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n
electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...
duo of
Julian Hamilton Julian Thomas Hamilton (born September 1976) is an Australian singer-songwriter and keyboardist, who, with bandmate Kim Moyes, formed the electronica duo, The Presets in 2003. They have issued four studio albums, '' Beams'' (September 2005), '' ...
(vocals, keyboards) and
Kim Moyes Kimberley Isaac Moyes is an Australian musician, producer, mix engineer, composer, songwriter, DJ and one half of the Sydney-based electronica duo, The Presets (with Julian Hamilton). Note: n-lineversion established at White Room Electronic Pub ...
(drums, keyboards). Formed in 2003 and signed to
Modular Records Modular Recordings (known simply as Modular) is an Australian record label founded in 1998 by Steve Pavlovic that is currently owned by Universal Music Australia. It has released music from local artists such as Eskimo Joe, Ben Lee, The Avala ...
, The Presets released two EPs ('' Blow Up'', ''
Girl and the Sea ''Girl and the Sea'' is the second EP by Australian electronic dance music duo The Presets released on Modular Records on 1 November 2004. The EP reached No. 6 on the AIR charts and at No. 20 on the ARIA Hitseekers Charts. The vocals ...
'') in advance of their debut album, '' Beams'', released in 2005 to positive critical response. After two years of touring, including as the Australian support for
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, the band's 2008 release, '' Apocalypso'', debuted at number one on the
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, and went on to win six awards at ARIA Awards 2008, including Album of the Year. In 2009 Hamilton and Moyes won an APRA Award for Songwriters of the Year and another
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, this time for Best Dance Release for "Talk Like That". They released their third album, '' Pacifica'', in Australia in September 2012. It reached No. 3 on the
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. Their fourth album, '' Hi Viz'', was released in June 2018. The Presets are known for their dynamic live shows. Aside from the Presets' extensive performance work, the duo has remixed tracks for several other artists including
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,
Silverchair Silverchair were an Australian Rock music, rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, New South Wales, with Ben Gillies on drums, Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars, and Chris Joannou on bass guitar. The group got thei ...
and
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. The Presets are recognized as key players in the dance music explosion in Australia in the late 2000s.


History

The Presets' founders,
Julian Hamilton Julian Thomas Hamilton (born September 1976) is an Australian singer-songwriter and keyboardist, who, with bandmate Kim Moyes, formed the electronica duo, The Presets in 2003. They have issued four studio albums, '' Beams'' (September 2005), '' ...
and
Kim Moyes Kimberley Isaac Moyes is an Australian musician, producer, mix engineer, composer, songwriter, DJ and one half of the Sydney-based electronica duo, The Presets (with Julian Hamilton). Note: n-lineversion established at White Room Electronic Pub ...
met in 1995 at the
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where they were both studying classical music. They shared an interest in 1980s pop music and became members of the Sydney-based electronic group, Prop, with Jeremy Barnett on
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s, Hamilton on keyboards, Moyes on
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, David Symes on bass guitar and Jared Underwood on drums. This group released two albums, ''Small Craft, Rough Sea'' in 2001 and ''Cook Cut Damage Destroy'' in 2003. Hamilton and Moyes broke off from Prop when they
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ed a track, "Magnetic Highway", with "harder electronic edges" under the name The Presets.


