THE PRESETS: LIVE AT BOWERY BALLROOM

For you hoofers who haven’t heard this Aussie electro-pop new age synth outfit, the Presets are one band you positively need to see live. In fact, Discosalt commands you. The duo, consisting of Julian Hamilton on vocals, keyboards, clicks and beeps and Kim Moyes on drums, packed a very strong party bag of tight dance music into even tighter jeans last Thursday, June 5, 2008, at The Bowery Ballroom.

Julian goaded the crowd on, pushing buttons, slamming keyboards, howling and dancing around the stage like an entrancing epileptic new wave robot from 1983. And the crowd took the bait, dancing, jumping, singing along, crowd surfing and pouring as much ceremonial sweat into the observance as the performance. Highlights included “Steamworks”, “Kicking and screaming”, “A New Sky” and the anthem, “Are you the one”,all of which liberated so much energy, I wanted to quit my day job… and just dance. You will too, and you should.

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