''Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra'' is the first live album by Australian electronic duo

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with the

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. The album was recorded live at the Annual Southern Airlines concert at the Melbourne Festival in 2015. The album was released in December 2015. The album did not enter the ARIA Albums Chart, but peaked at number 19 on the ARIA Digital Albums chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2016, the album won the ARIA Award for

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. The award prompted controversy from The Australian's Matthew Westwood, The Sydney Morning Herald's Bernard Zuel and Tone Deaf's Greg Moskovitch and amongst the Australian classical community, questioning how an electronic duo were nominated in this category. Toby Chadd, manager of ABC Classics, told ''

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'': "The album consists of Flight Facilities' original electronic music with the accompaniment of an orchestra. It feels like something is potentially wrong with the ARIA system to allow an album whose credentials are clearly in no way classical to win the classical award. It has the potential to damage the integrity of that award." Hugo Gruzman of Flight Facilities said "We're stoked to be nominated for Best Classical Album a year after being nominated for Best Dance Album—we don't know how but thanks very much." An

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representative informed ''The Australian'' that the "creative collaboration" between Flight Facilities and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra met eligibility criteria for the award and the winner was determined by a "specialist classic music ARIA judging panel".

Track listing

# "Intro" (featuring Reggie Watts) – 2:07 # "Got to Have" by James Curd (Flight Facilities Remix) – 8:42 # "Foreign Language" (featuring

George Maple Jess Higgs (born 25 May 1989), known professionally as George Maple, is an Australian born, LA based recording artist, songwriter and record producer. In 2017, Maple released her own debut album, ''Lover'' which debuted at #2 on the Australia ...

) – 3:59 # "Waking Bliss" (featuring Owl Eyes) – 4:10 # "With You" (featuring Kurt Kristen) – 4:52 # "Sunshine" (featuring Reggie Watts) – 4:52 # "Dream in the Desert" (featuring Broadhurst) by The Lowbrows (Flight Facilities Remix) – 7:55 # " Two Bodies" (featuring

Emma Louise Emma Louise Lobb (born 16 July 1991), who performs as Emma Louise, is an Australian indie pop singer-songwriter from Cairns. She is best known for her 2011 debut single "Jungle". Two studio albums, '' Vs Head vs Heart'' (March 2013) and '' Supe ...

) – 6:03 # "Heart Attack" (featuring Owl Eyes) – 6:04 # "I Didn't Believe" (featuring Owl Eyes) – 3:33 # "Merimbula" – 4:02 # " Crave You" (featuring Owl Eyes) – 6:01 # "Apollo" (featuring

Katie Noonan Katie Anne Noonan (born 2 May 1977) is an Australian singer-songwriter. In addition to a successful solo career encompassing opera, jazz, pop, rock and dance, she was the singer in the band George and remains the singer in the band Elixir; perf ...

) – 4:43 # " Clair de Lune" (featuring Owl Eyes) – 7:39 # "Shine a Light" by The C90s with Touch Sensitive, Surahn, Kurt Kristen, Owl Eyes, Katie Noonan, George Maple, Reggie Watts and Emma Louise (Flight Facilities Remix) – 6:26

Charts

References

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