April 28, 2025 • 13 mins
Celebrating his first #1 on the U.S. dance chart AND his first time playing solo at Coachella, Austin Millz joined us for the first time on America's Dance 30! He shared how "Hot & Mysterious" was born w Kah-Lo, how long ago they started working on it, and how many Vs there were of the song before its final release. He also talked about his prep for his set at Coachella!
We also got to know Austin better w #FinkysFirsts!!
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We also got to know Austin better w #FinkysFirsts!!
Find out about:
- if music was the first thing he wanted to get into growing up
- if 'Austin Millz' was his first choice for an artist project name
- his first time performing for a crowd
- the first time he found out he was playing Coachella
- the first time hearing one of his songs on the radio
- the first dance song that made him fall in love w EDM
- the first rooftop video he recorded
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Austin, We've got a lot to catch up on, including
your smash Hot A Mysterious with coll Lo, your tour,
your Coachella appearance, and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Getting to know you a little better.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Austin Mills, Welcome to America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Thanks for having me in dance counting down the biggest
dance songs in the country.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
This is America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We were just talking about how crazy Miami Music Week
is because you know, I've known your name forever, but
we had never gotten the chance to meet or chat before.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Now this is the second time we're talking.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
In like a month, right, Yeah, congratulations on a Hot
A Mysterious going number one. That is so incredible for
you in call Low, so like unexpected.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
This is my first record.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
To get the charge like this and to see the
people receiving it and being receptive is a beautiful feeling.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
And yeah, I love it. It's great.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That is so incredible.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I can't wait to talk about how this smash was
born with call Low. But first, since this is your
first time on America's dans thirty, let's get to know
Austin Mills a little better.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
With Finkey's first Good.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So I read that you found your love for music
in high school?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Now I love finding out the origin story of artists.
Was music the first thing you wanted to get into
or was there something else you wanted to be when
you were growing up?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I think music for me was a hobby growing up
in New York. I would see it around. I would
hear it around o'b everywhere. Everyone in New York is
just so much swag. It's just like you hear the
music in the streets. So music to me was just
another part of life. It was a part everyone had
it like growing up. My family was just like a thing,
the same way you watch TV. Music is like another compartment.
So for me, I wasn't. I don't think for me
(02:08):
I wanted to be any a musician or anything on music.
It was just like a hobby. I want to be
a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I actually I want to be an entertainment lawyer.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I yeah, I like law and I like journalism, So
I thought I was gonna maybe be like, you know,
a broadcast journalist, and then yeah, music just be fell
in my lot.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Honestly, well, I knew I liked you for a reason
because I actually wanted to be a lawyer growing up
as well, but then I met somebody in radio and
that dream went out the window.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
So do you deal with your own contracts?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
No, Honestly, I don't have a great team to do that,
so I don't worry about that anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, it's probably better that way now. Austin Mills is
of course a take on your real name. But when
you were trying to decide on an artist project name,
was Austin Mills your first choice? Or were the other
names you were considering?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
So funny, when I was a producer in my early days,
my name was like was young Down. I could have
figured out else, let's go young Don Productions, But no,
Austin Millis just came natural. And when I was in
college I forgot how I really got the name. People
just come like eight mils. So Austin Mills. It feels
a natural show. It's a play on my last name.
So it just everything worked out that way.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well I'm glad it did. It's a great name.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Now you've got your Radiance tour going on right now,
you've got your Coachella performance. Do you remember the first
time performing for a crowd?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
My first show was a Red Bull three style DJ
competition semi finals. Yeah, don't ask me how that happened,
but it did. My friend worked at Red Bull. He
kind of like, hey, bro, we need another person to
enter this contest. You DJ, al right at that time,
outdn't DJ.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I was like I was making.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Beats and I was performing live with my NPC, So
I was like making beats at like rap showcases and stuff.
