Mar 13, 06
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Infusion
all you live pa yankers, all you prog guys, all you breaks girls, everyone.. this is gonna be a wicked show.. I get excited about good talent coming to this city, not to mention some balls for throwing a show like this... they are unbelievable live, i've caught them @ stereo in montreal once.. and it blew my head off.. now that's hard for me to say these days.. my expectations rarely get super-ceeded.
SO shit, make it out to this one. http://www.ph1.ca/infusion 
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Mar 13, 06
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"Lyrically smart, the crux of Infusion's success and cause for their growing following lies in their spontaneous and impassioned live sets, taking crowds at Fabric, Renaissance and beyond by storm." - URB Magazine, 2005 The Next 100 Issue.
"For the uninitiated, Infusion's electronic landscape sounds incredibly at home when played alongside the music of Hybrid, New Order and David Bowie. Indeed, it's electro, it's rock. It very much represents the here and now" - Michael Paoletta, Billboard Magazine.
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Mar 18, 06
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Sooooooooooo going to this one..... Going to be a killer show... Infusion.... Live PA..... Amazing..... And yes this is a show that your NOT going to miss.... You may think "meh live pa" Trust me.... once when you see a live pa set you'll want to see another one.....
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Mar 25, 06
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don't miss INFUSION! Live
one of the most respected names in Progressive, Breaks and Trance.. Appeared on countless comps including: John Digweed, Adam Freeland, Paul Oakenfold, Sander Kleinenberg, Pete Tong, JunkieXL, Dave Seaman, Sasha, Dub Pistols, Sandra Collins, Ultra music fest, Meat Katie, DJ Mag, BPitch Control, Fabric, Ministry of Sound....... www.infusion.net.au ........................................ ........................................ ............... - Rolling Stone said one of the 'Best 50 Albums of 2004'. - The Sydney Morning Herald described Infusion as “Australia's best live act” - Muzik Magazine labelled the band “a force to be reckoned with” - Mixmag portrayed Infusion as “exciting, and funky as fcuk.” - ARIA award winners - Australian Dance Music multi-award winners
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Mar 27, 06
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INFUSION live review from Resident Advisor, sweeettt
Infusion Live with Steve Porter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It had been over two years since Infusion had played a gig in New York. Last year the closest show was Boston, this year Miami. Fortunately, the people of this city were once again given the opportunity to hear the live sounds of one of the best electronic bands in the world. Luckily, with their album, “Six Feet Above Yesterday” soon to be released in the States, they were back. The night was held at Rothko, a small live performance space on the lower east side. More and more events are being held there and although the space is painted bright red, it still has a very dirty, grungy vibe. Things got kicked off at nine with Steve Porter, whose everywhere seems to be everywhere that matters these days! Unfortunately, I did not get down to the party until half eleven (thanks to a massive traffic jam on a Thursday night- where the hell are people going on Thursday night!). Anyway, I got in quickly, boogied a bit to Steve's groovy opening set, said hello to some guys and gals, and settled in up front. It was nice to see a very solid crowd out on a Thursday night. There were enough people that it the space was filled, but not so many that you could not dance. Rothko has a very utilitarian feel to it with the stage located as one end of the room. The members of the band had their equipment spread across the stage- Manuel stage right, Jamie manning the mixing board in the middle, and Frank doing his thing on the far side. Things got moving quickly as they launched into "Better World" as their opener, followed up by "Do To You (in '82)." As soon as the opening note rang out one could tell that they were on form. As soon as Jamie did his first pogo things started heating up- both figuratively and literally. It felt as if the red walls were radiating onto the crowd and band. As the set carried on the temperature rose and the boys from Melbourne were drenched- and loving every minute it! Although there are quite a few bootlegged Infusion sets floating around, nothing that I have heard could match the sonic boom that emanated from Manhattan that night. Manuel’s voice sounded stronger than ever, Frank’s backing vocals strengthened the choruses, and Jamie’s quarterbacking kept the pace constant and free flowing. As the performance carried on, the tempo dipped a bit in the middle, and I believe some new material was tried out as Jamie took a piece of paper out to assist him with some lyrics. However, the night went out with a bang as my favorite tune off the new album, "Love and Imitation," got a thorough working. It first made its appearance on their Essential Mix last year, and this version was even mightier as a vocal was laid overtop. It seemed that as quickly as the whole event had started, it ended. The band was spent, I was exhausted, and everyone was smiling. The night marked a triumphant return to Gotham and it made me realize that there is so much more to dance music than two turntables a mixer. Luckily, according the band, I get to be reminded again in August! Rating: 9 / 10.