2003–2004: Early EPs

The Presets formed in Sydney in 2003 with Hamilton on vocals, keyboards and production and Moyes on drums, keyboards, production and programming. The band recorded a demo which drew the attention of
Modular Records Modular Recordings (known simply as Modular) is an Australian record label founded in 1998 by Steve Pavlovic that is currently owned by Universal Music Australia. It has released music from local artists such as Eskimo Joe, Ben Lee, The Avala ...
. They signed with the label and released a seven-track extended play, '' Blow Up'', in November.
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(
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) provided guitar work and co-wrote the track, "Cookie" with the duo. The EP was favourably compared to work by
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,
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and Cabaret Voltaire. The Presets supported the EP with gigs in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane; and issued a
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, "Beat On / Beat Off", on Rex Records. In November 2004, as a follow up, a second EP was issued, the five-track ''
Girl and the Sea ''Girl and the Sea'' is the second EP by Australian electronic dance music duo The Presets released on Modular Records on 1 November 2004. The EP reached No. 6 on the AIR charts and at No. 20 on the ARIA Hitseekers Charts. The vocals ...
''. Its title track was eventually featured on ''
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'' – the United States teen drama TV series in March 2006. Tim Colman of ''
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'' described them as having "successfully fused pop, techno, electro and rock. They've even stripped the live rig down to drums, keyboards, microphones and an iPod." In the same month the duo ventured out on their first interstate shows, performing as part of a
Modular Records Modular Recordings (known simply as Modular) is an Australian record label founded in 1998 by Steve Pavlovic that is currently owned by Universal Music Australia. It has released music from local artists such as Eskimo Joe, Ben Lee, The Avala ...
night which also featured
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, Colder, and BRAINS (
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in DJ Mode).


2005–2006: ''Beams''

The Presets released their debut album, '' Beams'' in Australia on 12 September 2005. The first commercially released single from the album was "
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", backed with non-album tracks "Truth and Lies" and "Midnight Boundary", as well a remix of "Girl and the Sea" by
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. The UK version of the single (which appeared in early 2006) featured remixes by
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and
Van She Van She are an electropop band formed in 2002 in Sydney, Australia, with Matt Van Schie (pronounced Van Ski) on bass guitar/vocals, Tomek Archer on drums/sequencer, Michael Di Francesco on synth/guitar and Nicholas Routledge on vocals/guitar. ...
. A remix of the song by French DJ, Lifelike, was commissioned in 2008 to feature in a
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commercial in Australia. The Presets played their first shows in the United Kingdom and Europe, opening as special guests for fellow Australian band
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as well as two shows of their own in London. Throughout the second half of 2005 the duo toured Australia nationally several times, playing shows with
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,
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and
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, and their own headline tour in October. 2005 also saw the band make their first Australian festival appearances, DJing at
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, Byron Bay and Come Together Festival in Sydney, as well as closing off the year playing at
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in Lorne, Australia. The Presets kicked off 2006 with their first-ever national Australian festival run, playing in the Boiler Room for the
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. The first half 2006 saw The Presets begin to promote their music more heavily in the UK, Europe and the US. They opened for Australian band
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on several UK dates in February 2006. They then travelled over to the US in March to play their first New York shows before a handful of showcases at
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, Austin, Texas and on to Miami for
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. It was in New York that
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saw the band play and subsequently licensed '' Beams'' to his label
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for a European release mid-2006. The duo returned to the UK and Ireland as special guest of
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on several dates, before heading back over to the US to open for
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on an extensive national tour. "Down Down Down" received an official release in the UK with remixes by Digitalism,
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and
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(the song has previously been a promo only single in Australia in 2005). The next single released for the band was "I Go Hard, I Go Home", again released in the UK only with remixes by
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, The Juan Maclean an
Ascii Disko
As many of the mixes of "Are You the One?", "Down Down Down" and "I Go Hard, I Go Home" had not been readily available in the US, Modular Records released ''Resets'', a bonus disc available only with '' Beams'' in limited quantities. It was subsequently released physically and digitally in Australia at the end of the year. The band returned to Australia mid-year for Infinity 2006, presented by Modular Records featuring The Presets and special guests Digitalism. The tour sold out everywhere and was met with ecstatic reviews. The tour was followed by a triumphant set at Splendour in the Grass, with
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describing the audience's reaction: "It's been a long time since I've seen a crowd go as wild as this." The touring schedule continued with a run of club dates across the US summer, including playing
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in San Francisco, then hopping over to Europe for more club dates. The latter half of the year saw the band tour extensively with The Rapture in the UK and the US, including an appearance in New York at Webster Hall as part of
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. After more than four months away The Presets returned to cap off the year, playing
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in Sydney and
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in Victoria.


