Names: Callum MacDonald, Tyler Harden, Braxton Tahi
Location: Gold Coast, Australia
Genre: Electronic, Lo-Fi, Indie-Electro
Influences: Tora, LEISURE, Neil Frances, Jungle
daste. are a trio from the Gold Coast Australia who make catchy indie-pop music with smooth R&B/soul influences, crafting a sound that can be likened to a mix between LEISURE, Tora, Two Another and Jungle.
In 2019 daste. gave us their debut ep “Palette” (via Mammal Sounds Records) which featured their singles “Thinkin’ of”, “Myself” and “SOBER” and has since collected over 16 million streams on Spotify alone.
Shortly after that ep was released, daste. started hitting the live music scene, they played a few sold-out shows in Gold Coast and Brisbane, which then led to them being invited to support the likes of Lastlings, First Beige, Boo Seeka, Buttered, Felivand, Yb., Mickey Kojack and Midnight Pool Party. They were also one of 16 artists selected by Triple J’s Dave Ruby Howe to perform at Sydney’s Electronic Music Conference (EMC) in December 2019, and have since played a few other festivals/events such as Mountain Goat Crawl (2020), Burleigh Ball (2023) and Springtime (2023).
In early 2020, daste. gave us their second ep “Same As It Ever Was” which was met with much praise and appreciation from music curators, industry peers and fans across the globe, and has accumulated over 42 million streams on Spotify alone.
While 2020’s COVID restrictions made it hard for Callum, Tyler & Braxton to meet up for writing sessions, they didn’t let that stop them making music. They put a strategy in place to start writing & working on new ideas individually, and then they got together for a few hours every week, over video calls, to flesh-out those ideas as a collective.
As those ideas started coming together the guys realised, they had a substantial collection of great new songs in the works and decided it made sense for them to focus on a full-length album.
Between November 2020 and September 2021 daste. gave us six new singles — either way, somebody like you, here with me (feat. DVNA), expectations (feat. Akurei), holding on to you (feat. Uhkirra) & changes — all in anticipation of their debut album “dusk&dawn” which was released in October 2021 and has already collected over 3 million streams on Spotify alone.
Throughout 2022 daste. were busy working on a bunch of new music. They gave us the first taste of that in December with new single ‘butterfly (so free)’, which also came with a Dom Gould directed music video and a five-date Australian tour.
With a quick jump back to 2021, daste. received a nominated for the Gold Coast Music Awards (GCMA) in the “Breakout Artist of the Year” category and jumping back to 2023 their music video for “butterfly (so free)” received a nomination for the “Best Music Video of the Year” category, and while they didn’t win either it was still a great achievement to have been in the running though!
By March 2023 daste. had achieved one of their long-term goals of reaching 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify – fast forward to March 2024 and they have almost double that number, currently sitting on 2.5 million monthly listeners, which are continuing to grow everyday…
The band hosted a three-date Australian tour which took place in August 2024 (selling out in Sydney), just before heading off to the USA for their debut North American tour throughout September/October which saw them playing New York City, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Austin, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. They returned to Australia in October to showcase at SXSW Sydney and soon after joined one of their biggest inspirations, Tora, on the Australian leg of their album tour.
Around that time the band also began the anticipation-build for their sophomore album “dasteWORLD” with a collection of exceptional singles including Around, Colours, Atlas, Starwriter, River and Tide. That album was released on February 19th and has already collected over 2 million streams worldwide.
To celebrate the album’s release they announced the “dasteWORLD Tour” which kicked-off with them supporting US artist Still Woozy on the Australian leg of his tour. They’ll also be heading to UK/EU throughout May/June for their debut headline tour, and they’ll have some North American dates to share with us very soon as well.
ARTIST CONNECT
https://soundcloud.com/daste-music
https://www.facebook.com/daste.music
https://www.instagram.com/daste.music
https://twitter.com/dasteband
https://www.tiktok.com/@daste.music
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOvwkCtPWz9rDC4rcNf303w
BOOKING ENQUIRIES
AUS – brandon@selectmusic.com.au
USA – julian@theorytouring.us
EU/UK – marlon@atc-live.com
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