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02:49:00


Embodying the quintessential GoldFish experience by blending uplifting chord progressions, cheeky samples and driving beats with masterful songwriting and production, ‘If Summer Was A Sound’ evokes salty sea breezes, beachside sunsets, and the sonic superpower to take the listener to a special time and place in their lives. Drawing inspiration from their love for the ocean as avid surfers, GoldFish masterfully combine their signature saxophone leads, warm pianos and organic acoustic elements with carefully curated electronic beats, crafting a sound that is uniquely their own.
“Today is a proud moment for us as artists and as musicians.” said GoldFish. “This album is not only a creative outlet for our love to create and perform, but a way to capture the essence of our influences and where we love to spend our time - on the beach in San-Diego or at home in Cape Town with our families. Music has the superpower to take listeners to a special time and place in their lives, and this time, it obviously triggers the memories of a wonderful, love-filled summer you can always look back on with a smile.”
True to their reputation as boundary-pushing artists, GoldFish have collaborated with a diverse and impressive lineup of renowned artists that they have met on their travels around the globe. From Australian legend Xavier Rudd and L.A.-based electronic upstarts Laszewo to U.K.-based multi-instrumentalist sensation Youngr and Rio-based duo Cat Dealers, the album features an exceptional range of talent. Staying true to their African roots, the duo also worked with longtime collaborators Sakhile Moleshe and Max Vidima, and other artists include a United Nations of electronic music talent; Malou, Julia Church, Dubdogz, Luisah, The Palms, Bruno Be, Dena Williams, Carstn, Anna Graceman and Keanan Eksteen are all featured across this 22-track offering.
On the collaborative efforts of the album GoldFish said, “It is always a pleasure to work with artists that truly understand our vision and want to bring something different into the mix. These artists become like family which is what this whole album is about – enjoying summer with those nearest and dearest to you.”
‘If Summer Was A Sound’ is a testament to Dom and Dave’s unwavering dedication to their craft, showcasing their mastery in every track, whether it’s downtempo to high-energy house music. With this album, they solidify their position at the pinnacle of their career, captivating their long-time fans and inviting new listeners to experience the magic that is GoldFish. ‘If Summer Was A Sound,’ GoldFish’s sixth album would be it.

To bring the album to life, GoldFish will be taking their acclaimed live show to Europe in October. After kicking things off in Ireland, the pair will perform in London and Amsterdam across three dates ahead of the album’s release.

‘If Summer Was A Sound’ is available now via Armada Music. HERE

Tracklist
1. GoldFish - If Summer Was A Sound (Prologue)
2. GoldFish & Malou - If Summer Was A Sound
3. GoldFish feat. Julia Church - That’s Alright
4. GoldFish feat. Sakhile Moleshe - About The Weekend
5. GoldFish feat. The Palms and Hi-Def - California Child
6. GoldFish and Youngr - Two Monkeys
7. GoldFish and LUISAH - La Playa
8. GoldFish feat. Keanan Eksteen - Sing With Me
9. GoldFish feat. Julia Church - Everything Is Changing
10. CARTSN and GoldFish feat. Anna Graceman - Chasing Tomorrow
11. GoldFish and Bruno Be feat. Dana Williams - Coffee In The Afternoon
12. GoldFish feat. Xavier Rudd- We Deserve To Dream
13. GoldFish feat. Max Vidima - Going Home
14. GoldFish - Love Everlasting
15. GoldFish feat. Nate Highfield and SILVER - Forever Free
16. GoldFish and Laszewo - When I’m Alone
17. GoldFish and Dubdogz - Jazz Club
18. GoldFish & Cat Dealers - Colours & Lights
19. GoldFish & Malou - If Summer Was A Sound (DeepFish Remix)
20. GoldFish and Youngr - Two Monkeys (DeepFish Remix)
21. CARSTN and GoldFish feat. Anna Graceman - Chasing Tomorrow (GoldFish Club mix)
22. GoldFish feat. Nate Highfield and SILVER - Forever Free (DeepFish Remix)


Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]GoldFish is one of the most exceptional production and DJ duo from South Africa who finally release the much anticipated album If Summer Was A Sound. The album is magnificent slice of melodic dreamy house tracks with the well known saxophone and organic elements that really shine and make the whole result sounding more like a band and less than an electronic music project. It's the type of tracks that instantly can change your mood and make you feel a little bit happier whenever and wherever you push the play button. So definitely the title describes well the ethos of the album that encapsulates with great melodies, upbeat atmosphere, crazy saxophone riffs and collaboration with outstanding singers including Malou and Julia Church amongst others and great collaborations with artists like Dubdogz and Cat Dealers. You must consume me all the tracks at once non stop and u will find yourself body pumping and ass shaking in your living room or in your car while outside the traffic and delays are chaotic but you stay calm and transported to a tropical sunny holiday resort. An album that electronic, world/ethnic music fans will dig deep straight away. #PureGold Love IT[/content]
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2023 Tour Dates:
12 October @The Grand Social – Dublin, Ireland
13 October @Electric Brixton – London, UK
14 October @HERE at Outernet – London, UK
21 October @Melkweg – Amsterdam, Netherlands
22 October @ADE Cruise - Sloterdijk, Netherlands
27 October @Chris Saunders Park – Umhlanga, South Africa
28 October @ABANTU - Cape Town, South Africa
26 December ‘SUBMERGED’ @Cabo Beach Club - Cape Town, South Africa
31 December ‘GoldFish Ballito New Years Eve’ @Sugar Rush Park - Dolphin Coast, South Africa

