Cassian @ Sydney Portugal Club

Performers

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  Cassian

  Cassian is a Grammy Award winning Australian DJ and producer based in Los Angeles, who has become one of the most sought-after names in the Melodic House and Techno scene. With over 100 million streams worldwide and 1.2 million monthly listeners, Cassian has proven to be a true master of his craft. He has released music on several culture leading labels such as Rose Avenue Records, Afterlife Records, and Odd One Out Records, earning him top chart positions on Beatport’s Melodic House and Techno Chart and Indie Dance Chart. The impact of his music has helped him land massive performances at some of the world's most prestigious music festivals, like Coachella and Lollapalooza, as well as countless top Nightclubs around the world, like Hi Ibiza and Printworks London. Beyond his own releases, Cassian's impressive resume includes mixing critically acclaimed albums for Australian trio RÜFÜS DU SOL, which earned him multiple ARIA awards, APRA awards, and a Grammy. He has also played an integral role in projects from Anyma, Hayden James, What So Not, Crooked Colours, Broods, Set Mo, Running Touch, and many more celebrated names, with his prolific work behind the scenes, landing him multiple gold & platinum certifications. With his unique sound and undeniable talent, Cassian is quickly becoming one of the most exciting and innovative artists in the industry.
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  Mild Minds

  Although a seemingly new act, Mild Minds has quickly paved his path as an influential artist at the forefront of electronic music production worldwide. While the past decade has seen Benjamin David as the driving force behind several successful artist projects, 2017 saw him birth Mild Minds while searching to find that child-like state of creation once again.

  He introduced Mild Minds with “SWIM” in 2018 and was immediately signed by international tastemaker labels such as ODESZA’s Foreign Family Collective, Ninja Tune’s Counter Records in Europe, and Inertia in Australia.

  Soon, the LA based Australian was asked to remix ODESZA and Tycho, in addition to touring with everyone from Tycho to Big Wild. As “SWIM” eclipsed over 5 million Spotify streams, its remix from ford. notably garnered a 2020 GRAMMY® Award nomination in the category of “Best Remixed Recording.”

  On its heels, his full-length debut MOOD, earned widespread acclaim including a short list nomination for the Australian Music Prize, while remixes continued to pour in from such tastemaking producers as Jacques Greene, Laurence Guy, DJ Boring, and Throwing Snow.

  Mild Minds defines his music as an exploration between the intersection of humanity and technology; an observational top down view of human progress. He finds inspiration in human movement, patterns, mathematics and artificial intelligence. As diverse as each track may be, he always extracts human emotion from electronic sounds.

  The newly GRAMMY® Award-nominated artist, vocalist, and producer assembles electronic music intentionally agnostic of genre. He manages to do so through a genre bending combination of UK garage, house, ambient music and the organic samples in which he created debut album MOOD.

  “Through MOOD, I definitely reconnected with music in a more basic, almost childlike way, it all happened so naturally and feverishly.” he affirms. However, last year he was able to dive a little deeper and rediscover this feeling in an even more meaningful way stating, “I think people want something more from music, I know I do as I feel most of it has been lacking a level of depth for a while now. Through 2020 we seemed to let go of the more transient things in life like trends and high-fashion and something just clicked. I wanted to see how I can step up my music from a more emotional level and make it mean something more this next time around