If you caught their recent Hi Viz tour, if you’ve heard the Hi Viz album or if you’re wondering how an electronic duo became the people’s favourites without having to turn into the likes of Sticky Fingers, this short musing which first appeared in Neighbourhood Paper has an idea. It was always beers, or speed and beers. Now it might be ‘roids and beers, but the principles are the same. Masculine and leaning into your face with a rictus grin or a curled lip snarl – the latter

Picture by Ben Sullivan Apparently, the Presets, Australia’s premier electronic band, “like to listen to Beethoven”. This is not a guess, or an assumption – there it is baldly stated on track four of the new Presets album, Hi Viz. He is “everything you ever wanted, everything you ever needed”. Rightio then. Good to know. Any thoughts on Berg? Telemann? The reference to Ludwig van on the new album by the two Sydney Conservatorium-trained musicians (Kim Moyes in percussion; Jul