Golden Features

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Golden Features
Birth nameThomas George Stell
Born1991 (age 32–33)
OriginSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres
  • Deep house
  • dance
Occupation(s)
  • DJ
  • producer
Years active2013–present
Labels
Website goldenfeatures.com

Thomas George Stell (born 1991), known professionally as Golden Features, is an Australian deep house / dance DJ and producer currently signed to Warner Bros. Records. Three singles, "Tell Me" featuring Nicole Millar, "No One" featuring Thelma Plum, and "Wolfie" featuring Julia Stone; received listener's votes for the Triple J Hottest 100. They were listed, successively, at No. 101 in 2014, No. 92 in 2015, and No. 70 in 2016. Golden Features performed at the Hard festival in 2016. His debut album, Sect (26 July 2018), reached No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

Contents

Career

2013-2017: Career commencement and EPs

Tom Stell has performed as Golden Features since 2014. [1] When Peking Duk members, Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles, relocated from Canberra to Sydney they shared a house with Stell for a year. [2] [3] He recalled, "Those two are like my brothers and without both of their support and guidance the Golden Features project never would have seen the light of day." [2]

Golden Features adopted a gold mask for performances and initially maintained his anonymity. He explained, "You go out, you do whatever you have to do, you put it out there in the world, and you don't expect personal credit for it. You just do it because it satisfies you... I didn't want my face plastered over things just because I prefer to have a character that I speak through." [4] As a solo artist, he released a four-track self-titled extended play in February 2014. [4] After he revealed his name, he observed, "it became a gimmick and people became more interested in who is making the music rather than the music itself. So I cut it off and put my face up everywhere. The initial idea was like the music speak for itself, it backfired but I stand by it." [3]

The producer provided a remix version for the Presets' single, "No Fun" (August 2014), which made it to No. 13 on the ARIA Club Tracks. [5] His EP provided a single, "Tell Me" featuring Nicole Millar, in the following month, which reached No. 14 on the ARIA Dance Singles and No. 7 on the ARIA Hitseekers Singles charts. [6] It missed being listed on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2014, and was placed in the Second Hottest 100 (101–200) at No. 101. [7]

The artist's second four-track EP, XXIV, was issued in July 2015, and reached No. 56 on the ARIA Singles Chart. [8] The reviewer from Oz EDM felt, "[he] is known for his genre-bending signature sound (apart from his Mask)... [the EP] offers nothing short of amazing production and originality and genuinely is something for dance fans to get excited about." [9] Its lead single, "No One" featuring Thelma Plum, peaked at No. 58 on the same chart. [8] It was listed at No. 92 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2015. [10]

Included on XXIV was "Telescope" featuring K.Flay, which the reviewer noticed provided, "intriguing RnB style vocals" by Flay and "offers a somewhat new style of what we have come to expect from Golden Features. Showing light elements of trap, 'Telescope''s upbeat tempo is less dark than the rest of the tracks." [9] In 2016 he released, "Wolfie" featuring Julia Stone, which reached No. 70 in Triple J Hottest 100, 2016. [10] Pilerats' Troy Mutton described, "it proved a little surprising to some. Not the out-and-out dark and brooding banger we've come to expect from [him], rather something sweeter, less intense. It's so sweet in fact that it's named after – and features a sound byte from – his young nephew... [Stone's] twee, Australian lilt is toned down ever-so-slightly to create something that is somehow both melancholic and euphoric." [11]

Golden Features supported Alison Wonderland on her tour of the United States in 2016 and undertook his own headlining tour of the US in February of the next year. [12]

2018-present: Sect and Sisyphus

He released his debut album, Sect, on 26 July 2018, which reached No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart and No. 1 on the iTunes Chart. [13] Sect was named a Triple J feature album, described as being an "eclectic mix of driving beats, dark choruses, blistering drops and ethereal vocals". [14]

Golden Features appeared on the Coachella DoLab stage during the first weekend of the 2019 festival. [15]

In July 2020 Golden Features collaborated with Odesza and released the project Bronson, the ten track album features appearances from lau.ra, Gallant, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. [16] Bronson debuted number 22 on the ARIA Albums Chart and at number 5 in the United States on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums Chart.[ citation needed ]

In 2022, Golden Features released "Touch" and "Vigil" and toured the United States of America in September of that year. [17]

