Pnau

Pnau
Origin Sydney, Australia
Genres Electronic dance music
Associated acts Empire of the Sun (band)
Website Official website
Members
Nick Littlemore
Peter Mayes
Former members
Luke McAvenna

Pnau is an Australian dance music duo from Sydney, NSW made up of Nick Littlemore and Peter Mayes. The duo released their debut album Sambanova in 1999 under the Peking Duck label. However, the album was pulled from record stores due to uncleared samples a week before they won an ARIA Award for Best Dance Release. Warner Music Australasia re-released it in 2000, then released Need Your Lovin' Baby in 2001. After releasing the single "Follow Me" in 2002, the album charted higher than their previous albums in both the Australian ARIAnet Singles and Albums Charts. Pnau charted even higher with the single "Una Noche (Get Up)" (2003).

They released their second album in 2003 titled Again.

In 2007 the group released a self-titled album on etcetc.

Contents

Events and happenings

Awards

Discography

Albums/Singles

Note: Four versions of Sambanova have been released to the public, two through Warner Music Australasia, one through the label Peking Duck, and another sample release (no label).

  • Sambanova (1999 sample, 12" vinyl format, no label [1])
    • "Sambanova" (it is noted that it samples 2 Man Sound's "Que Tal America".)
  • Sambanova (1999, CD format, released by Peking Duck [2])
  1. "Journey Agent"
  2. "Mellotron"
  3. "Keep on Truckin'"
  4. "Hard Biscuit"
  5. "To Hear Your Love – Jon Hardy's Tinted Mix" (remix by Jon Hardy)
  6. "Sambanova"
  7. "Need Your Lovin' Baby"
  8. "Direct Drive"
  9. "Discone"
  10. "The Red Tapes"
  11. "Meshes of the Afternoon"
  12. "Arthur's Pizza"
  13. "The Last Track"
  1. "Journey Agent"
  2. "Mellotron"
  3. "Keep on Truckin'"
  4. "Hard Biscuit"
  5. "Sambanova"
  6. "Need Your Lovin' Baby"
  7. "Direct Drive"
  8. "Discone"
  9. "The Red Tapes"
  10. "Meshes of the Afternoon"
  11. "Arthur's Pizza"
  12. "The Last Track"
  1. "Follow Me"
  2. "Journey Agent"
  3. "Mellotron"
  4. "Keep on Truckin'"
  5. "Hard Biscuit"
  6. "Ordinary Day"
  7. "Sambanova"
  8. "Need Your Lovin' Baby"
  9. "Direct Drive"
  10. "The Red Tapes"
  11. "Searchin'"
  12. "Meshes of the Afternoon"
  13. "The Last Track"
  1. "Need Your Lovin' Baby"
  2. "Direct Drive"
  3. "Journey Agent"
  1. "We Love the Fresh Kills"
  2. "Again"
  3. "Super Giants"
  4. "The Hunted"
  5. "Fear & Love"
  6. "Collision Course"
  7. "In the Valley"
  8. "Enuff's Enuff"
  9. "Bloodlust"
  10. "Crystal Science"
  11. "Foreigner"
  12. "Lovers"
  13. "Bubbles 'n' Mum"
  1. "Una Noche (Get Up)" (Radio Mix)
  2. "Una Noche (Get Up)" (Toby Neal Mix)
  3. "Una Noche (Get Up)" (Hess's Bamboo Mix)
  4. "Una Noche (Get Up)" (Unplugged in the Congo Mix)
  5. "Una Noche (Get Up)" (Extended Mix)
  • PNAU (2007, released digitally on Australian iTunes Store on 30 October 2007)
  1. "With You Forever"
  2. "Wild Strawberries"
  3. "Shock to My System"
  4. "Baby"
  5. "Come Together"
  6. "We Have Tomorrow"
  7. "Lover"
  8. "No More Violence"
  9. "Embrace"
  10. "Dancing on the Water"
  11. "Freedom"
  12. "Die with Us"
  • PNAU - Australian Tour Edition (features a second disc with 6 bonus tracks)
Disc 1
  1. "With You Forever"
  2. "Wild Strawberries"
  3. "Shock to My System"
  4. "Baby"
  5. "Come Together"
  6. "We Have Tomorrow"
  7. "Lover"
  8. "No More Violence"
  9. "Embrace"
  10. "Dancing on the Water"
  11. "Freedom"
  12. "Die with Us"
Disc 2
  1. "Baby" (Breakbot Remix)
  2. "Sambanova" (Sam La More Remix)
  3. "Shock to My System" (Noel Burgess No Tempo Mix)
  4. "Five Hundred (Pedals)"
  5. "Shadow in the Shadows: The Opening/The Awakening Scorched Earth/Power Points"
  6. "Harmonic Fields"
  • Baby (2008, CD single)
  1. "Baby" (radio edit)
  2. "Baby" (Breakbot Remix)
  3. "Baby" (The Aston Shuffle 'Just Woah' Remix)
  4. "Wild Strawberries" (album version)

