Rüfüs Du Sol launches new label as third album tipped for global breakthrough

DM tastemakers such as BBC Radio and club legend Pete Tong are already predicting that Los Angeles-based Australian band Rüfüs Du Sol’s October 11-due Solace is going to be a global breakthrough; but the band hasn’t forgotten its own roots.

It’s set up its own record label, Rose Avenue, which name checks their former house in Los Angeles near Venice Beach where they lived for the past year and where they made the record.

Their first, Atlas, was made in Sydney; their second, Bloom, in Berlin.

Tyrone Lindqvis, Jon George and James Hunt told Billboard that when they released their Bloom album they had no record label outside Australia.

It took their close buddies ODESZA to get their music out to the world, to the point where they are currently touring through North America and Europe, selling out shows, consistently playing major festivals and hitting a streaming mark of 400,000.

“We want to return the favour and give artists that we love and believe in that platform,” Rüfüs Du Sol’s told Billboard.

“There is great music out there that people aren’t willing to take a chance on.”

First signing to Rose Avenue is Australian disco house producer and performer Cassian who made his name with remixes for Flight Facilities (Crave You) and Mr Sanka (Gallon).

Cassian also remixed on Solace and confirmed on his Facebook page that his first release through Rose Avenue is Lafayette.

Pete Tong, a great supporter of Rüfüs Du Sol, predicts that Solace will mark a change for the band, and that they are “are about to hit a whole new level.”

The band themselves reveal they had an adventurous approach to making Solace.

They abandoned their samples and synths and moved into their studio with instruments and a new attitude.

Providing inspiration, according to Mixmag, was that the band remodelled the pool house of Rose Avenue into an underwater galaxy with the help of a shaman.