About GoldFish

Before changing the Electronic Music game in South Africa as GoldFish, Dominic Peters and David Poole were mild-mannered students by day - that blew the roof off house parties by night. Their trail-blazing live show, which mixed tireless house beats with multiple live instrumental performances earned the attention of a swelling house and electronic music fan base. As their fame grew, so did their scope, scouring obscure sources for unique and cheeky samples that they twisted into endlessly fun hooks and choruses. Stirring African rhythms and Sax melodies into the mix helped Goldfish evolve a truly unique house sound. Their burnished grooves are rooted in pure pop pleasure, hooking even the most cautious listener onto the dancefloor (without next-day regret).

After seven years basing themselves between Cape Town and Ibiza, Dom and Dave have settled in San Diego to concentrate on the burgeoning US Market. A consistent string of chart-topping hits — and a live show that has seen countless festival appearances from Coachella to Glastonbury — has helped GoldFish become one of the most enduring and influential groups in live electronic music.


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04:29:00

 

Flamboyant, sultry and clubby, GoldFish’s new link-up with Spanish-born singer-songwriter LUISAH brings the heat from the off. A blend of passion, emotion and sheer musicality, ‘La Playa’ is bound to soundtrack a fiery summer love. 

Find it here: https://armada.lnk.to/LaPlaya


Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]GoldFish x LUISAH collaborate for the Latin infused instant feel good house anthem La Playa. Great energetic vocals upon the tribal driving woobly grooves and thumping basslines along with saxophone riffs identifiable with Goldfish and retro romantic touches. La Playa persuade the listener instantly for its ability to turn any space into a Latin themed party with summer cocktails and carefree atmosphere that bodies and senses do the talking! #PureGold Love IT[/content]
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04:08:00


 Feel-good, frolicky and full of faith, GoldFish's new offering on Armada Music is as delightfully contagious as they come. Featuring the heartfelt, country-esque vocals of Keanan Eksteen amidst a slow rhythm, light guitar strums and the South African duo's iconic sax sound, 'Sing With Me' brings happiness to the dance floor.


Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]GoldFish are beloved project with excellent feel good house music. Their latest one Sing With Me features vocals by Keanan Eksteen. It's marvelous magical song full of positivity and optimism perfect to transform any bad days into summer day full of sunshine and joy. The organic sound of the track with percussion and guitars  is so well crafted that you forget that this is actually an electronic song and you wait to see the band performing live and the top singer with his sexy masculine voice to invite us all to sing with him. Whenever or Wherever you will catch this song is 100% sure that can make your days! #PureGold Love IT  [[/content]
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15:26:00

 


GoldFish are known all over the world for their upbeat, live instrumentation-infused music, and their latest offering on Armada Music – made in tandem with Australian artist Xavier Rudd – is of the same irresistibly uplifting disposition. After connecting with the fellow multi-instrumentalist over a mutual love for music and surfing, the South African duo built on Xavier’s 2021 single ‘We Deserve To Dream’ and turned it into a buoyant, hope-laden track designed to light up the world.

“We’ve been huge fans of Xavier for a long time,” GoldFish say. “When he played ‘We Deserve To Dream’ to us back in the summer, the creative juices started flowing straight away. It wasn’t long before we’d put our spin on the track, keeping Xavier’s amazing vocal at the front. It was special to work with a talented instrumentalist who could understand our vision for the arrangement. It’s a bonus that Xavier also surfs – we imagine this one playing whilst we’re all out on the waves!”
About GoldFish

Since locking themselves in their bedroom studio and emerging with debut album ‘Caught In The Loop’ in 2006, GoldFish have gone from one of dance music’s best-kept secrets to luminaries, both as producers and performers. Their trailblazing live show, which combines DJing and a live instrumental performance, has earned the attention of a swelling house and electronic music fan base on a global scale. About to embark on a full-scale tour through Brazil, the South African duo have become one of the most enduring and influential groups in live electronic music with a consistent string of chart-topping hits and countless festival appearances from Coachella to Glastonbury to Lollapalooza in South America.

About Xavier Rudd

Already one of Australian music's all-time greats, Xavier Rudd has earned accolades of every kind, Gold and Platinum certifications, and legions of fans who love him with an inextinguishable passion. Throughout a journey that spans well over 15 years (and counting), Xavier Rudd’s music has resonated with people from all cultures and walks of life. In return, ARIA nominations, chart placings and Gold and Platinum records honored each release, spurring Xavier even further and producing a stellar discography that includes hailed works such as ‘To Let’ (2002), ‘Solace’ (2004), ‘Food In The Belly’ (2005), ‘White Moth’ (2007), ‘Dark Shades Of Blue’ (2008), ‘Koonyum Sun’ (2010), ‘Spirit Bird’ (2012), and his first album with The United Nations, ‘Nanna’ (2015). His biggest hit song to date, ‘Follow The Sun’, accumulated well over 200 million streams on Spotify alone.


Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]GoldFish feat. Xavier Rudd - We Deserve To Dream is definitely one of the sweetest pop dance record released lately. It has fantastic optimistic feel to it with feel good care free lyrics that will make you instantly daydream of a better more stable, peaceful and harmonious world. Great saxophone riffs and uplifting sundrenched grooves and funky basslines along with the positive lyrics turn this into a brilliant record! Love iT [/content]
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00:59:00

At the final panel of the Amsterdam Dance Event on Saturday night during ADE Soundlab, the legendary Demolition Panel XXI hosted by the techno legend Dave Clarke, we had the pleasure to enjoy GoldFish incredible input as members of the experts jury who have offered their well founded opinion and criticism on variety of demos submitted by young and emerging artists who aspire to get their recognition at ADE which is considered to be the primer platform for the global electronic music community including industry and fans. At the end of the panel I requested to have an interview with them and I'm very glad to be able to present you an interview conducted at ADE with GoldFish. 

GoldFish, an electronic duo from the Southern-most tip of Africa, have gone from one of Dance Music’s best kept secrets to leading exponents of the Live Electronic Music scene. Their pioneering mix of saxophones, flute, double bass, keyboards and pounding House beats has touched a nerve with audiences across the world, coining the moniker ‘Re-Inventing the DJ.’ Once you experience a GoldFish live performance, you immediately know you are witnessing something special. 

Between their grueling touring schedule, recording and surfing in all four corners of the globe, Dom and Dave have been quietly and steadily building a reputation for incendiary lives shows and hyper-catchy releases that are poised to spill them over into the mainstream consciousness. Their most recent release "Deep of the Night" just cracked 1 million streams and counting on Spotify. Other highlights including countless sold out performances and festival appearances everywhere, a top 10 on the US iTunes Dance chart, multiple SAMA’s, an MTV Africa award, a four-year residency at Pacha Ibiza, and a list of DJ’s including Robin Shulz, Klingande, Thomas Jack and Sam Feldt dropping their tracks as staples in their sets. Their unique and often controversial animated music videos have garnered tens of millions of views online, with a cult following eagerly awaiting the next installment. It’s almost hard to believe that not so long ago they were just Dom and Dave, two music students who led a relatively chilled life surfing and playing music in their original home of Cape Town. All that really did change when they decided to record an album.

Not having a record deal or many resources, they simply locked themselves in a bedroom...with a double bass, a saxophone and a couple of synths, recording their debut 'Caught In The Loop' on their own. A timeless dance/chill out record that received massive support from the international dance music scene, searching for something fresh and new. Pete Tong even called it his Ibiza Poolside Album of the Summer. A residency at Pacha Ibiza followed, and the Fishies honed their sound at one of the worlds’ most iconic superclubs before releasing 'Perceptions Of Pacha,' garnering a record-breaking 8 South African Music Award nominations and platinum sales in their home country. They followed this up with another SAMA award winning album 'Get Busy Living' (2010), and MTV Africa award winning 'Three Second Memory' (2013). 

To get closer to the hotbed of dance music in America, the duo are now based in San Diego, focussing on their forthcoming new album 'Tipping The Scales' (2017), a jam-packed touring schedule - and definitely exploring the surf around California during the process. Already, they’ve begun conquering the stateside festival landscape. With a whirlwind of upcoming tour dates ahead, along with a new album deal inked with Armada Music, it’s clear that all eyes in the world’s fishbowl will continue to be locked on GoldFish for the foreseeable future.



In this interview they talk about the process of recording their album Late Night People which is is recently released on Armada Music, their live gig at ADE and of course their very positive opinion about Amsterdam Dance Event and how important has been for their career. It's their 9th time at ADE and definitely its not going to be their last one. Enjoy their answers right here, right now.



Check GoldFish - Late Night People out now on Armada Music



Listen or download the new album of GoldFish here: https://Goldfish.lnk.to/LNP

Remember the time when GoldFish weren’t churning out soul-inspiring records? Neither can we. No matter where or when it’s played, their music radiates a sense of coming home, of discovering a piece of the world that has yet remained unclaimed and untainted. That’s exactly what the South African duo’s next album builds on.

In ‘Late Night People’, the signature vibes of GoldFish have evolved and adapted to mesmerize an even wider range of dance music lovers. Between its funky and sexy title track, the upbeat ‘If I Could Find’ and the ever-vibrant ‘Rising Sun’ (with Pontifexx and Gustavo Bertoni), the album harbors twelve records that are as diverse as they are alike, coexisting peacefully.

As proven by their previous four albums , you can leave it to GoldFish to deliver a body of work that’s both kaleidoscopic and unified. But most of all, this album is here for whomever brilliantly crafted music is indispensable. It is here for the ‘Late Night People’.

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