Push Through

APTS (pronounced “Apartments”) is a collaboration between Art Pleasley and Thomas Shaw. 

As Art Pleasley, Angus Fitz-Bugden makes angular emo funk while Thomas Shaw is where Mike Watson goes to craft cinematic laptop bangers. Having known each other for nearly a decade - and for as many years having pledged to make music together - the time was finally right. Starting out as one long-overdue track between two Lismore/Lennox Head producers, this fated musical and social experiment effortlessly grew into enough material to take to the stage. 

APTS fuses modern electronica and future-soul with vintage hip hop and pop; Brought to life as a two-man, live/sampled stage show which has to date opened for YEO, Outside The Academy (OTA) and fellow north-coasters Nocturnal Tapes.
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Like A Pro is the tale of two lovers who have been thrown into a long distance situation, they have to combat isolation, regret and capricious technology with the optimism that things will be better when they reunite. 

Fluctuating dynamics and movements in the groove imitate the story throughout the song leading to a climactic reuniting of the couple embellished by layers of anthemic strings and legions of synthesizers.

The ode to technology’s fickle role in an intercontinental relationship cements the pair as a solid producing/songwriting duo with one foot planted in old school craft and the other in future-gazing experimentalism.

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I know it’s a ladder to climb,
But I’ll do it
It doesn’t matter; the time
As long as it’s you that I’m waking up to at 3 on a Tuesday
You’ve just seen the Blue Jays play and I
Need to talk to you

I couldn’t hear what you were saying
The connection’s slow
And buffering isn’t really living
I wanna play the thing you’re playing
Like a Pro
Know that I’m feeling what you’re feeling

You know I could’ve been sadder or cried
I got through it
And that’s not a matter of pride
I just kind of knew you were waiting up ‘til I get home from college
With all of this knowledge but still it was you
That rang true

But some of the time…

I couldn’t hear what you were saying
The connection’s slow
Buffering isn’t really living
I wanna play the thing you’re playing
Like a Pro
Know that I’m feeling what you’re feeling

I couldn’t care what the method is; we’re communicating
I never get your messages and it gets frustrating
Long as we’re still on planet earth and it keeps rotating
I couldn’t think of a better way to spend my day than waiting for ya

There’s so much that we are yet to conquer
I’ve been here while you’ve been over yonder
There’s a world together we can wander
Soon we won’t be waiting that much longer


Like a Pro

She Moves Right Through Me

Art Pleasley & Thomas Shaw are back with another banger. It's called Ms. Fire and it's a slinky funk groove built out of vinyl crackle and guitar pedal dirt with a Hiatus-Timberlake breakdown and a face-melting QOTSA solo. 



So it’s just a distraction that you’re after
Just some chitter chatter
But if there’s a fraction of attraction
We should let it happen

A little abstraction’s what we’re lacking
But that doesn’t matter
We’re just chasing the passion, while it’s still in fashion
Let’s just get it crackin’

But it’ll be the same as it ever was
	 
High flyer
Ms. fire 
Inspires
Crossed wires

I’m a man on a mission, but in this position,
I’ll shut up and listen, hey
Is it just superstition? Am I preconditioned?
Stuck in repetition?

By your own recognition, yeah we could be kissing,
So what am I missing? A proposition?
I’ve got suppositions, premonitions, 
I’m no magician; I just want your permission to touch

High flyer
Ms. fire 
Inspires
Crossed wires

Think I know what you’re thinking ‘bout
But you’re still on your phone
Give ‘em something to talk about
When I’m taking you home
Pretty sure what you’re getting at
Now I’m making you moan
And you won’t be forgetting that
How I rattle your bones

banger barrage

Ms. Fire

A collaboration between Art Pleasley and Thomas Shaw

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