So I guess you can call that some type of DJ,
but it wasn't like scratching a turn typelism. So I
had to learn how to do all this stuff in
two weeks with the Red Bull competition, and I performed.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I did it. Don't ask me how I did or
where I ended up. And after that show was over, I.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Figured, you know what, I'm going to make my mission
to really learn how to do the craft. Respect the craft,
learn all about the craft, study the craft, and from
that day for I was like, no, I'm doing this.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And of course those competitions are next level, Like I've
seen Craze in there and he is insane.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, it's the next level.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Did you have to go up against Craze?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
No, I'm trying to think who was in New York.
I'm trying to I don't remember who ended up winning,
but yeah, it was. It was. It was one of
those ones.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, speaking of your Coachella performance, when was the first
time you found out you were going to be performing
at Coachella?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
It was actually last year. I forgot what date it was.
I think I wouldn't say even November October. But my
manager FaceTime and she was like, are you having a
good day. It's been a pretty chill day. She will
have some news for you. And then she told me, and.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I flung the phone across the room. I couldn't believe.
I was pros for like fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, I saw your post about that being on your
bucket list, which is so incredible.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Congratulations on that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Leading up to it, of course we're talking before your performance.
Do you have to prepare differently for such an epic
performance like that?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I mean, if you look, I'm in my studio room
right now. I got my cdjamser day. I've been prepping
for weeks. I got some surprise guests in store. It's
gonna be fun, you know. I got fifty minutes. I'm
trying to make the most out of the fifty minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That is gonna be incredible. I can't wait to see that. Well,
congratulations again on it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Of course you've had some amazing songs on the radio,
But do you remember the first time actually hearing one
of your songs on the radio?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Man, that's great question. I really don't remember. Growing up
in New York, you know, we have those classic stations,
and I feel like there was a time I produced
a record for somebody and the song was on the radio.
But in terms of my own original music, I don't
even think I've experienced it. I've experienced it on satellite radio,
but I haven't experienced it on the what do you
(06:00):
guys call it?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Like, what do you terrestrial radio?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yeah, I haven't experienced the moment yet interested radio. So
if you guys keep running it up, maybe I can
hear in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
But I haven't experienced any of my original music.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I experienced at restaurants, I think, different places, but I
haven't experienced that radio yet, so that moment hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, first of all, I'm gonna have to make some
calls to my friends at KTU, and we're gonna have
to change.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
That I'm actually in La. I'm in La.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Oh Okay. Then I'll make some calls to kids at FM.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Don't worry, please please please.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Now, what's it like hearing one of your songs when
you're eating in a restaurant?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It's amazing, Like I'll just be there if it's friends
or whatever. In a way, this is it's just like
an amazing feeling. One time, I was in forty second
Street and I think it was around my birthday, and
I was leaving H and M, and then my song
came on H and M and I told Walltz back
in the still and I act like I was shopping.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Are you the one to point it out first? Or
your friends the ones to point it out?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
If they're my real friend, they'll probably point out first
because they know my music. But if no, it's usually me.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Now, speaking of music, do you remember the first dance
song that made you fall in love with d m Ooh.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That's a great question, you know what.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I don't really want to be like cliche or anything,
but the sample time mysterious is Pala Joey's Hot music,
and I remember growing up my parents used to play
that song in the car and I loved it. So
I don't want to make this is not playing or
calculator or anything. But honestly, that song was like the
first classic New York house song that I really fell
(07:40):
in love with. That And there's a song called following
Me eli Us. I don't know if I said the
name the right, but I used. I love like that
classic like eighties nineties like that feel good that house music.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So I love like the nineties New York vibes, like
that's my thing.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Man, man, that's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's actually two weeks in the row that nineties music
is coming up. I was talking to Blondish last week
and she was talking about songs like mister Vane.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I don't know if you remember that song.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Oh that was just in my record box. I got
a ream because I'm like, you know what, would anybody
even know this? Like that comes to my shows, like
we do they even know what this is? I remember even
being in school, like hearing like everybody dance now see
sees in Factor.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Like all those like songs in that era.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I didn't even really know that was like dance music
because sometimes it was like those jock jams or like
the way they were like position.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It was just like pop music, but like not pop music.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Right, that's just dance music. Yeah, like LaBouche too.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, the grooves in the heart oh.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
See light, Oh my god. Anyways, we need to get
We're going to be spending all hour on this.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I love that stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It was really a great era of music.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Now, finally, in Finky's first, you know, you post a
lot of videos playing rooftops with your controller.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Do you remember the first time ever playing on a rooftop?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah? I did it.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
It was actually I did it kind of like the
week before I moved out of New York and I
was like, you know, let me just go on the rooftop.