Collaborations

Enuff's Enuff (2004, collaboration with Empress Camielle and Abstract Rude as well as Adelaide's Juno, 12" vinyl format, unknown who released by)

The explanation of the album at Sanity Music Australia, is as follows:

"Enuff's Enuff" features two vocalists, Empress Camielle and Abstract Rude. Empress Camielle, who's based in Sydney and has lived in the USA and Jamaica, is one of the rising stars of the Australian R&B scene, nominated in the Best Urban category at the 2003 Australian Dance Music Awards for her debut single, the Dallas Austin-penned "Yada Yada Yada". Abstract Rude is a founding member of Abstract Tribe Unique, an LA posse specialising in conscious hip-hop with its roots in soul and jazz. He's also the long-time sparring partner of another respected West Coast rapper, Aceyalone, and his resonant baritone is crucial to the appeal of "Enuffs Enuff".
The vinyl comes with two remixes. The first is from Adelaide's Juno, whom Pnau met through singer Sia Furler, also from Adelaide. A multi-instrumentalist and producer (he has played saxophone and keyboards on Pnau tracks), Juno is a rising star of the Australian music scene, having signed a publishing deal with Engine Room (The Vines, Holly Valance) and released a single on Darren Emerson's Underwater label as well as forging an ever-increasing profile thanks to a string of great gigs with his live band. [7]

PNAU recently collaborated with Pip Brown aka Ladyhawke for the song "Embrace" and hit songwriter Chris Braide on new material for the bands forthcoming album.

Appearances

  • Homebake: Volume 7 - "Fear & Love" (track 13)
  • West Papua: The Sound of the Morning Star - "Hurricane" (track 12)
  • Big Day Out 2004 - "Again" (disc 2, track 5)
  • Underwater: Episode III - "In the Valley" (disc 1, track 4)
  • Clubber's Guide to 2004: Ministry of Sound - "We Love the Fresh Kills" (disc 2, track 1)
  • RATED G (release by Illpikl) - "Need Your Lovin' Baby" (track 7)
  • The 2008 Annual: Ministry of Sound - "No More Violence" (disc 2, track 2)
  • Corroboration - "Ride" with Stiff Gins (track 9)
  • MOS: Clubber's Guide to 2008 - "Wild Strawberries" (Sam La More remix) (disc 1, track 1)
  • Triple J's Hottest 100: Volume 15 - "Wild Strawberries" (disc 2, track 22)
  • MOS: Electro House Sessions 2 - "Lover" (disc 2, track 2)
  • MOS: Mashed 4 - "Baby" (The Aston Shuffle Just Woah Remix) (disc 2, track 5)
  • MOS: Clubber's Guide Spring 2008 - "Embrace" (Sam la More Remix) (disc 1, track 4)
  • MOS: The 2009 Annual - "With You Forever" (Dirty South Remix) (disc 2, track 2)
  • Kitsuné Maison Compilation 6 - "With You Forever" (track 3) (2008, Kitsuné Music)

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