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About Dom Dolla

Dom Dolla started producing under the name in the early 2010s, working out of Melbourne and self-releasing edits and bootlegs through Soundcloud before signing to Sweat It Out, the Sydney label that built much of the Australian house export pipeline through the 2010s. His first widely-circulated release on the label came in 2014, and a steady run of EPs and singles through the second half of the decade — built around a tech-house template that borrowed from Detroit and Chicago house, UK garage and the warmer end of the Australian club sound — built a touring base before the international breakthrough. Take It, released in 2018, was the inflection point. The track ran on BBC Radio 1's Pete Tong show, found rotation on Triple J at home, and gave Dom Dolla his first nomination at the ARIA Awards for Best Dance Release. He won the same category in 2019 for the follow-up You. The pandemic pause coincided with the release of San Frandisco in early 2021, which became one of the defining club records of that summer once venues reopened, reaching number one on the ARIA Club Tracks chart and lodging itself in DJ sets across the festival circuit for the better part of two years. Pump the Brakes followed in 2022, also winning an ARIA, and built around the same vocal-and-groove formula. Miracle Maker, the 2023 collaboration with British vocalist Clementine Douglas, was the biggest single of his career to that point, going platinum in Australia and the UK and reaching the top ten on the UK Singles Chart — a rare feat for an instrumental-leaning house record. Eat Your Man, also from 2023, was the unlikely Nelly Furtado collaboration that pulled her back into pop conversation and gave Dom Dolla a crossover radio record without sacrificing the underlying club groove. He runs his releases primarily through Sweat It Out at home and Three Six Zero Recordings internationally, and tours under the management arm of the same Three Six Zero group, which also handles the touring schedules for Calvin Harris and other large electronic acts. Live work is divided between the headline tour — the format that has progressed from clubs to amphitheaters and arenas — and a parallel DJ-set circuit that still books him into the kind of warehouse and club rooms he started in. The Coachella mainstage booking in 2024 marked the point at which the headline format moved firmly into stadium and arena scale, and the booking pattern since has tracked that trajectory rather than retreating from it. He has not released a full-length album as of the most recent touring cycle — his catalogue is built around singles, EPs and mix series — and the live show is built around the catalogue rather than promoting any single project.

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