I never seen anyone do it, but I was like,
I just want to just make music outside. So I
made a video in the rooftop and it was actually raining.
I had like my mom film it or something like.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It was crazy crazy, it's crazy crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I did it and it kind of took off, and
then I was like, you know what, Let'm just keep
doing it. I moved LA and I just kept doing
it and it became our thing.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It's definitely cool vibes. Now, do you have monitors? In
or are there speakers or.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh so if I'm using the machine, I plug it
to the laptop, use the laptop speakers. If I'm using
the NPC, the NPC has has battery charge and has
speakers in NPC.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Gotcha.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well, let's talk about your incredible smash, Hot and Mysterious
with Kyle Low.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
How was this song born?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
First of all, Kylo was magnificent. She's amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You hear her voice like, it's so infectious. So we
were in a studio, we had a session a couple
months before that. We tried to cook something up. We
did something, but I didn't feel like that was quite it.
And then we got in the studio again a couple
months later and I made the beat on the spot
in the studio.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
She cooked it up.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I'm like, oh, this is this is gonna to be
the one like and then she we're feeling it. But
then I'm like, you know what, I want to do
something different too. I want to add a sample to it.
So then I switch up to beat and then the
beat is what it is right now, and then it
just felt so good.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Came together.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, I love it, man, I'm so happy about that
song and She's amazing, you know, from London to Harlem.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
We did it, you know, we just made it happen. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I told you in Miami that I agree with you.
She is incredible. And I told you in Miami that
that song needs to be used for a sink.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I mean it's perfect for sinks.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I mean hot misteris acronham H and M, H and M.
He's hitting me up.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Let's make it the theme song when you at H
and M you want to be Hot Mysterious.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It just makes sense, and you shouted them out earlier.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Now, are we ever gonna see the light of day
of the first song that you worked with Colo?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We could, like, I might play it at some shows.
It's a vibe, for sure, It's definitely vibe.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
So you never know.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well, back to Hot Mysterious. How long ago did you
guys start working on it?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I think we cut the vocals in winter twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Wow. Yeah, that is amazing. Is it tough to sit
on a song for that long?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's tough, It's really yeah, I bet. Now.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Something I love to find out about songs is how
many different v's there are from when you start working
on I love it that's pretty much everybody's reaction. Do
you remember what the final V was of Hot and Mysterious.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Could have been like the seven V eight, Oh, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Not too bad. It's not too bad now with your sound.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Like sometimes there's definitely more exports. So I'm just saying
like V in terms of like, all right, this is
the V that we can like send.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
To the label. There's definitely more vs though.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Now with Austin Mills songs, is there a lot of
tweaking that goes on from when you start working on it?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, I'm a perfectionist. But my song need I say more?
That I did with Jazzy before Hot Mysteries, that was
like we did it and it was probably like t
one point five v's.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It was that many v's.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
But there's other songs that there's a lot of ease
And I'm perfectionist, so I like, you know, finding the
perfect balance of when it's ready to go.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It's annoying, isn't it the same way?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, Like there's probably gonna be twelve versions of this
bounced down video by the time I'm done with.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
It, so annoying.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Well, congratulations on Hot and Mysterious with ky Loo going
number one.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Thank you, like, thank you for playing it, thanks for
like running it up, like, thanks for all the support.
It means a lot. I see the tweets too, I see.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Everything absolutely well. What's next for Austin Mills.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I'll be in a viza with Kaigo.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Hell yeah, oh my god, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I don't know, I probably shouldn't asked this, but is
this going to be your first show and I be
tha or have you played there before? So wow, So
there's a lot of first for you in twenty twenty five. Definitely,
this is the year of Austin Mills. Congratulations, Thank you
so much.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yeah, support me is everything. Let's let's let's get this.
