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After a 3-year break from the music industry, Pinkque makes a triumphant return with her much-anticipated debut album set for release in 2024. Having burst onto the scene in 2014 with a remix of ‘One’ by Manuel Le Suax, Pinkque quickly established herself as a force in the trance world. Her original track 'Reborn' soared to the Top 100 Trance Charts on Beatport for four consecutive weeks in December 2014. Notable releases like 'Hereafter' (2015) hitting #27 on Beatport's trance charts and being voted #1 on Ferry Corsten's Corstens Countdown showcased Pinkque's rising prominence. Her 2016 original 'The Aggressor' earned the coveted title of 'The Future Sound' on Aly & Fila's Future Sound Of Egypt radio show. Stepping into 2018, Pinkque collaborated with Melbourne producer Jinus on 'Mission Control,' signed on MaRLo's label Reaching Altitude and supported by Armin Van Buuren on A State Of Trance Radio Show (#835). Her remix for maRLo's 'Always Be Around' garnered widespread acclaim, featured on ASOT and played by Armin Van Buuren and MaRLo at some of the most iconic festivals in the world such as Tomorrowland and Untold Festivals. Pinkque's musical journey continues to captivate audiences, and her return promises a new chapter of musical exploration.

Once transmitted through speakers and into the airwaves, music belongs to the people. The audience ascribes meaning and significance to songs and ultimately absorbs them for life.

By the same token, SIX60 belong to listeners. The history-making award-winning New Zealand quintet—Matiu Walters [vocals, guitar], Marlon Gerbes [keyboard], Ji Fraser [lead guitar], Chris Mac [bass], and Eli Paewai [drums]—stir rock, reggae, funk, and pop together with a twist of kiwi roots music and Maori instrumentation. Invoking this spirit and Kiwi roots, their latest music and next evolution showcases traditional Maori instruments such as Pūtātara and Pūkāe (stone and long trumpets), Bone Kōauao (Bone Flute), and Karanga Weka (Stone Flute). “We want to take our Maori culture and put it into a mainstream radio world,” exclaims Matiu. “There are only a handful of people in the world who can play these instruments, and we felt getting them into a mainstream album could give them a chance to stay alive.”
Over a decade before breaking records and selling out stadiums back home or signing to Epic Records stateside, the boys then welcomed the world into their musical ecosystem and set a career precedent in 2008 while still students.

“At University of Otago, we shared a flat at 660 Castle Street in Dunedin, New Zealand,” recalls Matiu. “We originally didn’t name the band. Instead, our first college fans gave the band the name by calling us the ‘SIX60 Boys,’ which evolved into SIX60. We adopted this philosophy into our albums. The fans add the final touches and have naming rights over things we do. The songs aren’t done until the audience has them. So, the album doesn’t really have a spirit or a name until the crowd consumes it.”

As such, SIX60 engender a rare level of devotion from fans, bordering on downright phenomenal. The group’s 2011 full-length, SIX60 (I. The Gold Album), bowed at #1 on the charts in New Zealand and eventually went septuple-platinum. SIX60 (II. The Colours Album). saw them reclaim the top spot on the charts in 2015 and go quintuple-platinum. To date, New Zealand single sales exceed 1 million as global streams surpass 200 million and counting. At the 2018 NZ Music Awards, they garnered “Best Group” in addition to five other honors.

A year later, they made history. Performing their biggest show to date, they sold out Western Springs Stadium in New Zealand and became “the first New Zealand Act to Sell 50,000 Tickets to a Show at the Stadium” (They repeated the same feat for 2020!). The gig proved to be a major milestone both professionally and musically.

Low Speed Bus Chase is a groove-laden rock band which formed in New Zealand in 2008 and are currently writing new material - with "The Finish Line" being their third full length studio album.

LSBC began as an acoustic band formed by members of various hard rock and metal acts interested in a change in direction. Drawing from their collective pool of material, the boys put together a set of original songs and hit the studio.

Their debut album “The Thrill Of The Chase” was released in June 2009, followed by the video for the first single “Will Nostalgia Turn Blue”. LSBC relocated to Melbourne and recorded  a 3 song EP, "Off The Cuff", in 2011 - which showed a more focused effort, and a slight change in direction to a melodic rock sound with slight funk undertones

The second full length album, "Breathe", was released in 2013 and cemented the new musical direction, while also harking back to the acoustic roots of the first album.

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