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I went to Joy Orbison and all I got was a great sense of joy, good music, and fun times
I went to Joy Orbison and all I got was a great sense of joy, good music, and fun times

Walking past the slightly uncanny midnight pickleball league in a mostly asleep Entertainment Quarter, I wondered if anyone else was aware of the musical significance of what was going to happen inside Liberty Hall. Joy Orbison, the London-born and based DJ and producer, was about to play his first show in Australia. I reached Liberty Hall, pretty set in my conviction that there wasn’t a good chance many pickleball players knew about Joy Orbison. I was pleasantly and incredibly surprised

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ReviewsChina Meldrumcriticism, music, electronic music, Dj
True Nostalgia: PULP goes to salute
True Nostalgia: PULP goes to salute

At the bottom line, salute rejected the pretension that seems to dominate much commercial dance music (read: the uninspired spoken word poetry of Fred Again). Eschewing these pseudo-philosophies of house heavy hitters, at the heart of TRUE MAGIC is a magical world of nostalgia, joy, and most of all, good old fun. Not only a testament to the varied influences upon salute’s signature sound, but the many influences that shape our first encounters with dance music.

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Reviews, MusicMia Retallackmusic, dj