Let's keep running number zo be hot, Let's keep me serious.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Austin Mills, thank you so much for your time with
us on America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Thank you so much. I have a great day. Peace.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
America's Dance thirty Counting down the biggest dance songs in
the country.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
America's Dance thirty
Austin, We've got a lot to catch up on, including
your smash Hot A Mysterious with coll Lo, your tour,
your Coachella appearance, and.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Getting to know you a little better.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Austin Mills, Welcome to America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Thanks for having me in dance counting down the biggest
dance songs in the country.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
This is America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We were just talking about how crazy Miami Music Week
is because you know, I've known your name forever, but
we had never gotten the chance to meet or chat before.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Now this is the second time we're talking.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
In like a month, right, Yeah, congratulations on a Hot
A Mysterious going number one. That is so incredible for
you in call Low, so like unexpected.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
This is my first record.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
To get the charge like this and to see the
people receiving it and being receptive is a beautiful feeling.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
And yeah, I love it. It's great.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That is so incredible.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I can't wait to talk about how this smash was
born with call Low. But first, since this is your
first time on America's dans thirty, let's get to know
Austin Mills a little better.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
With Finkey's first Good.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So I read that you found your love for music
in high school?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Now I love finding out the origin story of artists.
Was music the first thing you wanted to get into
or was there something else you wanted to be when
you were growing up?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I think music for me was a hobby growing up
in New York. I would see it around. I would
hear it around o'b everywhere. Everyone in New York is
just so much swag. It's just like you hear the
music in the streets. So music to me was just
another part of life. It was a part everyone had
it like growing up. My family was just like a thing,
the same way you watch TV. Music is like another compartment.
So for me, I wasn't. I don't think for me
(02:08):
I wanted to be any a musician or anything on music.
It was just like a hobby. I want to be
a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I actually I want to be an entertainment lawyer.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I yeah, I like law and I like journalism, So
I thought I was gonna maybe be like, you know,
a broadcast journalist, and then yeah, music just be fell
in my lot.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Honestly, well, I knew I liked you for a reason
because I actually wanted to be a lawyer growing up
as well, but then I met somebody in radio and
that dream went out the window.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
So do you deal with your own contracts?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
No, Honestly, I don't have a great team to do that,
so I don't worry about that anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, it's probably better that way now. Austin Mills is
of course a take on your real name. But when
you were trying to decide on an artist project name,
was Austin Mills your first choice? Or were the other
names you were considering?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
So funny, when I was a producer in my early days,
my name was like was young Down. I could have
figured out else, let's go young Don Productions, But no,
Austin Millis just came natural. And when I was in
college I forgot how I really got the name. People
just come like eight mils. So Austin Mills. It feels
a natural show. It's a play on my last name.
So it just everything worked out that way.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well I'm glad it did. It's a great name.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Now you've got your Radiance tour going on right now,
you've got your Coachella performance. Do you remember the first
time performing for a crowd?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
My first show was a Red Bull three style DJ
competition semi finals. Yeah, don't ask me how that happened,
but it did. My friend worked at Red Bull. He
kind of like, hey, bro, we need another person to
enter this contest. You DJ, al right at that time,
outdn't DJ.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I was like I was making.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Beats and I was performing live with my NPC, So
I was like making beats at like rap showcases and stuff.
So I guess you can call that some type of DJ,
but it wasn't like scratching a turn typelism. So I
had to learn how to do all this stuff in
two weeks with the Red Bull competition, and I performed.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I did it. Don't ask me how I did or
where I ended up. And after that show was over, I.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Figured, you know what, I'm going to make my mission
to really learn how to do the craft. Respect the craft,
learn all about the craft, study the craft, and from
that day for I was like, no, I'm doing this.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And of course those competitions are next level, Like I've
seen Craze in there and he is insane.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, it's the next level.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Did you have to go up against Craze?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
No, I'm trying to think who was in New York.
