Infusion

Certain Australian rock groups have recently been hailed as the "saviours" of the genre by the international press. "Electronic music is dead," the taste-making mags eagerly gush, "and rock is very much back in vogue - with antipodean acts at the vanguard." The argument media mavens put forward is this: How can dance music – a genre based around overweight, overpaid, old-aged, po-faced DJs spinning non-descript repetitive beats – compete with the kind of "incendiary" live performances and raw, "real" recordings delivered by the leaders of the rock renaissance? How could electronic music ever be as energetic or exciting as a screaming, spitting, eardrum-splitting rock set?