Cookin' on 3 Burners
Melbourne "Hammond organ trio" (actually a quartet-plus when vocalist Kylie Auldist joins) formed in 1997: organist Jake Mason, guitarist Dan West, drummer Ivan Khatchoyan. They predate and helped seed the soul-funk revival scene that also produced The Bamboos and the Australian soul wave; their foundation is '50s/'60s jazz and soul with the Hammond as the defining voice.^[raw/articles/wikipedia-cookin-on-3-burners.md]
Their 2009 single "This Girl" (with Auldist) became a global phenomenon when French producer Kungs remixed it in 2016: #1 in France, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Latvia and Scotland, #2 in the UK, diamond in France — arguably the most commercially successful modern Hammond recording ever.^[raw/articles/wikipedia-cookin-on-3-burners.md] The band kept releasing (Lab Experiments Vol. 1/2, 2017/2018) and remains active, with Cookin' the Books released 31 October 2025 on Soul Messin' Records and a 2026 European festival date (Saint-Paul Soul Funk Festival).^[raw/articles/wikipedia-cookin-on-3-burners.md]
Mason's Jake Mason + The Horns Syndicate appears on the same 2026 festival bill alongside the-pulitzers — the Australian and Dutch wings of the modern-organ-scene on one stage.