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Rüfüs Du Sol, Dom Dolla, Flume, Fisher: inside Australian dance music’s global boom
With Grammy wins, Coachella sets and sold-out tours, Australia’s electronic artists have won millions of worldwide fans. Is it dumb luck – or is there something in the water?
Against a stark reality for Australian music since the start of Covid ( no new local releases from 2023 made Aria’s 2023 end-of-year top 100 charts), the global success of Rüfüs Du Sol and others like Dom Dolla, Fisher and Confidence Man is a hopeful counter-narrative. Having made a buzzy debut on Boiler Room featuring a host of her own radiant house productions alongside snippets from the Aboriginal History Archive, Rona is attuned to the daily struggles of emerging electronic artists. “ Where value is placed more on streams, likes and followers than on the actual art, it can be incredibly exhausting,” she writes over email from London, where she’s working in the studio with Flight Facilities’ and Confidence Man’s go-to mixer Ewan Pearson.
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