2007

A major turning point for The Presets was their 2007
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Shows. Playing the penultimate slot in the Boiler Room saw the band play to their biggest audiences to date. inthemix described their set as "Pure class! The Presets well and truly earned their promotion up the timetable from last years early afternoon scorcher. The Aussie duo have only improved from a further 12 months of relentless touring and performed with the charisma of seasoned pros." March saw a quick visit to North America with a handful of club dates and appearances at
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and Miami Winter Music Festival. In April 2007, the Presets released another single only distributed in the UK, "Truth & Lies", which featured two songs and originally appeared as a B-side to "Are You The One?" in Australia. Around the same time the band spent a few weeks at a farm just outside Bryon Bay, where they began work on what would become their second album. In the middle of the year the band relocated to Berlin for several months. During this time they played across Europe on the festival circuit, including
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in Spain and Global Gathering in the UK. On the way home they performed at Modular Stage at
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in Japan. Back in Sydney they continued to work in earnest on the album. By November the bulk of the album was completed. In December, The Presets performed as the main support act for
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during their NeverEverLand tour around Australia. The tour proved highly successful with almost 35,000 people attending the Sydney show alone. Coinciding with the NeverEverLand Tour, The Presets released " My People", the lead single from their second album '' Apocalypso''. Paired with a groundbreaking video by Kris Moyes and several remixes, the song was added instantly to the
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network, and saw commercial radio networks in Australia give the band their first airplay. Overseas, "My People" kickstarted a renewed interest in the band, becoming ''
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''s Pick of the Week, who likened the song to "the brutality of Aussie rules football ..in a good way, obviously."Clarke, B (20 June 2008)
"The Presets, Apocalypso"
''The Guardian''. Retrieved 5 September 2013.


2008

''Apocalypso'' was issued on 12 April 2008, which debuted at number-one on the ARIA Albums Chart and remained in the top 50 for 63 weeks. It achieved the
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number-one spot for several weeks. By 2009 it was certified triple platinum (shipment of 210,000 units) in Australia. ''
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'' described the album as "a giant leap forward ..Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes have sharpened their pop-poisoned claws and dug them deep into their dark-hued techno." Throughout 2008 the band performed at several festivals throughout Europe and the US including
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in The Netherlands,
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in the UK,
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in Ireland, Exit Festival in Serbia, Famufest in the Czech Republic, Festival Pantiero inFrance, Get Loaded in the UK,
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in the UK,
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in the US,
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in the US,
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in Belgium, Lovebox Weekender in the UK, Monolith Festival in the US,
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in Norway,
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in the UK and V Festival in the UK. In May 2008, the Presets released an EP, single and a remixed edition of " This Boy's in Love", with the song of the same name still being played on the radio before its release. In October, the band won six
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at the 2008 ceremony: Producer of the Year, Best Artwork (artwork by Jonathan Zawada), Best Video ("My People", directed by Kris Moyes), Best Dance Release, Best Group and Album of the Year. They became the first electronic music group to receive the award for Album of the Year. In December, ''Apocalypso'' was awarded the J Award for Australian Album of the Year. The Presets appeared in Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2008 three times, with "Yippiyo-Ay" at number 56, "This Boy's in Love" at number 8, and "Talk Like That" at number 6.


2009–2011

The Presets played at the festival
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, which made its way around Australia in February 2009. In the following month, The Presets performed for
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at the
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.
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, which took place on 14 March 2009 was a benefit concert for victims of the Victorian bushfire crisis and the Queensland floods. The concert welcomed 80,000 punters into the
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. The AU Review described the Presets' performance as "the moment that will define Sound Relief." The Presets "tore through favourites such as " My People", "Yippiyo-ay" and "This Boy's in Love" providing a moment of pure euphoria". Their performance was enhanced by the thunderstorm overhead showering down over the 80,000 person crowd. In April, the Presets performed at
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and in May the duo embarked on their national tour of Australia. Along with their support act
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, the band performed for around 70,000 people across Australia. At the 2009 APRA Awards in June, Kim Moyes and Julian Hamilton won Songwriter of the Year, "Talk Like That" won the 2009
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and "If I Know You" won the UK Music Video Award for Best Dance Video (directed by Eva Husson.) On New Years Day 2010, the Presets played at the Sydney dance music festival, Field Day, and on 3 January the duo headlined the Summadayze Festival in Perth. In May, the Presets released a remix of
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's song "
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". The band also remixed "Closer", the opening track for
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's fourth album
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. The Presets' remix of the song "Closer" went on to feature as a bonus track on
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's fifth album
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, which was released in October 2010. In February 2011, the Presets headlined the MS Festival at Inveresk (Launceston) and in March they performed at
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, which took place in five separate sights around Australia. They also played at
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in April for the second time since 2009. During the same month, the Presets performed as one of the headlining acts at Festival Estereo Picnic in Bogota, Colombia. The Presets have publicly expressed dismay that journalists often rely on the band's
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page for research purposes. Hamilton stated in a ''
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'' interview: "We always get the same six questions. We should put on our Wiki page 'we eallyhate it when journalists check this page to ask us questions.'"


