Backstage Soundtrack

Backstage Soundtrack

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.

Episodes

November 15, 2021 56 mins

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

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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

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November 1, 2021 50 mins

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 2...

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October 18, 2021 46 mins

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!

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October 11, 2021 47 mins

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

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September 27, 2021 50 mins

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

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September 20, 2021 50 mins

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 singin...

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September 13, 2021 40 mins

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

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September 6, 2021 47 mins

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/2QagV4acNB2u5tT6T...

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February 17, 2019 72 mins

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...

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November 28, 2018 64 mins

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 perf...

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October 23, 2018 68 mins

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 th...

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September 25, 2018 82 mins

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.

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August 27, 2018 51 mins

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. 

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July 29, 2018 77 mins

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. 

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July 10, 2018 69 mins

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. 

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June 19, 2018 56 mins

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 ...

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June 5, 2018 54 mins

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...

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April 3, 2018 49 mins

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...

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March 27, 2018 71 mins

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

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