Based out of Montreal, Canada, Adventure Club is electronic music duo Leighton James and Christian Srigley. James and Srigley got together and started making music in a hardcore pop-punk band in high school. As they started to get serious about working together, though, their tastes evolved and changed. Bored with the sound of pop-punk, they moved away from punk, over to EDM.
They put their first single out — a remix of “Daisy by Brand New — in 2009, and it got them their first real exposure when it got put on The Hype Machine MP3 blog aggregator. Adventure Club’s biggest influences are Flux Pavilion, Bring Me to the Horizon, Tiesto, Greeley Estates, and Skrillex. Their signature sound involves a lot of high-pitched, female vocals over driving beats and heavy drops.
The boys got their first real breakthrough in social media when they got their first music video published on UKF Dubstep’s YouTube channel. They’re now managed by The Standard Group. Even with exposure and management, they’re still keeping it real and keeping it simple, using Cakewalk SONAR, probably the least used production tool in the whole world of EDM.
Adventure Club has toured North America, Europe, and Australia, as well as playing a lot of music festivals, including the Ultra Music Festivals in Miami and Seoul, South Korea and the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas.
Christian and Leighton are young, enthusiastic, and they have a serious love and zeal for all things EDM. They’re still learning and growing, developing their style and perfecting their chops. As quickly as they got bored with pop-punk, it’s going to be seriously interesting to see what kinds of intricacies they come up with on the electronic side of music making.
