Biography
HEAT LIKE ME
Blending eight synthesizers, four former rock musicians with a penchant for dance music and multiple retro 70’s instruments is New Zealand electronica act, Heat Like Me.
Forming in early 2007, Heat Like Me musicians Brenny O’Kane, Darren Inwood, James Goldsmith and Rachel Service began performing in their hometown of Wellington, after bonding through a mutual love of Daft Punk and vintage synthesisers, to an overwhelming positive response from the local and international music community.
After their first performance, the group were one of only a handful of musicians invited to showcase at the RadioActive 30th anniversary party. Weeks after their Radio Active live to air performance, they were supporting Australian electronica act, Sneaky Sound System to a sell out crowd, and shortly thereafter picked up the attention of notable club night, Electroluxxe, who then invited them to perform alongside BFM award winning UK acid house trio Pig Out. Influential dance music site The Fast Life recently dubbed the groups sound as music that “you will be gripped by immediately and the whole world should know about.”
The foursome bring different elements to the groups sound, which include rock’n’roll, metal, industrial electronica, pop, funk, acid and house music. They are largely inspired by a combination of electro, funk and early nineties Chicago house, including Add (N) to X, Blondie, Chromeo, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Digitalism, Devo, Justice, Kraftwerk, MSTRKRFT, The Rapture, New Order, Soulwax, The Knife and The Faint.
For four self confessed ‘music geeks’, Heat Like Me say they have been overwhelmed and surprise with the positive reaction to their sound. After all, it was James who was drinking one Friday night with his mate Brenny, when he pulled out a black Yamaha vintage analogue synthesiser to make Brenny jealous. Brenny immediately said: "we’ve gotta start a band". James and Brenny then persuaded mutual friends and musicians Darren and Rachel to get involved, and the rest, well, is analogue history.
As for the future? The group are planning a tour of Australia in mid May and are currently working on a self-recorded and funded EP to release in 2008.
Tech stuff:
Heat Like Me perform and record on analogue equipment combined with a fistful of homebrew electronics. Everything is performed live just as you hear on their recordings available on their myspace page. That means no digital samples or watching a DJ press buttons on a laptop, purely live electronica.
The group use the following equipment: Roland Juno 106, Yamaha CS-5, Roland TR-77, Oakley Sound TM-3030, Paia Fatman, Roland JX-8P & PG-800, Moog Satellite, Drumcomputer MFB-502, Korg Poly 800 series II, Dubreq Stylophone, Moogerfooger filter, Roland JX-3P and misc analogue pedals.
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