In June 2023, Golden Features announced the release of his second studio album, Sisyphus. [18]

Discography

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with release date and selected chart positions shown
TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
AUS
[13]
Sect 11
Sisyphus
  • Released: 7 July 2023 [18]
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
  • Label: Warner Music Australasia
TBA

Collaborative albums

List of collaborative albums, with release date and label shown
TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
AUS
[20] 		US Dance
[21]
Bronson
(with Odesza as Bronson)		235

Extended plays

List of extended plays, with release date and label shown
TitleDetails
Golden Features
  • Released: 28 March 2014[ citation needed ]
  • Label: Warner Music Australia
    (825646215379)
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
XXIV
  • Released: 19 June 2015[ citation needed ]
  • Label: Parlophone
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
Raka
(with The Presets)
  • Released: 15 November 2019 [22]
  • Label: Modular Records, EMI
  • Format: Digital download, streaming

Singles

As lead artist

List of singles as lead artist, with year released and album shown
TitleYear Certifications Album
"Tell Me"
(featuring Nicole Millar) [23] 		2014Golden Features
"No One"
(featuring Thelma Plum) [24] 		2015XXIV
"Wolfie"
(featuring Julia Stone) [25] 		2016Wolfie / Funeral
"Falling Out" [26] 2018Sect
"Worship" [27]
"Always" [29]
"Woodcut"
(featuring Rromarin) [30]
"Paradise"
(with The Presets) [31] 		2019Raka
"Raka"
(with The Presets)
"Heart Attack"
(with Odesza as Bronson; featuring Lau.ra) [33] 		2020 Bronson
"Vaults"
(with Odesza as Bronson) [33]
"Dawn"
(with Odesza as Bronson; featuring Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs) [34]
"Keep Moving"
(with Odesza as Bronson) [35]
"Touch" [36] 2022Sisyphus
"Vigil" [17]
"Endit"
(with Rromarin) [37]
"Flesh" [18] 2023

Remixes

YearTitleArtistNote
2014"No Fun" The Presets
"Years of War" Porter Robinson featuring Breanne Düren and Sean Caskey
2017"Lose It" Flume featuring Vic Mensa
2018"Memories That You Call" [38] Odesza featuring Monsoonsiren

Mixes

YearTitleSongArtistNote
2014Hidden City"Voices" Fake Blood
"Baby F-16"Panteros666
"Turn It Up"Mercer Tchami Remix
"Must Be Love" Riton
"Lately"Jade Blue and
Frequency		Vox Remix
"None A Them" Hannah Wants and
Chris Lorenzo
"Roadgame" Kavinsky ID Remix
"Maybe We Are Different"Golden Features
"Give Me Back The Nights"Brodinski
"Guillotine"Golden Features
"Go Harder"AC Slaterfeaturing Dell Harris
"Moderation"Light Year
"Turn Of Phrase"TACHES
"Feel Good Inc." Gorillaz ID Remix
"Tell Me"Golden Featuresfeaturing Nicole Millar
2017 Diplo &
Friends Mix		"Guillotine"Golden FeaturesVIP Mix
"Diamonds"Malaa
"Dynamite" Boys Noize featuring Benga
"Baxter"Golden Features
"No Fun" The Presets Golden Features Remix
"Let There Be Light" Justice
"New Wav"Madeauxfeaturing Kaleena Zanders,
Wuki Remix
"Into The Night" Nero
"Tell Me"Golden Featuresfeaturing Nicole Millar
"Television Rules The Nation" Daft Punk
"Do You?"Golden Features
"Lazer Beams" Green Velvet and
Harvard Bass		Golden Features Remix
"Wolfie"Golden Featuresfeaturing Julia Stone
"Years Of War" Porter Robinson Golden Features Remix
"No One"featuring Thelma Plum Golden Features
"Saturate" The Chemical Brothers
"2 Live" Boys Noize
"Guillotine"Golden Features
"Propaganda" DJ Snake Habstrakt Remix
"Funeral"Golden Features
"Etude" Nero
"D.A.N.C.E." Justice
"Telescope"Golden Featuresfeaturing K.Flay

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual award ceremony event celebrating the Australian music industry.

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2023 Sisyphus Best Dance/Electronic Release Nominated [39]

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