I had the pleasure to attend the Fuse Festival last week in Adelaide. 2 days and 2 nights of workshops, talks and gigs. Meetings, negotiations, mentorships, roundtables, dinners, beers, wine, circus tents, The Adeliade Fringe Festival, The Adelaide Festival the Australian Performing Arts Market... Adelaide's a vibin place at this time of the year, it certainly didn't leave that much time for sleep, but whatever... who am I to complain? It was rad and I was lucky to be there.

This blog is going to feature some of the incredible live music we saw at the festival...

So, first cab of the rank is The Swiss... You'll have to excuse me for not being a dance aficionado but last time I heard something this groovy, something that made me want dance like this was at Meredith Music Festival watching Henrik Schwartz (he's a legend, an innovator, a master of original house music... apparantly, ahem...). That's a big compliment. The time before that, that I had that much fun listening to music like this was... ummmm... never!

The Swiss won a trip to The Great Escape in Brighton, England after playing a deft set of live dance music and being the highlight of The Fuse's 'Explode' showcase. It ain't as bombastic as many of their Australian dance music contemporaries, in fact sometimes they're deliciously restrained. There's real class on display here.

The clip is kind of hypnotic... kind of silly, not all that subtle but there's no doubt that it works.