The Avalanches

The Avalanches
General information
origin	Melbourne , Australia
Genre (s)	Electronica , Plunderphonics , Alternative Dance
founding	1997
Website	Homepage
Current occupation
Keyboard , guitar , producer , mixing	Robbie Chater
DJ , keyboard	James Dela Cruz
Keyboard , bass	Tony Di Blasi

The Avalanches are an Australian electronic music group from Melbourne known for their numerous DJ activities and their debut album Since I Left You , which was recorded with approximately 3,500 vinyl samples. Currently (2016) it consists of the members James Dela Cruz, Robbie Chater and Tony Diblasi. Stylistically, it can be assigned to alternative dance and breakbeat .

Career

The Avalanches started as Alarm 115 in 1995 , a noise punk formation inspired by bands like Drive Like Jehu , The Fall and Ultra Bidet . The group officially renamed itself to The Avalanches only on their fifth live appearance, as opening act for Jon Spencer Blues Explosion . As a result, their notoriety grew rapidly. The debut single Rock City was released in the spring of 1997 on Trifekta Records. This was followed by the EP El Producto on Wondergram Records in December of the same year . Due to the success of the EP, label owner Steve Pavlovic signed The Avalanches with his new label Modular Recordings in May 1998 . The group's first studio album was released here.

Since I Left You

Since I Left You , the Avalanches' debut album, was released in Australia in November 2000 and was nominated for nine ARIA Awards. They also won six Australian Dance Music Awards. In England, the first single released from the album, also under the name "Since I Left You", entered the charts at number 16 and the video for the single was named "Video of the Year" at the MTV Europe Music Awards . The well-known hip-hop magazine Juice voted the album number 4 of the best Australian albums of all time. Since I Left You contains numerous samples from other artists, including a sample from Madonna's hit single Holiday in the song "Stay Another Season".

Wildflower

With Wildflower second album The Avalanches released on 8 July 2016 after sixteen years. On June 2, 2016, the first single Frankie Sinatra was released from the album on which the group has been working since 2005.

Discography

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Since I Left You   UK 8th  gold 04/28/2001 (32 weeks)   AU 21st  platinum 12/10/2000 (29 weeks) Wildflower   DE 60 07/15/2016 (1 week)   AT 42 07/22/2016 (1 week)   CH 44 07/17/2016 (1 week)   UK 10 07/21/2016 (3 weeks)   US 27 07/30/2016 (2 weeks)   AU 1  gold 07/24/2016 (9 weeks)

Singles

Frontier psychiatrist   UK 18th 07/21/2001 (6 weeks)   AU 49 10/15/2000 (1 week) Since I Left You   UK 16 04/07/2001 (9 weeks) Frankie Sinatra   AU 34 06/19/2016 (1 week)

Albums

• 2000: Since I Left You
• 2016: Wildflower

Singles and EPs

• 1997: Rock City
• 1997: El Producto
• 1999: Undersea Community
• 1999: Electricity
• 2001: Frontier Psychiatrist
• 2001: Since I Left You
• 2001: radio
• 2001: A Different Feeling
• 2001: At Last Alone
• 2008: Frontier Psychiatrist (republication)

Remixes

• Gerling - Enter Spacecapsule (Enter the Spaceship Mix by The Avalanches) (1999)
• Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining (The Avalanches Good Word for the Weekend Remix) (2000)
• Manic Street Preachers - So Why So Sad (Sean Penn Mix - Avalanches) (2001)
• Belle & Sebastian - I'm a Cuckoo (Avalanches Mix) (2004)
• The Concretes - Chico (Avalanches' Wernham Hogg Remix) (2004)
• Wolfmother - Woman (Avalanches Millstream Remix) (2006)
• Franz Ferdinand - Fade Together (Avalanches Remix) (2006)

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1. ↑ The Avalanches show video for the new song Frankie Sinatra on Musikexpress.de , accessed on June 3, 2016
2. ↑ First single in 15 years on Laut.de , accessed on June 3, 2016
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US AU
4. ↑ ^{a b} Awards: UK AU

Web links

• The Avalanches - Official Website