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‘You’d be better off in bed’ Ross’ lawyer told him, and immediately he knew it to be true – he had to reassess his hitherto successful days as a black market art-book dealer, and find a new direction. Halfway up a volcano in Trawas, East Java, he knew that he had to return to Melbourne. And so it was in the fateful summer of 2007 that he crossed paths with Lochie, who was busy working on a collection of tracks for each astronaut and cosmonaut to have walked on the moon. Briefly playing in a Prince cover band together (‘FINGERPRINCE’), they immediately felt a synergy beyond playing His Purpleness’ fruitful arrangements. Shortly after, WiLSON was born on a midda-summer’s nighty – with eternal thanks to Buzz Aldrin. Together they blend irregular measurements of psychedelic pop, surrealist funk, and dubby dance fun with original, neologic vocal stylings – right here on Planet Earth.

- W I L S O N - Like the volleyball from castaway https://soundcloud.com/james-wilson-2770

There is a quiet intensity to Wilson’s approach. In both his productions and his DJ sets, Wilson combines his love of tech and prog to create a sonic landscape that invites the body to move and the mind to let go. As comfortable on a festival stage as in a club, the South African-born DJ/producer has spent the last decade in Melbourne, cultivating a sound that someone somewhere once described as ‘deep, detailed and driving’. Sometimes light, sometimes dark, always evolving, definitely engaging.

21 from Sydney AUS Dark RnB/hip-hop and pop.