Oh he just…sends it!
The last time the Gold Coast pro surfer Paul Fisher called me was five or six years ago. It was eight pm and I was about to sit down to a delicious dinner with my (then) wife and (still) two sons. It was a Skype call from America, three in the morning or thereabouts in LA, which gave it some importance.
I removed my bib, drained my pitcher of department store red wine. (Family man.)
Was Fisher in trouble? Did my little pal require serious counsel?
As the pixels settled down to a clear picture, Fisher appeared and ordered a girl to “Show Derek ya tits! Ha ha ha ha ha!”
And so on.
Recently, Fisher, who used to perform in a DJ duo called Cut Snake with the former pro Leigh Sedley, released the track Losing It which has been wowing crowds at music festivals around the world.
From the website EDM Sauce.
“Losing It” has been one of the most played ID‘s in DJ sets all summer. From tech house DJ’s to Hardwell last week at the main stage of Ultra Europe, “Losing It” has fans losing it all over the world. With distinct tech house sounds as well as a super groovy house drop, “Losing It” is a track that’ll be in my rotation for a LONG time.
From Australia’s national youth broadcaster Triple J:
FISHER has dropped a banger that house music heads have been frothing for since its live debut last year. Despite only being released today, ‘Losing It’ has already amassed over 13,000 hits on Shazam and millions of views online. That’s largely thanks to DJs spinning rips in their sets from video of FISHER playing playing the track live in one of his two Coachella 2017 sets.
Following on from ‘Crowd Control‘ (Best New Music in April), ‘Ya Kidding‘ and ‘Stop It‘, ‘Losing It’ lays down a throbbing bass-aided beat that’s sure to bring blisters to your feet, whether in your loungeroom, at the club, or alongside thousands of fellow fans when he tour as part of Listen Out festival.
Dance music fans on Reddit thrilled to his live sets at Coachella.
HE SENDS IT WITH A HANDFLICK!!! Never have I seen such a bold nonchalant dj maneuver.
holy fuck what an ID. This dude is far and away my #1 DJ I want to see live this year.
Just saw him in Brooklyn this past weekend at Schmanzki. It’s quite possibly the worst venue in NY. Easily the worst ive been to, so heads up to anyone else. Despite the venue, he was hands down one of the most fun sets i’ve been to and i’m not even a huge house fan. Dude’s energy is infectious.
Watch here!
(And, here, surfing Shippies with Ryan Hipwood and Mark Mathews.)
Five years ago he told me he was getting 5 racks for a set ($5K USD). I don’t even want to know what his rate is now.
Fella sure does love attention. Good luck to him, someone’s gotta’ be the show pony.
fish is arguably the most successful ex pro surfer of all time. still rips, literally a demigod for a wife and is a successful edm DJ and still gets to travel and party. What a fak’n winna.
This guy is a legend, the stuff he used to do with prosurfing was actually funny.
It’s the personality
Fish has always been an absolute LORD. Rarely too serious or butthurt, always just wilding out rooting sexy chicks, then can turn around and get waves at Shippies. Pro surfing needs more wild dickheads like this.
This guy is superior to me in every way.
As a former tree dancer and singer myself , I am of the belief that it is an activity , though totally ridiculous and futile , capable of making ones non existant soul glow .The Shit Happens when the you fall out of the tree .
Never saw the video ,but you commented from Nias joyfully dancing in the trees .
Hi boss , just interested to know what you were dancing to while swinging from the trees in Nias ?
a shipsterns flogging or a night at Coachella? what would you choose? more chance of a full recovery from shipsterns.
MDMA is one hell of a drug!
What happened to Sedley? Left before the strippers arrived?
Fisher ruling it as a DJ confirms everything I’ve ever suspected about DJ’s. Good on him.
Panadol for the headache?
Apologies I made that remark before actually investigating the ‘music?’ Now I’ve had a listen and fuck me is that stuff people like listen to and shit? Fuck. That’s fucked.
Electro music in Europe is huge since seminal electro act Kraftwerk and Jean Michel Jarre were boys in the 70s .( Heard Jarre’s work for the first time circa 78 as a kid sitting in the Sydney Opera House waiting for a surf film to start ) . Whether it is good or not is a cultural and personal preference ?
