Pnau

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Pnau

Background information
Origin Sydney, Australia
Genre(s) Electronic dance music
Website Official website
Members
Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes

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). Their second album is titled Again. In 2007 the group released a self-titled album.

Contents

[edit] Events & happenings

Nick and Peter
Nick and Peter

[edit] Awards

[edit] Discography

[edit] 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])
    • Track 1: Journey Agent
    • Track 2: Mellotron
    • Track 3: Keep On Truckin'
    • Track 4: Hard Biscuit
    • Track 5: To Hear Your Love – Jon Hardy’s Tinted Mix (remix by Jon Hardy)
    • Track 6: Sambanova
    • Track 7: Need Your Lovin’ Baby
    • Track 8: Direct Drive
    • Track 9: Discone
    • Track 10: The Red Tapes
    • Track 11: Meshes of the Afternoon
    • Track 12: Arthur’s Pizza
    • Track 13: The Last Track


  • Sambanova (2000, CD format, had video on it, rereleased by Warner Music Australasia [3])
    • Track 1: Journey Agent
    • Track 2: Mellotron
    • Track 3: Keep On Truckin'
    • Track 4: Hard Biscuit
    • Track 5: Sambanova
    • Track 6: Need Your Lovin' Baby
    • Track 7: Direct Drive
    • Track 8: Discone
    • Track 9: The Red Tapes
    • Track 10: Meshes Of The Afternoon
    • Track 11: Arthur's Pizza
    • Track 12: The Last Track


  • Sambanova (2001, CD format, has 3 bonus tracks, released by Warner Music Australasia [4])
    • Track 1: Follow Me
    • Track 2: Journey Agent
    • Track 3: Mellotron
    • Track 4: Keep On Truckin'
    • Track 5: Hard Biscuit
    • Track 6: Ordinary Day
    • Track 7: Sambanova
    • Track 8: Need Your Lovin' Baby
    • Track 9: Direct Drive
    • Track 10: The Red Tapes
    • Track 11: Searchin'
    • Track 12: Meshes Of The Afternoon
    • Track 13: The Last Track


  • Need Your Lovin' Baby (2001, 12" Vinyl format, released by Warner Music Australasia [5])
    • Track 1: Need Your Lovin' Baby
    • Track 2: Direct Drive
    • Track 3: Journey Agent
  • Again (2003, CD format, released by Warner Music Australasia [6])
    • Track 1: We Love The Fresh Kills
    • Track 2: Again
    • Track 3: Super Giants
    • Track 4: The Hunted
    • Track 5: Fear & Love
    • Track 6: Collision Course
    • Track 7: In The Valley
    • Track 8: Enuff's Enuff
    • Track 9: Bloodlust
    • Track 10: Crystal Science
    • Track 11: Foreigner
    • Track 12: Lovers
    • Track 13: Bubbles 'n' Mum
  • PNAU (2007, Released Digitially on Australian Itunes Store on 30 October 2007)
    • Track 1: With You Forever
    • Track 2: Wild Strawberries
    • Track 3: Shock to My System
    • Track 4: Baby
    • Track 5: Come Together
    • Track 6: We Have Tomorrow
    • Track 7: Lover
    • Track 8: No More Violence
    • Track 9: Embrace
    • Track 10: Dancing On the Water
    • Track 11: Freedom
    • Track 12: Die With Us


  • PNAU - Australian Tour Edition (Has second disc with 6 bonus tracks)
      • Disk 1
    • Track 1: With You Forever
    • Track 2: Wild Strawberries
    • Track 3: Shock to My System
    • Track 4: Baby
    • Track 5: Come Together
    • Track 6: We Have Tomorrow
    • Track 7: Lover
    • Track 8: No More Violence
    • Track 9: Embrace
    • Track 10: Dancing On the Water
    • Track 11: Freedom
    • Track 12: Die With Us
      • Disk 2
    • Track 1: Baby (Breakbot Remix)
    • Track 2: Sambanova (Sam La More Remix)
    • Track 3: Shock to My System (Noel Burgess No Tempo Mix)
    • Track 4: Five Hundred (Pedals)
    • Track 5: Shadow in the Shadows: The Opening/The Awakening Scorched Earth/Power Points
    • Track 6: Harmonic Fields
Baby (2008, CD Single)
    • Track 1: Baby [Radio Edit]
    • Track 2: Baby [Breakbot Remix]
    • Track 3: Baby [The Aston Shuffle 'Just Woah' Remix]
    • Track 4: Wild Strawberries [Album Version]


[edit] Collaborations

Enuff's Enuff (2004, collaboration with Empress Camielle and Abstract Rude as well as Adelaide's Juno, 12" Vinyl format, unsure who released it)

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

"Enuffs 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's played sax and keyboards on Pnau tracks), Juno is a rising star of the Australian music scene: he's about to sign a publishing deal with Engine Room (The Vines, Holly Valance) and release 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]


  • Una Noche (2004, CD Single, collaboration with Kid Creole & The Coconuts, released by Warner Music Australasia)
    • Track 1: Una Noche (Get Up) (Radio Mix)
    • Track 2: Una Noche (Get Up) (Toby Neal Mix)
    • Track 3: Una Noche (Get Up) (Hess's Bamboo Mix)
    • Track 4: Una Noche (Get Up) (Unplugged In The Congo Mix)
    • Track 5: Una Noche (Get Up) Extended Mix


[edit] Appearances

  • Homebake: Volume 7 - Track 13: Pnau - Fear & Love
  • West Papua: The Sound of the Morning Star - Track 12: Hurricane - Pnau
  • Big Day Out 2004 - Disk 2, Track 5: Pnau - Again
  • Underwater: Episode III - Disk 1, Track 4: Pnau - In The Valley
  • Clubber's Guide to 2004: Ministry of Sound - Disk 2, Track 1: Pnau – We Love The Fresh Kills
  • RATED G (release by Illpikl) - Track 7: Need Your Lovin' Baby
  • The 2008 Annual: Ministry of Sound - Disk 2, Track 2: Pnau - No More Violence
  • Corroboration - Track 9: Pnau & Stiff Gins - Ride
  • MOS: Clubber's Guide to 2008 - Disc 1, Track 1: Pnau - Wild Strawberries (Sam La More remix)
  • Triple J's Hottest 100: Volume 15 - Disc 2, Track 22: Pnau - Wild Strawberries
  • MOS: Electro House Sessions 2 - Disc 2, Track 2: Pnau - Lover
  • MOS: Mashed 4 - Disc 2, Track 5: Pnau - Baby (The Aston Shuffle Just Woah Remix)

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