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Burnside formed officially in late 2009 in the quiet suburbs of Western Sydney but have been playing music together for over ten years. The goal was to take their love of rock n roll and blend it with the modern tones of the synth but bring it back to earth with the organic sounds of the orchestra. They have been described as a blend between Birds of Tokyo and Foo Fighters with a side of old school Silverchair. Their anticipated debut album “Evolution” was released in December 2012 to an eager mob of online fans through iTunes, Spotify, Amazon and many other digital music stores. The album has also spread like wildfire through the online world of pirate music sites which has helped fuel a staggering number of new fans on their Facebook page and gigs.

Where do you call home? It’s a simple question, but one that Australian-born multi-instrumentalist and producer Burnside can struggle to answer. After cutting his teeth in the underground rock and metal scene of his native Adelaide, his eyes were opened to electronic music during a short stint in India, thanks in no small part to the rickshaw drivers of Jaipur, and the Hindi dance beats blasted from their oversized subwoofers as they cut through the city’s dusty streets. After leaving India an increasingly nomadic lifestyle carried him to various Australian and European cities and away from former bandmates and collaborators. Cemented by the purchase of his first synthesiser (a MicroKorg XL) his compositions became less guitar-based and more electronic, moving away from the sound of a 100W half-stack in a dimly lit garage and towards deep, glitchy basslines crafted from a combination of analogue synths and digital noise. Upon returning to Sydney he used his new electronic material