Main Stage - Live at Laneway Festival, Sydney

Hermitude

Elefant Traks, Australia

Hermitude formed in 2001 with the musical partnering of Blue Mountains lads Luke Dubs (Luke Dubber) and Elgusto (Angus Stuart). They’d performed in jazz and funk bands together since 1994 (Dubs was 16 and Elgusto was just 11) as well as in the live hip hop of Explanetary. The offspring of musical families, Dubs' father Keith Dubber was a trumpeter plying his trade in major musicals for over 40 years, while Elgusto’s father John Stuart is a composer and musician/engineer. Elgusto’s Uncle Hamish Stuart is one of Australia’s most in-demand drummers. Some releases, national tours and various international support slots (Dizzee Rascal, RJD2 and DJ Krush) later, Hermitude began to exhibit the maturity and development of their musical vision. Their Cuban-influenced rhythms (Elgusto undertook percussion studies in Cuba as a teen) had blended elegantly with their formal jazz and classical background breathing new life into their instrumental hip hop sound.