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Bastian's Happy Flight
Genre: Dance, Pop
Region: Perth, WA
Members: Will Slade - vocals,synth, Jack Doepel - synth, Troy Mutton - Drums, Alex Dew - guitar, Tom Allum - drums & percussion
Sounds Like: Ariel Pink, Dam Funk, Cut copy
Influences: Disco, Boogie

NEW EP COMING SOON

Bastian’s Happy Flight are a band of electronic musicians/visionists taking a genuine adoration of the hitherto pinnacle of pop and injecting it back into itself. Despite the name, there is no sly wink here nor is it an 80s pastiche going after the nostalgia dollar, it’s a raw testament to the communication of mood and humanity through machines.
With Australia 88 vocals atop Euro 82 production, the resultant palette is a socio-circumnavigational trip into the accomplishment of what pop should be: breezy and carefree topnotes, mids split 50/50 between ravenous passion and midnight melancholy with a flagrant urge to dance punctuating the drydown. Lavish and direct, it’s what you make of it but what you make if it is inevitably likely to be along the lines of lazer-soul, boogie and pre-house with inflections of Learjet interiors and Minneapolis from when you would have wanted to be there.

The best part of all of the above is that it’s all done live on the spot by actual bandmembers fuelled by an impulse to rule. There are no laptops or iPod jack-ins in effect, just five guys getting stuck in.

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Played on digital radio Come for the early (stay for the late)
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Played on triple j My Love's (just not good enough)
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Played on triple j Played on digital radio RELATIONSHIPDENIAL
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Come for the early (stay for the late)
rating:  4/5
oh yeh boys lovin this one , party party- great title too - i am always the last to leave a gathering
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RELATIONSHIPDENIAL
rating:  4/5
this song stays in my head for hours - love it and man can you hit those high notes!!
triplej



RELATIONSHIPDENIAL
rating:  3/5
Ha! A very funny, funky tune. Like Scissor Sisters and Bee Gees and maybe some Hall & Oates?
triplej



RELATIONSHIPDENIAL
rating:  4/5
This is incredibly smooth stuff and it's so well produced as I've come to expect from the Bastian boys. It fits somewhere between Scissor Sisters and...
triplej


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