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The Presets

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Biography

The Presets are a pair of avant-garde Aussies who, while forging a musical path that wouldn't be unfamiliar to acts like Daft Punk, Nine Inch Nails, and The Faint, don't mind dragging disco along for the ride. Julian Hamilton (production, keyboards, vocals) and Kimberley Moyes (production, drums, programming) met in the early '90s as students at Sydney's Conservatorium of Music. Both were there to study classical music, but as they delved into the great composers, neither could forget an extracurricular love of '80s pop: The Smiths, Pet Shop Boys, Björk, New Order. So instead of abandoning their passion for music's lighter side, they bonded over it, composing music at school by day and dancing to house by night. Eventually, they joined the band Prop together, cranking out several albums of experimental instrumental music that won them critical plaudits across Australia. The Presets were born as an offshoot of Prop -- when Hamilton and Moyes wanted to remix a track with harder electronic edges, they did so under the The Presets moniker.

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Top Tracks

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  1.  
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    I'm here with all of my people
    Locked up with all of my people
    So let me hear you scream if you're with me
    So let's head in your room lovely
    I'll follow all around the world for you
    My People - (4:27)  -  32,493 plays
  2.  
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    My, how you've grown
    I think I'll call you on the telephone
    And tell you all the things that I've been missing
    Turn out the lights
    Where we're going we don't need 'em tonight
    Talk Like That - (3:40)  -  25,781 plays
  3.  
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    Clever lier, fooling us all, never thought I'd work it out
    How could I have known it was ever about you boy?
    Now there's nothing to say, there's no words and we're not talking anyhow
    You must have known I was never to doubt you boy
    If it was so fine, it was so good, oh you're unbelievable
    If I Know You - (4:28)  -  26,695 plays
  4.  
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    I stole the keys to the skies
    We'll leave this place for the final time
    No crying words, no goodbyes
    Yes tonight we're burning all the tough times
    Drown all the fears that we had
    This Boy's In Love - (4:12)  -  26,608 plays
  5.  
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    Tonight the
    Tonight the hills are watching her
    As she runs towards the sea
    Yeah, she runs so she be free
    And of all the friends and enemies
    Girl And The Sea - (4:45)  -  22,853 plays
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