APTS (pronounced “Apartments”) is a collaboration between Art Pleasley and Thomas Shaw.
As Art Pleasley, Angus Fitz-Bugden makes angular emo funk while Thomas Shaw is where Mike Watson goes to craft cinematic laptop bangers. Having known each other for nearly a decade - and for as many years having pledged to make music together - the time was finally right. Starting out as one long-overdue track between two Lismore/Lennox Head producers, this fated musical and social experiment effortlessly grew into enough material to take to the stage.
APTS fuses modern electronica and future-soul with vintage hip hop and pop; Brought to life as a two-man, live/sampled stage show which has to date opened for YEO, Outside The Academy (OTA) and fellow north-coasters Nocturnal Tapes. Their debut single Like a Pro - an ode to technology’s fickle role in an intercontinental relationship - cements the pair as a solid producing/songwriting duo with one foot planted in old school craft and the other in future-gazing experimentalism.
As Art Pleasley, Angus Fitz-Bugden makes angular emo funk while Thomas Shaw is where Mike Watson goes to craft cinematic laptop bangers. Having known each other for nearly a decade - and for as many years having pledged to make music together - the time was finally right. Starting out as one long-overdue track between two Lismore/Lennox Head producers, this fated musical and social experiment effortlessly grew into enough material to take to the stage.
APTS fuses modern electronica and future-soul with vintage hip hop and pop; Brought to life as a two-man, live/sampled stage show which has to date opened for YEO, Outside The Academy (OTA) and fellow north-coasters Nocturnal Tapes. Their debut single Like a Pro - an ode to technology’s fickle role in an intercontinental relationship - cements the pair as a solid producing/songwriting duo with one foot planted in old school craft and the other in future-gazing experimentalism.