Backstage Soundtrack
Dance & Electronic
There's no better way to discover new music, than to chat to a musician about songs they love. Tune into these backstage conversations between awesome Australian musos and Tom from Hot Dub Time Machine.
Location:
Australia
Description:
There's no better way to discover new music, than to chat to a musician about songs they love. Tune into these backstage conversations between awesome Australian musos and Tom from Hot Dub Time Machine.
Language:
English
Episodes
Kram
11/15/2021
Hot Dub chats to Kram from Spiderbait. It's an awesome conversation with music from Vivaldi, the Sex Pistols and everything in between. You can hear all the songs here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Bn20XlCQ1IEiQeLA3CoB0?si=0e42159c989a450b
Duration:00:56:42
Lime Cordiale
11/8/2021
Hot Dub chats to brothers Oli and Louis Leimbach from Lime Cordiale.
Recorded in October this is a delightful and rambly conversation covering everything from why apple crumble is the GOAT desert, the tragedy of Amy Winehouse and heaps of great music.
There's a spotify playlist of the songs here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1kd21UzTOZMAb3ufYk3rzz?si=9bf2a57558cb47d9
Duration:00:49:11
Nathan Cavaleri
11/1/2021
Tom chats to Australian Blues Guitar Legend: Nathan Cavaleri.
Nathan is known to most to aussies as the guitar prodigy who achieved phenomenal success at a ridiculously young age by shredding the blues on tv while also battling leukaemia. His life story is amazing, and I highly recommend you watch this doco about him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UIf8wlYjVw
This conversation was recorded in October 2021 over zoom, and features plenty of great music you can find here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Dfq7tCNg0WBeLUTSQAVtv?si=2ccc723d33c74701
Duration:00:50:41
Bag Raiders // Jack Glass
10/18/2021
Hot Dub chats to Jack from Bag Raiders. Tunes from the interview can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HinxXCubqyJYmw86fUe4w?si=7aaba1b4fd3349f2
Jack is one of our favourite people to talk to about music. In this episode we get into West African drumming, Zimbabwean thumb pianos, Japanese solo piano music as well as east 17, dua lipa, daft punk and much more. We hope you dig it!
Duration:00:46:08
Ben Lee
10/11/2021
Tom chats to aussie music legend, Ben Lee.
Ben is a singer, songwriter, and Australian music legend who has had a amazing career where he’s done everything from writing huge hit songs like 'Catch My Disease' and 'Cigarettes Will Kill You,' to musicals about beer, albums about islam and inventing electro yoga.
Songs from the pod are here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3e243EcYARglH6pptsQ34I?si=8c0ef0edede34db5
Duration:00:47:28
Tom Cardy
9/27/2021
Hot Dub chats to musician, comedian and tiktok superstar: Tom Cardy.
Tom creates incredible, hilarious viral videos that have seen him create a vast online audience. Check out HYCYBH here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--9kqhzQ-8Q
Here's the songs from the interview: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HvthJelSXyEQxpzlTpiJD?si=d015054bcbf64a73
Duration:00:50:37
KLP
9/20/2021
Tom chats to KLP. Recorded in August 2021
KLP or Kristy Lee Peters is best known for her growing back catalogue of bangers, featuring her distinctive vocal sound. She’s worked with Skrillex, What So Not and many more, and 2020 she teamed up with Stace Cadet for her biggest hit yet: Energy. In this interview we chat about her incredibly musical upbringing which saw her singing on ad jingles in primary school, in a girl band signed to major label at 13, and how some early knock backs made her even more determined to succeed in music.
Playlist of tunes from the pod is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Ml2SHor3miCJs0wcrg9JL?si=f02c34cce2f24d3f
Duration:00:50:12
Adam Hyde // Peking Duk // Keli Holiday
9/13/2021
Tom chats to Adam Hyde from Peking Duk and Keli Holiday. Recorded in August 2021.
This conversation is joyful, chaotic and featuring a diverse and surprising collection of music.
You can listen to all the songs in full here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4AE0pAM80bdJFAvGoKLKkk?si=5a0111b20b98407a
Duration:00:40:28
Sam Hales // Jungle Giants
9/6/2021
Tom chats to Sam Hales from Jungle Giants. Recorded in August 2021
Sam makes gorgeous, funky, soulful music and has created an amazing career fuelled entirely by his own talent and hustle. He writes, produces and releases his own tunes and has become one of the biggest artists in Australia.