2012

In 2012 the band released the singles "Youth in Trouble" (June 2012) and "Ghosts" (August 2012) in advance of their album '' Pacifica''. "Ghosts" featured on the official soundtrack of
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' '' FIFA 13''. The Presets' third studio album '' Pacifica'' was released on 7 September 2012. The album received domestic and international acclaim. ''Pacifica'' was the
ARIA Charts The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the offici ...
Album of the Week following its release in September 2012. ARIA described the album's stand out tracks: "'Fall'-- Julian Hamilton's vocals at their haunting best, 'Fast Seconds' will be mind-blowing live and 'Promises' a summer anthem with New Order flavours." Australian publications ''
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'', ''
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'', and the ''
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'' also labeled ''Pacifica'' Album of the Week. In an article review on ''Pacifica'', the
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stated "it's fair to say that on ''Pacifica'', Moyes and Hamilton have stepped up and out, unafraid and keen to test their boundaries." ''Pacifica'' was nominated for the 2012
J Award The J Awards are an annual series of Australian music awards that were established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's youth-focused radio station Triple J and which are judged by the music and on-air teams from radio stations Triple J, ...
for Australian Album of the Year. Triple J described ''Pacifica'' as "an album that constantly surprises- while still proving the Presets know how to rip up a dance floor." In October 2012, the Presets performed at the
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in New York. The
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is a music event, which spans over 5 days in 80 different nightclubs across New York City. The Presets performed at the same festival 6 years prior in 2006. They performed at the
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in San Francisco in the same month and headlined the dance festival
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, which took place in five cities across Australia in September and October. The Presets were featured in the Hottest 100 of 2012 twice. The single "Promises" was voted in at number 70 while "Ghosts" appeared at number 52. The Presets won Best Live Act in the inthemix Awards for 2012 and the single "Ghosts" was awarded Single of the Year (readers vote) in the
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Awards.


2013–present

In celebration of Australia Day 2013, the Presets performed at the
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on the lawns of Parliament House on 25 January. In February, the band embarked on their national tour of Australia to promote '' Pacifica''. In March the duo played at the Snowball Festival in Colorado, as well as the Sasquatch Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington in May. The Presets also performed at Dark Mofo in Hobart,
SXSW Music Festival South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Te ...
in the US,
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in Byron Bay, Australia, and they headlined the Mardi Gras Festival in Sydney, Australia. The Presets were nominated for Best Live Act in the inthemix Awards for 2013 and in the
Triple J Hottest 100 The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual music listener poll hosted by the publicly-funded, national Australian youth radio station, Triple J. Members of the public are invited to vote for their favourite Australian and alternative music of the ...
of the last 20 years " My People" was voted in at number 77. The countdown, hosted by radio station Triple J, had 940,000 voters from Australia and around the world. The countdown was a means of narrowing down the top songs released between 1993 and 2012. The Presets were one of 29 Australian artists, which were recognised in the countdown. Two days before
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ringleaders
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and
Myuran Sukumaran Myuran Sukumaran (17 April 1981 – 29 April 2015) was an Australian who was convicted in Indonesia of drug trafficking as a member of the Bali Nine. In 2005, Sukumaran was arrested in a room at the Melasti Hotel in Kuta with eight others. Poli ...
were executed in Indonesia for drug trafficking, Kim Moyes condemned the
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via
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and called for their fans to "stop listening to urmusic" if they supported the then-impending executions of the Bali Nine pair. He went on to reiterate that their 2007 single " My People" was inspired by the plight of asylum seekers during the
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era. The duo later apologised for "getting personal" and posted a tribute after Chan and Sukumaran were executed along with six other prisoners on 29 April 2015.


