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Hailing from provincial Italy, world class DJ & producer Benny Benassi is a name needing little introduction but always deserving of wide admiration and acclaim.  Indulging in a career spanning fifteen plus years, Benassi is renown as a humble, authentic and charming character who has grown from club DJ to festival king to multi-million selling record producer taking success in his stride. Trademarking his unique infusion of house and electro with his global smash “Satisfaction” Benny has continued to create music which is a clear evolution of this signature sound but never deviating too far. 

There is no better place to start delving into the rich history of the Benassi career than with his international blockbuster, “Satisfaction” and its game-changing music video became his launch pad into stardom. Created with his cousin and producer, Alle Benassi, and inspired by the car horns outside an open street facing window, this single catapulted into the charts with a #1 in France, #2 in the UK and Germany. Followed by his debut album Hypnotica, which reached top 20 across nearly all parts of Europe within the first month of release. 

The next few years for Benny were a culmination of successes, whether it be the major festivals he went on the play (Coachella, EDC, Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland to name a few) or his next artist album, Rock N Rave in 2008. The same year he won a Grammy Award for his ground breaking remix of Public Enemy “Bring The Noise” further catapulting the Benassi name into stardom. 

In 2011, Benny teamed up with a star-studded album cast for his album Electroman which featured T-Pain, Kelis, Jean-Baptsiste and Apl.de.ap amongst others and most famously Gary Go with his chart-topping single “Cinema”.  The Skrillex remix of “Cinema” not only went Gold in the US and platinum in Australia and Canada but won the Benassi’s another Grammy whilst holding firm in the iTunes top 10 dance chart for over 6 months. 

Still on this exceptional career high, Benny Benassi combined talents with Chris Brown to create one of the biggest cross-over dance records of its time with “Beautiful People”. The following years have been a measure of incredible world tours and releases, most notably his record “Dance The Pain Away” with John Legend, which premiered live on stage at Coachella with John himself. 

2016 saw Benny released his first album in five years Danceaholic, an unexpected, stunning cocktail of already released tracks, two unreleased reworks of older singles and brand new songs, led by the hit summer anthem “Paradise”, once again with Chris Brown. “Paradise” stayed in the Top 50 UK charts for 10 weeks and boasts more than 65 million video views and close to 47 million Spotify streams. 

In recent years, Benny's main releases include “Everybody Needs A Kiss” featured US duo Sofi Tukker racking up over 10 millions streams online and was featured as the sound of gay pride for Musica.ly, "Lonely Nights" featuring Lil Yachty, interspersed with two great house-oriented tracks, "Inside" with Chris Nasty, performing well in clubs and on streaming platforms and "Everybody Hates Monday Mornings" with his own production outfit, BB Team, and featuring the eccentric and charismatic YouTuber, Canguro English.

Beyond his own productions he brought his sound to a wider musical audience with a flurry of high-profile remixes with the likes of Bob Marley & The Wailers, Giorgio Moroder, Madonna, Sean Paul and the Rolling Stones, to name but a few; whilst maintaining a weekly radio show on the US heavy-weight iHeart Radio broadcasting to a staggering quarter of a billion listeners monthly.

Global trekker and Byron Bay-based singer-songwriter, producer and eco warrior Billy Otto offers up his latest labour of love. Let Me Loose is a regenerative war cry that appeals to the inner-child and offers up unrivalled access to a divine sense of freedom.

 Billy Otto’s sound lands somewhere between Radiohead and The Beatles. With confessional choruses, apprehending lyrics and sun-drunk vocals, Billy’s desire to stir audiences is self-evident. Finding global success over the last 4 years, Billy has toured over 30 countries, building a loyal following in Brazil, Sweden, USA, Japan and selling out shows in Australia with his raw and energetic presence.

Following the release of an eminent cover of The Cranberries’ Dreams with Kyle Lionhart and Our Song with a non-for profit collaboration for The Tambah Project, Billy Otto returns felicitously with a solo single. Crystalised by a chorus that you feel you’ve heard a thousand times before, Let Me Loose envelops you in pure nostalgia. This comforting familiarity of the 60s and 70s is felt through Otto’s warm-bodied falsetto harmonies and via a haven of George Harrison inspired hooks. 

This infectious bout of blithe was conjured amidst a moment of bitterness at the end of a relationship. Yet Otto sought to confront the indignation:

“And I just felt this dark sense of yearning for validation. I really felt resentful. But there was a calming spirit that came over me as I tuned my acoustic guitar low and just started strumming hard like I was from a 1968 Americana country rock band. The words ‘let me loose’ flowed out of my mouth and the entire song came together in the next 24 hours.”

Much like the letting go of a loved one, Let Me Loose meditates on the decoupling from the fundamentilist religion Billy Otto has felt “baked in.” Born into the Seventh Day Adventist church, Otto became a pastor and an international speaker. Otto explains, “I was so committed to my creed that in my honest zeal I lost many friends, left rock music for 10 years, judged a lot of people and found myself in a continuous loop of guilt believing that I wasn’t doing enough for the Kingdom of Heaven.”


On this latest release, Otto prays to the divinity within oneself and turns away from the shame that the toxic template of faith is so often steeped in. Hey says, “This is by no means a resignation of a former faith, but an assertion of the deepening of an existing faith. I had to lose God in order to find God.”

Weapsonised by his archetypal confessional language, Otto’s brutal imagery is dissolved in sunny chords and flamboyant keys. Let Me Loose is the breaking free from the subconscious wrestle; from a past self, a broken relationship and a belief system that no longer serves you. Painting the numbers of his message with colourful, inclusive brushstrokes, this song is ultimately a joyous conduit for togetherness and unity through music. 

In a time of global crisis let the intimate polymath that is Billy Otto offer you an alternative elixir to life. The answers for nourishment and hope are already within. Observe them, honour them and let them let you go. 

“On my ankle I’ve tied an anchor / Give me an  answer and I’ll cut myself free.”

From the flow state genesis, Jarrah-Ferris Smith (@jarrahmusic) tied up the initial writing session and from there producer Caleb Tasker (g Flip, Tuka, Lil Spacely) was the Lennon to Otto’s McCartney in his studio in Marrickville. Let Me Loose was also co-produced and mixed by Caleb Harris in Chicago. The sheer athleticism of the drums and colourful West African percussion was performed by Bobby Alu and mastered to perfection by Trent Dobson (Angus

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