They listen to some gorgeous, eclectic music along the way, you can find those tunes here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2QagV4acNB2u5tT6TpqISd?si=7310c37b229e4097
Duration:00:47:28
Paul Mac
2/17/2019
Paul Mac is a legend of Australian Dance music. He was there for the birth of the sound in the 80's, he was there for the first, huge raves at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion, he has been an underground legend and mainstream superstar, winning Arias, making number 1 hits and sustaining a 30 year career in electronic music. Now is the perfect time to look back and reflect on the origins of dance music and remember the love and idealism it stood for. And there is no better person to tell that story than Paul Mac.
Duration:01:13:29
Wes Carr
11/28/2018
Wes Carr is known to most as the winner of Australian Idol back in 2008, but there is so much more to the music and mind of this wonderful man. His musical history starts with his first paid gig at the age of 8 and he’s lead a true musician's life ever since: full of ecstatic peaks and lonely troughs. His music ranges between rock, folk, roots, Americana, blues and he’s passionate about the art of song writing. He’s toured and performed with Tom across Australia and this interview was a rare moment for the two friends to learn a bit more about each other.
Duration:01:05:39
Pat Stevenson
10/23/2018
Pat Stevenson is pretty much the best music photographer in Australia. He shoots for all the key members of Australia’s dance music scene, gets free tickets to every music festival in the country and is constantly in demand. He’s also a great DJ, having performed for massive crowds as part of Sosueme DJs and rocked literally thousands of parties around the country. In this episode we find out about Pat’s delinquent teenage years that saw him expelled from school, and how his love of dance music and photography became his obsession. Tom and Pat also have a great chat about what hedonism and what makes a perfect party, and Pat shares some tips for young photographers trying to get into the biz.
Duration:01:10:01
Osher Günsberg
9/25/2018
Osher Günsberg is an awesome guy to talk music with. He’s best known through his TV work as host of the Bachelor, Australian Idol and many more, but he has a long musical history and is super passionate about a lot of obscure and wonderful musicians. Tom and Osher chat about his musical life, how he almost became a rock star, the joys of John Cage, Van Halen, Prince, Jethro Tull and many many more.
Duration:01:26:16
Tom Thum
8/27/2018
Tom Thum is pretty much the best in the world at making music with his mouth. He’s a champion beatboxer, has the highest viewed Ted X talk of all time with 66 million views, and has survived heart attacks, graffiti escapades and more to become an independent artist creating his own future. The two Tom’s got together to catch up over a few organic drinks in July 2018, in Sydney Australia.
Duration:00:54:24
Client Liaison
7/29/2018
Client Liaison are intriguing: Their music is nostalgic but also totally fresh and amazing, they reference everything from Diner's Club commercials to kookaburras and they bring two giant water coolers to every show. But at the heart of it all are their awesome songs. Tom sits down with Monty and Harvey to find out what music inspires them and how they wrote their most iconic tunes.
Duration:01:19:24
Touch Sensitive
7/10/2018
Touch Sensitive (Michael Di Francesco) is one of Tom's favourite musicians: he's a bass maestro who makes gorgeous tunes and has an extraordinary musical knowledge. In this episode we learn a bit more about how Touch learnt his craft, what is Italo-disco, and how everyone has their own definition of funk.
Duration:01:10:39
Illy
6/19/2018
Illy is an Aussie Hiphop artist with a unique sound who has always been determined to do his own thing. He now has his own record label, plays massive venues around the country and was in the hottest 100 for 8 consecutive years. Tom and Illy have a great chat about how he made it all happen, his influences and some truely awful gigs.
Duration:00:57:35
Dena Amy
6/5/2018
Dena Amy is an awesome house DJ and producer from Australia. She's also Dena Kaplan, an amazing actor, dancer and singer with fans all over the world, many from her iconic role as Abigail in the cult TV show 'Dance Academy.' She's also an absolutely delightful person to chat to, with a story that has taken her from South Africa, to Sydney, New York and beyond, always working incredibly hard to follow her dreams. In this episode Tom and Dena chat about her amazing life and delve into her current passion: house music.
Duration:01:00:21
Young Franco
4/3/2018
It seems like everyone wants to be a producer these days, so how do you stand out? For Young Franco it all began by discovering 90’s hiphop in his early teens and trying to recreate those legendary beats made 20 years ago. Franco aka. Joey has created some gorgeous dance music, toured globally and created a career for himself all by the age of 23. He tells Tom how he did it and shares some awesome music...
Duration:00:50:27
Paces
3/27/2018
Paces aka. Mikey Perry from the Gold-Coast is one of Tom's favourite producers and people. He’s known for his super distinctive production style, which is somehow tropical, sparse, beautiful, intense and really funky. He's also a lovely guy who has worked very hard for a long time to achieve his success. We love this episode and hope you do too <3
Duration:01:16:46