Members

* Julian Hamilton – vocals, keyboards * Kim Moyes – drums, keyboards


Discography

* '' Beams'' (2005) * '' Apocalypso'' (2008) * '' Pacifica'' (2012) * '' Hi Viz'' (2018)


Awards and nominations


ARIA Awards

The
Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austra ...
(commonly known as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, presented by the
Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing th ...
(ARIA). The Presets have received seventeen nominations between 2006 and 2018, of which they have won seven. , - , rowspan="2",
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, , ''Beams'' , , Best Dance Release , , , - , "Are You the One?" (Directed by
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), , Best Video , , , - , rowspan="8",
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, , ''Apocalypso'' , ,
Album of the Year Album of the Year, often abbreviated to AOTY, may refer to: Awards * ARIA Award for Album of the Year, Australia * Brit Award for British Album of the Year, UK * Grammy Award for Album of the Year, US * Juno Award for Album of the Year, CA * Lati ...
, , , - , ''Apocalypso'' , , Best Dance Release , , , - , ''Apocalypso'' , , Best Group , , , - , ''Apocalypso'' (
Julian Hamilton Julian Thomas Hamilton (born September 1976) is an Australian singer-songwriter and keyboardist, who, with bandmate Kim Moyes, formed the electronica duo, The Presets in 2003. They have issued four studio albums, '' Beams'' (September 2005), '' ...
, Kim Moyes) , ,
Producer of the Year The Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical is an honor presented to record producers for quality non-classical music at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in ...
, , , - , ''Apocalypso'' , , Best Cover Art (Jonathan Zawada) , , , - , "My People" (directed by Kris Moyes) , , Best Video , , , - , "My People" , , Single of the Year , , , - , ''Apocalypso'' , , Engineer of the Year (Scott Horscroft) , , , - , rowspan="2",
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, , "Talk Like That" , , Best Dance Release , , , - , ''Apocalypso'' , , Highest Selling Album , , , - ,
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, , ''Pacifica'' , , Best Dance Release , , , - , rowspan="2",
2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
, , "No Fun" , , Best Dance Release , , , - , The National Tour , , Best Australian Live Act , , , - , rowspan="2",
2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...
, , "Do What You Want" (directed by Kris Moyes) , , Best Video , , , - , ''Hi Viz'' , , Best Cover Art (Jonathan Zawada) , , , -


APRA Awards

The APRA Music Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually. Songwriter of the Year is voted by APRA's Board of Writer and Publisher Directors rewarding the songwriter who has recorded the most impressive body of work in the previous year. ! , - , rowspan="2",
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, ,
Kim Moyes Kimberley Isaac Moyes is an Australian musician, producer, mix engineer, composer, songwriter, DJ and one half of the Sydney-based electronica duo, The Presets (with Julian Hamilton). Note: n-lineversion established at White Room Electronic Pub ...
and
Julian Hamilton Julian Thomas Hamilton (born September 1976) is an Australian singer-songwriter and keyboardist, who, with bandmate Kim Moyes, formed the electronica duo, The Presets in 2003. They have issued four studio albums, '' Beams'' (September 2005), '' ...
, , Songwriters of the Year , , , - , "This Boy's in Love" (Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes) , , Dance Work of the Year , , , , , - , rowspan="2",
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, , "If I Know You" (Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes) , , rowspan="2", Dance Work of the Year , , , , rowspan="2", , - , "Talk Like That" (Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes , , , - ,
2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
, "Youth in Trouble" (Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes) , Song of the Year , , , - ,
2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
, , "Promises" (Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes) , , Dance Work of the Year , , , ,


