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Mistletone presents for the first time in Australia, Baltimore party performer and indie-dance cult hero Dan Deacon, bringing his hyper-fun, DIY electro mayhem to the Laneway Festival and a string of action-packed side shows!

Dan is the founder of Wham City, a utopian art and music collective based in Baltimore, and frontrunner of the Future Shock genre emerging from Baltimore’s growing underground music scene.

Since 2004 Dan has been touring almost nonstop throughout the United States and Europe with the likes of Girl Talk, Spank Rock, Lightning Bolt, Cat Power, Kool Keith, Diplo, Blue Oyster Cult, Wolf Eyes, and many others.

Dan’s music is often compared to Devo, due to his masterful combination of a lo-fi electronic sound with an absurdist pop sensibility and a punk rock lust for noise. Also influenced by Talking Heads, Scratch Orchestra, People Like Us and Raymond Scott, Dan’s mission is to take contemporary experimental composition and electronic music out of the circle of the esoteric intellectual gangs and hipster communities, and into the more informal “fun time.”

DAN DEACON AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES

Fri Feb 22 – Sydney: Oxford Arts Factory. Tickets $19 +BF from Moshtix.
Sat Feb 23– Melbourne: Evelyn Hotel. Tickets $19 +BF from Polyester (387 Brunswick St, Fitzroy and 288 Flinders Lane, City), TITLE (183 Gertrude St, Fitzroy), the Evelyn bottle shop and http://www.mistletone.net
Sun Feb 24 – Melbourne: Laneway Festival
Wed Feb 27 – Perth Festival: Beck’s Music Box
Thu Feb 28 – Adelaide: Rocket Bar. Tickets $15 +BF from Oztix.
Fri Feb 29 – Brisbane: Troubadour. Tickets $19 + BF from Oztix.
Sat Mar 1– Brisbane: Laneway Festival
Sun March 2 – Sydney: Laneway Festival

Dan’s recent album Spiderman of the Rings’ is out now on Mistletone Records.