By ThinkInElectronic / Thursday, January 09, 2014 / No comments /
Get to know the DJs of Ultra South Africa Goldfish
The secret is officially out. An electronic duo from the Southern-most tip of Africa have gone from one of Dance Music’s best kept secrets to an act tipped by industry tastemakers as the band to watch this year.
Their genre-defying mix of live instruments, House beats and searing live performances has seen Goldfish go from impromtu jams at a tiny beach club in Cape Town to headlining Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium, cracking a top 10 on the US iTunes Dance chart, a residency at Pacha Ibiza with David Guetta and DJ’s like Fedde le Grand knocking at their door to do remix their tracks. It’s almost hard to believe that not very long ago they were just Dom and Dave, two music students who lived a relatively chilled life of surfing and playing music in their home town Cape Town.
All that really did change when they decided to record an album. Not having a record deal or much money, they simply locked themselves in a bedroom...with a double bass, a saxophone and a couple of synths, recording their debut Caught In The Loop on their own. A charming dance record that received massive support from the international dance music scene, desperate for something fresh and new. Pete Tong even called it his Ibiza Poolside Album of the Summer.
The two guys quickly found themselves maintaining gruelling international tour schedule that saw them play sold-out shows from Amsterdam to Miami, from the Sydney Opera House to Sao Paulo, in-between still finding time to mix the covermount CD for DJ mag international, garnering a record-breaking 8 SAMA nominations, numerous number ones radio at home, as well as performances at Glastonbury, Sensation White, Ultra Festival Miami, 46664 and Get Loaded in the Park amongst others.
They even got their hands on a residency to die for; Friday night at Ibiza super-club Pacha. Here they developed their sound further and presented it on their second album Perceptions of Pacha. As no other album, Perceptions Of Pacha captures the carefree vibe of the magical island of Ibiza, with their track Fort Knox cracking the Top 10 on the US iTunes Dance Charts. Following that up with the SAMA award-winning album Get Busy Living featuring the smash Youtube hit video We come together that garnered millions of online views for it’s hilarious and ground breaking animation work that has become a Goldfish trademark.
With props coming from everyone from Dr Dre, Sebastian Ingrosso, Pete Tong, Sander Kleinenberg, Fedde Le Grand and Faithless, watch this space. The Re-invention of the DJ has arrived.
Dom Peters
Double Bass, Keyboards, Groove Box, Production.
Dom's music career began at age 6 when he made the Recorder First XI. His first actual electronic keyboard followed a few years later, and after a brief and regrettable "Roxette" phase, Dom discovered Jazz and never looked back, coupling a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Performance from UCT and a busy session musician schedule on piano, keyboards and double bass.
The beginnings of the idea of an electronic project began when he began programming tracks to take to band practice, frustrated that he couldn’t always verbalise what he was hearing inside his head to his band mates…and soon realized his passion for production.
Dave and Dom then hooked up on the concept of a live electronic duo on long trips to a regular Jazz gig. The name came about when Dave joked about Dom's legendary short term memory skills - able to remember vast amounts of irrelevant data, but clueless to where his car keys were. And thus began a match made in heaven. He is an obsessed surfer, a bit hey-shoo-wow, hates margarine and still has the alcohol tolerance of a mosquito.
David Poole
Tenor and Soprano Sax, Samplers, effects, mixing, Production, engineering.
Daves musical journey began with a sadistic violin teacher at age 6. A bit later he was put in a room with wall-to-wall instruments and told pick one. It turned out to be a sax. Fast forward a few years and he did his first gig age 13 with his rock band (which eventually became Dorp). After school he went to study Jazz at UCT, this is where he met his long time studio partner Emagics Logic (Audio recording and sequencing software) .In the studio with Dorp he spent more time behind the desk than in front of it.
All along James Brown and Jamiroquai had been infiltrating their way into his music in-between all the jazz and rock. This combined with his prolific Jazz band Breakfast Included eventually led to him and Dom joining forces in this Electronic/live Duo. With goldfish Dom and Dave get to explore the dark depths of electronic music production more extensively to create genre bending music.
Influences include: Kruder and Dorfmeister, Jamiroquai, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Joshua Redman, Moby, Winston Mankunku, Air, Rae and Christian, James brown.
Catch Goldfish playing at ULTRA SOUTH AFRICA 14/15 FEB 2014 more information here
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