Melbourne’s The Avalanches emerged as a blend of noise punk and hip-hop influences with an EP called El Producto in 1997.

The track I remember from that was called Rock City, which I think had one or two Beastie Boys samples. Dexta, their DJ, won the Australian championships for 3 years running and would go on to 2nd place in the world in 2000.

I was lucky enough to see them play one New Year’s Eve, just before the album Since I Left You was released in 2000/2001. It was a great show in a small, packed room.

This is the title track from that album, which Rolling Stone names the 8th best Australian album of all time.

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