I'm trying to I don't remember who ended up winning,
but yeah, it was. It was. It was one of
those ones.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, speaking of your Coachella performance, when was the first
time you found out you were going to be performing
at Coachella?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
It was actually last year. I forgot what date it was.
I think I wouldn't say even November October. But my
manager FaceTime and she was like, are you having a
good day. It's been a pretty chill day. She will
have some news for you. And then she told me, and.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I flung the phone across the room. I couldn't believe.
I was pros for like fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, I saw your post about that being on your
bucket list, which is so incredible.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Congratulations on that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Leading up to it, of course we're talking before your performance.
Do you have to prepare differently for such an epic
performance like that?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I mean, if you look, I'm in my studio room
right now. I got my cdjamser day. I've been prepping
for weeks. I got some surprise guests in store. It's
gonna be fun, you know. I got fifty minutes. I'm
trying to make the most out of the fifty minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That is gonna be incredible. I can't wait to see that. Well,
congratulations again on it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Of course you've had some amazing songs on the radio,
But do you remember the first time actually hearing one
of your songs on the radio?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Man, that's great question. I really don't remember. Growing up
in New York, you know, we have those classic stations,
and I feel like there was a time I produced
a record for somebody and the song was on the radio.
But in terms of my own original music, I don't
even think I've experienced it. I've experienced it on satellite radio,
but I haven't experienced it on the what do you
(06:00):
guys call it?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Like, what do you terrestrial radio?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yeah, I haven't experienced the moment yet interested radio. So
if you guys keep running it up, maybe I can
hear in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
But I haven't experienced any of my original music.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I experienced at restaurants, I think, different places, but I
haven't experienced that radio yet, so that moment hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, first of all, I'm gonna have to make some
calls to my friends at KTU, and we're gonna have
to change.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
That I'm actually in La. I'm in La.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Oh Okay. Then I'll make some calls to kids at FM.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Don't worry, please please please.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Now, what's it like hearing one of your songs when
you're eating in a restaurant?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It's amazing, Like I'll just be there if it's friends
or whatever. In a way, this is it's just like
an amazing feeling. One time, I was in forty second
Street and I think it was around my birthday, and
I was leaving H and M, and then my song
came on H and M and I told Walltz back
in the still and I act like I was shopping.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Are you the one to point it out first? Or
your friends the ones to point it out?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
If they're my real friend, they'll probably point out first
because they know my music. But if no, it's usually me.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Now, speaking of music, do you remember the first dance
song that made you fall in love with d m Ooh.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That's a great question, you know what.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I don't really want to be like cliche or anything,
but the sample time mysterious is Pala Joey's Hot music,
and I remember growing up my parents used to play
that song in the car and I loved it. So
I don't want to make this is not playing or
calculator or anything. But honestly, that song was like the
first classic New York house song that I really fell
(07:40):
in love with. That And there's a song called following
Me eli Us. I don't know if I said the
name the right, but I used. I love like that
classic like eighties nineties like that feel good that house music.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So I love like the nineties New York vibes, like
that's my thing.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Man, man, that's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's actually two weeks in the row that nineties music
is coming up. I was talking to Blondish last week
and she was talking about songs like mister Vane.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I don't know if you remember that song.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Oh that was just in my record box. I got
a ream because I'm like, you know what, would anybody
even know this? Like that comes to my shows, like
we do they even know what this is? I remember even
being in school, like hearing like everybody dance now see
sees in Factor.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Like all those like songs in that era.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I didn't even really know that was like dance music
because sometimes it was like those jock jams or like
the way they were like position.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It was just like pop music, but like not pop music.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Right, that's just dance music. Yeah, like LaBouche too.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, the grooves in the heart oh.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
See light, Oh my god. Anyways, we need to get
We're going to be spending all hour on this.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I love that stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It was really a great era of music.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Now, finally, in Finky's first, you know, you post a
lot of videos playing rooftops with your controller.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Do you remember the first time ever playing on a rooftop?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah? I did it.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
It was actually I did it kind of like the
week before I moved out of New York and I
was like, you know, let me just go on the rooftop.
