The Aston Shuffle

The Aston Shuffle, an Australian electronic group, moves fluidly between the sweeping festival anthems associated with Swedish House Mafia and David Guetta and the more introspective indie approach favored by compatriots the Presets and Pnau. Emerging in the mid-2000s through remixes and standalone tracks, the project later concentrated on progressive house, resulting in the full-length releases Seventeen Past Midnight (2011) and Photographs (2014).

Mikah Freeman, Vance Musgrove, and Ross McGrath formed the act in 2006. Their first single, “For Everyone,” appeared the following year. In 2008 the trio joined Kissy Sell Out to assemble the Ministry of Sound collection Mashed, Vol. 4. After McGrath departed, Freeman and Musgrove carried on as a duo.

Early in 2011 they performed as support for David Guetta and Armand Van Helden at the Shore Thing New Year’s Eve event on Bondi Beach. Their debut album, Seventeen Past Midnight, arrived on the Downright imprint that April. The 2013 single “Can’t Stop Now” surfaced on Casablanca, and the track later appeared on the 2014 follow-up Photographs, issued through EMI/Universal domestically and handled independently elsewhere. The record adopted an atmospheric indie-electronic palette reminiscent of the Presets and Pnau, incorporating vocal contributions from Kaelyn Behr, Mayer Hawthorne, Joel Compass, and additional guests.

Subsequent years brought further singles such as “Don’t Let Go” featuring Max Marshall, “Make a Wrong Thing Right” with Micah Powell, and “Everything I Got.”