The Australian Music Prize

The
Australian Music Prize The Australian Music Prize (often shortened to the AMP) is an annual award of $30,000 given to an Australian band or solo artist in recognition of the merit of an album released during the year of award. The award was made by Australian Music Pri ...
(The AMP) is an annual award of $30,000 given to an Australian band or solo artist in recognition of the merit of an album released during the year of award. , - ,
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, , ''Apocalypso'' , , Australian Album of the Year , , , - ,
2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
, , ''Pacifica'' , , Australian Album of the Year , , , - ,
2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...
, , ''Hi Viz'' , , Australian Album of the Year , ,


J Awards

The
J Award The J Awards are an annual series of Australian music awards that were established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's youth-focused radio station Triple J and which are judged by the music and on-air teams from radio stations Triple J, ...
is an award given by Australian youth radio station
Triple J Triple J (stylised in all lowercase) is a government-funded, national Australian Radio in Australia, radio station intended to appeal to listeners of alternative music, which began broadcasting in January 1975. The station also places a greate ...
to Australian Album of the Year. , - , rowspan="2",
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, , ''Apocalypso'' , , Australian Album of the Year , , , - , "My People" , , Australian Music Video of the Year , , , - ,
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, , ''Pacifica'' , , Australian Album of the Year , ,


Helpmann Awards

The
Helpmann Awards The Helpmann Awards are accolades for live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Live Performance Australia (LPA) since 2001. The annual awards recognise achievements in the disciplines of musical t ...
is an awards show, celebrating live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group ''Live Performance Australia'' since 2001. Note: 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the
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. ! , - ,
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,
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featuring The Presets , Helpmann Award for Best Australian Contemporary Concert , , , -


FBi SMAC Awards

Every year, FBi brings together the finest creative talents Sydney has to offer. The
FBi SMAC Awards FBi (call sign: 2FBI) station is an independent, not-for-profit community radio in Sydney, Australia. FBi places a heavy emphasis on local emerging music: it has a policy that at least 50 per cent of its music content is to be Australian, of wh ...
recognise the hard working and talented people who have contributed something special to Sydney's creative culture: be it music, theatre, visual art, film or food. , -
2008
2008 , , ''Apocalypso'' , , Record of the Year , ,


National Live Music Awards

The
National Live Music Awards The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) are a broad recognition of Australia's diverse and successful live industry, celebrating the diversity and success of the Australian live scene – recognising the best vocal talents and musicians alongside ...
(NLMAs) are a broad recognition of Australia's diverse live industry, celebrating the success of the Australian live scene. The awards commenced in 2016. , - ,
National Live Music Awards of 2018 The National Live Music Awards of 2018 are the third National Live Music Awards. The event took place on 6 December 2018. The event moved its gala event to Brisbane – following events in Sydney and Melbourne in the last two years. The 2018 ev ...
, The Presets , Live Electronic Act (or DJ) of the Year , , -


Rolling Stone Australia Awards

The
Rolling Stone Australia Awards The Rolling Stone Australia Awards are awarded annually in January or February by the Australian edition of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine for outstanding contributions to popular culture in the previous year. The awards initially commenced in 201 ...
are awarded annually in January or February by the Australian edition of ''
Rolling Stone ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first kno ...
'' magazine for outstanding contributions to popular culture in the previous year. , - , 2012 , , "Ghosts" , , Single of the Year (Readers' Vote) , ,


UK Music Video Awards

The UK Music Video Awards is an annual celebration of creativity, technical excellence and innovation in music video and moving image for music. , - ,
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, , "If I Know You" , , Best Dance Music Video , ,


In the Mix Awards

, -
2006
, , "Are You the One?" , , Best Video (Kris Moyes) , , , -
2012
, , The Presets , , Best Live Act , , , -
2013
, , The Presets , , Best Live Act , ,


Faster Louder Festival Awards

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2008
, , The Presets , , Best Local Festival Act , ,


GQ Australia Men of the Year Awards

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2008
, , The Presets , , Band of the Year , ,


References


External links

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