I never seen anyone do it, but I was like,
I just want to just make music outside. So I
made a video in the rooftop and it was actually raining.
I had like my mom film it or something like.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It was crazy crazy, it's crazy crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I did it and it kind of took off, and
then I was like, you know what, Let'm just keep
doing it. I moved LA and I just kept doing
it and it became our thing.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It's definitely cool vibes. Now, do you have monitors? In
or are there speakers or.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh so if I'm using the machine, I plug it
to the laptop, use the laptop speakers. If I'm using
the NPC, the NPC has has battery charge and has
speakers in NPC.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Gotcha.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well, let's talk about your incredible smash, Hot and Mysterious
with Kyle Low.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
How was this song born?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
First of all, Kylo was magnificent. She's amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You hear her voice like, it's so infectious. So we
were in a studio, we had a session a couple
months before that. We tried to cook something up. We
did something, but I didn't feel like that was quite it.
And then we got in the studio again a couple
months later and I made the beat on the spot
in the studio.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
She cooked it up.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I'm like, oh, this is this is gonna to be
the one like and then she we're feeling it. But
then I'm like, you know what, I want to do
something different too. I want to add a sample to it.
So then I switch up to beat and then the
beat is what it is right now, and then it
just felt so good.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Came together.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, I love it, man, I'm so happy about that
song and She's amazing, you know, from London to Harlem.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
We did it, you know, we just made it happen. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I told you in Miami that I agree with you.
She is incredible. And I told you in Miami that
that song needs to be used for a sink.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I mean it's perfect for sinks.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I mean hot misteris acronham H and M, H and M.
He's hitting me up.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Let's make it the theme song when you at H
and M you want to be Hot Mysterious.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It just makes sense, and you shouted them out earlier.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Now, are we ever gonna see the light of day
of the first song that you worked with Colo?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We could, like, I might play it at some shows.
It's a vibe, for sure, It's definitely vibe.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
So you never know.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Well, back to Hot Mysterious. How long ago did you
guys start working on it?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I think we cut the vocals in winter twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Wow. Yeah, that is amazing. Is it tough to sit
on a song for that long?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's tough, It's really yeah, I bet. Now.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Something I love to find out about songs is how
many different v's there are from when you start working
on I love it that's pretty much everybody's reaction. Do
you remember what the final V was of Hot and Mysterious.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Could have been like the seven V eight, Oh, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Not too bad. It's not too bad now with your sound.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Like sometimes there's definitely more exports. So I'm just saying
like V in terms of like, all right, this is
the V that we can like send.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
To the label. There's definitely more vs though.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Now with Austin Mills songs, is there a lot of
tweaking that goes on from when you start working on it?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, I'm a perfectionist. But my song need I say more?
That I did with Jazzy before Hot Mysteries, that was
like we did it and it was probably like t
one point five v's.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It was that many v's.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
But there's other songs that there's a lot of ease
And I'm perfectionist, so I like, you know, finding the
perfect balance of when it's ready to go.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It's annoying, isn't it the same way?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, Like there's probably gonna be twelve versions of this
bounced down video by the time I'm done with.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
It, so annoying.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Well, congratulations on Hot and Mysterious with ky Loo going
number one.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Thank you, like, thank you for playing it, thanks for
like running it up, like, thanks for all the support.
It means a lot. I see the tweets too, I see.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Everything absolutely well. What's next for Austin Mills.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I'll be in a viza with Kaigo.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Hell yeah, oh my god, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I don't know, I probably shouldn't asked this, but is
this going to be your first show and I be
tha or have you played there before? So wow, So
there's a lot of first for you in twenty twenty five. Definitely,
this is the year of Austin Mills. Congratulations, Thank you
so much.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yeah, support me is everything. Let's let's let's get this.
Let's keep running number zo be hot, Let's keep me serious.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Austin Mills, thank you so much for your time with
us on America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Thank you so much. I have a great day. Peace.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
America's Dance thirty Counting down the biggest dance songs in
the country.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
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