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Apr 03, 06
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Apr 04, 06
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check out this Tracklisting!
ALLL THEIR OWN TRACKS The Essential Mix Tracklist: 04/01/2004 - Infusion Download here http://www.ph1.ca/infusion Infusion - Do To You What You Want Me To Infusion - Balance Infusion - Drop Infusion - Starwater, It's Alright - (Marine Parade) Infusion - Lockdown Infusion - My Name Is Radar - (Thunk Recordings) Infusion - Kommi Infusion - Hostile Infusion - Girls Can Be Cruel (Original Mix) - (BMG / Audio Therapy) Infusion - Dead Souls - (Marine Parade) Will Saul - Cliff (Infusion Remix) - (Simple) Infusion - Boog Infusion - Girls Can Be Cruel (Remix) - (BMG / Audio Therapy) Infusion - Djembe Infusion - Black Weekend, Fallen Angel - (Thunk Recordings) Infusion - Legacy - (Audio Therapy / Thunk Recordings) Infusion - Untitled
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Apr 06, 06
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http://straight.com/content.cfm?id=17072
Dance-pop Infusion is a band in the classic sense By martin turenne Publish Date: 6-Apr-2006 http://straight.com/images/MUS_Infusion_1998.jpg The three members of Melbourne’s Infusion live together, record together, and tour together, operating like a modern-day version of the Monkees—except without the shag haircuts and the televised antics. Over the past six years, multi-instrumentalists Jamie Stevens, Manuel Sharrad, and Frank Xavier have shared the same house, somehow fending off domestic turmoil to become Australia’s biggest dance-music export. Asked how he and his mates have managed to tolerate each other’s quirks for so long, Stevens admits their relationship hasn’t always been rosy, especially not last year, when the threesome almost broke up. “We were living in the U.K. for six months in the hopes that we would be playing gigs on weekends and working on an album during the weekdays,” says the Aussie, reached at the tail end of Miami’s Winter Music Conference. “But with all the years of being together, it had become too much, and we hardly got any work done at all.…We just needed time apart.” After taking two months’ holiday over Christmas, Infusion reunited with renewed energy, quickly writing 20 tracks for the trio’s next album, scheduled for release later in 2006. That LP will be the follow-up to last year’s Six Feet Above Yesterday, billed by Rolling Stone Australia as one of the country’s 50 best discs of the year. A standout in the live-meets-electronic field, SFAY epitomizes the prevailing trends in post-superclub dance music, updating ‘80s-era new romanticism for the progressive-house generation. These days, the intersection of those forms is choked with opportunistic beatmakers, but what sets the Aussies apart from those laptop jockeys is their reliance on live, rock-style recording sessions. “We’re a band in the classic sense,” says Stevens. “Most of what we’ve done has been in the live context. What we like about being in the studio is that environment gives us a chance to go all out, to make music in the broader sense with no worries about how we will present it in clubs.” When Infusion plays tonight (April 6) at the Plaza, don’t expect a Kraftwerk-style exercise in robotic precision. According to Stevens, the trio never rehearses, preferring to let instincts rule the day, no matter what the hazards. “In every show, there’s little moments where it does threaten to fall apart, but you’ve just got to grab hold of it and have fun with it,” he explains. “We look at it as a great opportunity to take those risks and try and do something new in front of people every night.”
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