Pick any performance in any city: their fans will sing back every word verbatim to not one, two, or even three singles, but at least six of their most well-known songs – if not the entire set-list. After that, the band packed up and moved out to Berlin to explore their shared love of darker, electronic influences on a less sunny evolution of the Rüfüs discography for ‘Bloom’. Their debut album was created beachside of their home town, Sydney, and captured their initial audience with the immersive and melodic sound heard on aptly titled songs like ‘Sundream’ and ‘Desert Night’. The group found their footing and emerged onto the scene while acts like Disclosure and Gorgon City were quickly establishing vocal house as a trend for kids still dewy-eyed for electronic music, laying the groundwork and building a fanbase for a slow-burning and prolific career and avoiding the curse of fizzling out early as a one-hit wonder. “They’re about to take their music and awareness to a whole new level.” “They’ve had time to hone their craft in the shadow,” Tong adds. Only now – some 250,000 tickets sold and several hundred worldwide shows later – have they finally paired up with a major label. Working with independent labels Sweat It Out and ODESZA’s Foreign Family, Rüfüs built a sturdy and loyal following with audiences that appreciated their role on a spectrum that bled across genres. If a band didn’t have a hit on the first album, they were usually dropped by the label, but Rüfüs found another way in the modern era.” The music business became much harder for bands that bridged dance and electronic music after 2000. “There are thousands of DJs, but not many Rüfüs. “They are still a rarity,” says Pete Tong, who regularly spins the group’s singles to high praise on BBC Radio 1.
Rüfüs Du Sol’s ability to capture audiences and make them dance, whether wielding instruments or a pair of CDJs, certainly doesn’t go unappreciated. They’re among the few acts to have played Coachella twice in a row, as a live act on the Gobi stage in 2016, and then doing a DJ set in 2017. Their home country of Australia has a track record in ‘electronic bands’ too, and like Cut Copy, The Presets, and Empire Of The Sun before them, Rüfüs comfortably straddle the two worlds of live and electronic music. The band has also amassed an impressive 400,000,000 streams across listening platforms. They’ve got a good track record: both their previous albums ‘ Atlas’ and ‘ Bloom’ reached stratospheric heights, with both going to No 1 in their native Australia and recent single ‘No Place’ topping the iTunes Electronic chart and Hype Machine chart on release. Tickets to their tours are already in high demand despite the fact that their third studio album ‘Solace’ has yet to reach the ears of the masses. It’s the next evolutionary stage for the group who’ve continuously toured since the release of their last album two years ago, gracing the likes of Coachella, Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, EXIT, CRSSD, Las Vegas’ Electric Daisy Carnival, Splendour In The Grass and more. Both shows sold out in a matter of minutes. A sprawling North American tour lies ahead, including three nights in a row at not one, but two iconic venues: New York’s Terminal 5 and The Shrine in Los Angeles. It’s time for the band to get moving again, and only the titanic itinerary in store surrounding their upcoming album could’ve convinced them to cut ties with the cosy nest they’ve created here. The crew is set to move out in two days’ time. Today, the house is alive with people who’ve gathered for a bittersweet celebration: it’s one part a birthday party for keyboardist Jon George, but also a farewell gathering to the house. Two houses down from a sleepy intersection sits a property dubbed ‘Rose Avenue’ by three-piece band Rüfüs Du Sol, who’ve called this place their own for the past year. Their third album ‘Solace’ looks like it will be the tipping point for a band Pete Tong says “are about to hit a whole new level”Ī few blocks away from the beach in Venice, California, the air feels crisp, sharp with an invisible shroud of ocean salt, just cool enough for a sunbeam upon bare shoulders to be warmly welcomed. Los Angeles-based Australian three-piece Rüfüs Du Sol are steadily becoming one of the world’s most popular live electronic acts, thanks to the heady euphoria of tracks like ‘ Sundream’ and ‘ You Were Right’.
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