RÜFÜS have made this post very easy and written us a nice little Novella about themselves, check this, Once upon a time, a long long time ago It all began on a stormy night..*flashback music*…..
RÜFÜS formed one rainy evening in the coastal town of Byron Bay home of the unemployed and one of the last pockets of Australia’s fading hippie culture. It was early autumn and Jon’s younger brother had brought Tyrone and a bunch of other friends up from Sydney to visit Jon in the beach pad he was renting in the Byron hillside.
During the week, Jon an audio production graduate and DJ/Producer with a number of remix credits to his name helped Swedish/Australian folk singer-‐songwriter Tyrone record some acoustic tracks he had been working on, and in exchange, Tyrone helped Jon write a bunch of hooks for some house numbers. It was a fortuitous meeting of two talented musicians.
On Tyrone’s last night in Byron, Jon’s bro and the rest of their guests were going to see a band playing in town, Jon didn’t go because he doesn’t like the rain, Tyrone didn’t go because he had a bank balance of $7.36; the legacy of an expensive week indulging in Byron’s hippie delights. Left alone in the house with no money, drinks or company the two of them decided to write some tunes together for the first time. While the rest of Jon’s party focused guests soaked up the Byron nightlife (and weather), Jon and Tyrone began creating the foundations to a bass driven melody with a unique chilled dancey groove. The guests returned home in the early hours of the following morning and were all blown away to hear the results of the late night studio session with an undeniable musical chemistry between the two making a special track that would later go on to form RÜFÜS’ popular dance floor filler, ’We Left.’
When Jon returned home to Sydney in the mid 2010, the two met up weekly writing and self-‐producing their self titled debut EP. They got the music out online and to Australian radio stations Triple J and Sydney’s FBi to a positive response both locally and internationally. People wanted live shows. Enter exciting drummer, James Hunt.
With James on board the duo became a band. They have since successfully launched their independent debut EP to a pumping room in Sydney (available on iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp and more from 01/01/11). While internationally there is a groundswell building that has seen French label, ’On the Fruit Records’ commission several high profile remixes of their tracks that will be released in Europe in early 2011. With a string of gigs over summer, the boys writing new material all the time and ears pricking up around the world, RÜFÜS are excited to see what the late nights and long days of 2011 will bring.
Riveting stuff, I had a cup of tea whilst reading that.In Kick ass fashion OTF recs are planning a club version of “We Left” with remixes by Symbolone (!!!OMFG), Go Go Bizkitt!, Broke One, Beaumont, Springflower, Monsieur Adi and Ride the Universe which will be out in a couple of months.
You can buy the EP now on itunes We Left (EP Preview) by RÜFÜS Paris Collides (EP Preview) by RÜFÜS RÜFÜS- Trent’s A Mess by RÜFÜS
