The Presets

The Presets are an Australian electronic music duo of Julian Hamilton (vocals, keyboards) and Kim Moyes (drums, keyboards). Formed in 2003 and signed to Modular Records, The Presets released two EPs (Blow Up, Girl and the Sea) 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 Daft Punk, the band's 2008 release, Apocalypso, debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart, 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 ARIA Award, 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 ARIA Albums Chart. 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 Kings of Leon, Silverchair and Lenny Kravitz. The Presets are recognised as key players in the dance music explosion in Australia in the late 2000s.

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More Than Meets The Eye

Kim Moyes gets insulted when our writer mentions a dubstep influence.

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The Presets' theMusic.com.au Interview - Part Two

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The Presets Land In US Charts

Pacifica cracks the Electronic and Heatseeker rankings

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WATCH: Parklife Headliners The Presets On Being Casual

Part one of our video interview with the Aussie electro kings is online now.

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The Presets' theMusic.com.au Interview - Part One

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Album Review: The Presets - Pacifica

It’s not bad at all, really. Just different. This reviewer asks that, if you seek it out, persevere past your first impressions. It’s definitely a grower.

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Album Review: The Presets - Pacifica

All hail the originality of these guys; even if you are not a dance or electronic fan, this album again forces you to respect the recipe of inventiveness from which this is made.

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Party Music

“We were painfully aware of the expectation that we needed to fulfill and it made it real difficult at times. Because we’d often cock-block ourselves and it took a while for us to say, ‘Hang on a second we need to just do something, we need to do what we’ve always done and just be true to ourselves’...And this is the new era for us.”

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Album Review: The Presets - Pacifica

Pacifica may not be as daring as Apocalypso but it is everything we have come to expect from The Presets – brave, bold and progressive.

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The Presets - Ghosts (Official Video)

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