But Europe and US have another type of e-music, much better than this shit today:
The new e-music in Europe reborn in the 80’s, followed to the great boom in mid 90’s.
This boom in the 90’s changed mainly the way of dressing (mainly 2000 and ahead), arts (street arts) influencing even in the surf fashion (sportive fashions like Adidas, Puma , Nike,
In Europe: New Order, Pacific 808 State,Everything But The Girl (yeah, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watts are reponsible too for this boom), Prodigy, Underworld, Chemical Brothers, Paul Oakenfold, AIR, Orbit, Kruder & Dormeister (Salmonella Dub…), Groove Armada, Zero 7, Ellen Allien and others
In US: Thievery Corporation, DJ Shadow, Telfon Tel Aviv, The Crystal Method and others
All this bands or guys, are musicians
Exists a gigantic difference between this for guys (s… like this) like Tiesto, Aviicii and the queue that follows …
I have a big soft spot for Groove Armada and Massilia Sound System and Asian Dub Foundation .
Totally off subject . So many different styles of music have made a comeback or become hybrids but was dancing with my kids recently watching the Specials on the Old Grey Whistle Test ( A message to you Rudy on you tube ) and thought there was a place in this modern world seemingly more and more polarized by race, religion and nationality to bring back something , Ska music , which had already said a big No to that shit more than a generation ago .
Totally James agreed and big fan from all them and the movement Two-Tone!!! Great sound, performance, fashion!
Specials, The Beat ( and the all variations The English Beat, General Public), Madness, The Selecter, The Untouchables (fantastic from US)
Away ahead of this today divided world
But people also listen to Jack Johnson. THAT is fucked.
Harumph! when I were a kid… call that ‘music’… kids these days… blah blah etc.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
WSL missed the bus on this one. WC for Fischer in the comp and the live music gig.
Legendary
I’ll stick with fischerspooner thanks.
I actually thought Fisher may have been part of Fisherspooner. Seriously. I thought this story was a joke when I first read it
For the sake of argument, let’s say Fisher’s #’s are defined as “success”. How would you define what happens when Fisher can’t follow up ” Losing It”?
His other tracks were released before “Losing It” and have gotten a lot of worldwide play, hence the Coachella slot. “Losing It” IS the follow up.
I’m a grumpy local ya Nerd. I just learned he was a DJ for christ sake!
I know I know, you be all like “man!…you outta been there! You got no idea!” I know I know I OttoBeenThere, but shit, Nerd, wait you’re telling me he released other tracks? That’s rhetorical as I’ve just learned. So much information. Who are we talking about again? Which Coachella? 2017? Help us Nerd! Help us understand!
All i understand is that Paul Fisher’s life is better than mine and I got it pretty good.
Be careful what you wish for ?
Don’t be too hard on yourself . We , the colonials, could not avoid the Fish ,fueled until recently by Reef, to cause havoc at surfing events worldwide ( at least the US Open and Snapper ) . Perhaps you can help me out with where what why is a Coachella ? I thought it was a piss take on BG’s former office boy Big Mike Ciaramella whose campaign to get Toledo to skip the US Open and familiarize himself better with the reef has paid dividends . Hence Coach(ciaram)ella ?
He’ll be losing it….
His track ‘stop it’ is better. Bass line Barry White would be proud of
Love him or hate him he is winning at the life.
No doubt about that. You seen his girlfriends rig. Fuck he is winning at life all right.
Call this cute? https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Looks like a slightly uglier version of my dream girlfriend….
Lacks facial hair ? Or a third breast on the middle of her back ? (Not pretty but fun to dance with )
Fat Boy Slim mixed that track in a set for Cercle at Brighton beach. That’s some solid validation
Nothing quite like a double fisting on the Rhine though. German elasticity cannot be beaten.
Du bist der Hammer Wiggs !
as aftas ardem doem, as hemorróidas idem.
Got mine removed 2 months ago . Thought it was going to be simple , easy and relatively painless . I was wrong ,wrong and wrong . Ouuuuuuuccccch !
This is a joke we do in Brasil about speak german
If you put in the Google Translator “listen” you will see
But need to be speak quickly hahaha
But what if I just don’t care? Is he still winning?
Yep