What music do musicians listen to? How did they get started and what songs have shaped their lives? Discover new music and great songs in this podcast by Hot Dub TIme Machine.

Backstage Soundtrack

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

Tom Cardy

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

Sam Hales // Jungle Giants

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

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

Ben Lee

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!

Bag Raiders

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

Adam Hyde // Peking Duk // Keli Holiday

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

BSST - Nathan Cavaleri

From Canberra to Coachella: Peking Dub’s Reuben Styles takes Tom back to where it all began - playing clarinet in his high school concert band! From there, we learn about the first time he met Adam, their production Yoda, how they created their biggest songs, the birth of Peking Duk, and how they made it to the very top of Aussie music. Subscribe on itunes here: itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-d…id651179060?mt=2

Hot Dub Time Machine: RADIO

HDTM: Radio Ep1 Peking Duk (Reuben Styles)

From Pizza Guy to the pinnacle of the music industry, Hugo from Flight Facilities tells Tom how he and Jimmy created one of the biggest Electronic Music acts Australia has ever seen. They then travel through time together in a 'Flight Facilities Decade Mix' vs. 'Hot Dub Time Machine' mash-up. Subcribe on itunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-dub-time-machine-radio/id651179060?mt=2

HDTM: Radio Ep2 Flight Facilites (Hugo)

Hot Dub talks to Triple J's Tom Tilley and learns about his journey from a christian upbringing in rural Australia, to a bass-playing, djing, journalist. Subcribe on itunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-dub-time-machine-radio/id651179060?mt=2

HDTM: Radio Ep3 Tom Tilley

In the past 14 years Angus and Connie from Sneaky Sound System have created massive hits, toured the world, fallen in love and got married! All without major labels or management. They have an awesome story. Check it out..... Subcribe on itunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-dub-time-machine-radio/id651179060?mt=2

HDTM: RADIO Ep4 Sneaky Sound System

It took Hermitude 15 years to be an overnight success. Tom sat down with one of his DJ idols, El Gusto (Angus Stuart) from Hermitude to talk about how they began, his long musical background and how it felt to finally breakthrough in Australia and the world. Subcribe on itunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-dub-time-machine-radio/id651179060?mt=2

HDTM Radio: Ep5 El Gusto/Hermitude

It's PRESETS week on the podcast!!!! I was super stoked to sit down with Julian from the Presets and find out a bit more about my favourite songs. We go through their entire career and catalogue, breaking down how they made songs like: 'Are You the One?' 'Girl and the Sea,' 'My People,' 'This Boys in Love,' 'Ghosts,' 'Do What You Want' and heaps more. Jules is a lovely, talented and funny guy, and this is the best interview with him ever. Subcribe on itunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-dub-time-machine-radio/id651179060?mt=2

HDTM: Radio Ep6 The Presets/Julian Hamilton

How long does it take to make a hit song? If you're Hayden James, it's an hour to come up with the idea, then 4 months of tweaking and perfectionism. That's how long it took to make 'Something About You,' the incredibly fresh, break-through song from the Nicest Guy in Dance Music. Tom and Hayden sat down in December 2017 in Brooklyn, New York to chat about music, touring and life on the road. Subcribe on itunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-dub-time-machine-radio/id651179060?mt=2

HDTM: Radio Ep7 Hayden James

Paces aka. Mikey Perry from the Gold-Coast is one of my 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. subscribe on itunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-dub-time-machine-radio/id651179060?mt=2

HDTM: Radio Ep8 Paces

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... Subscribe on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-dub-time-machine-radio/id651179060?mt=2

HDTM: Radio Ep9 Young Franco

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.

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Hot Dub Time Machine: Radio

HDTMR Ep10 Dena Amy

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. 

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HDTMR Ep11 Illy

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. Subscribe on itunes here: itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-d…id651179060?mt=2

HDTMR Ep12 Touch Sensitive

Client Liaison are intriguing: Their music is nostalgic but totally new and cool, 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 the awesome songs. Tom sits down with Monty and Harvey to find out what music inspires them and how they wrote their music iconic tunes.  Subscribe on itunes here: itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-d…id651179060?mt=2

HDTMR Ep13 Client Liaison

The World's First Time-Travelling Dance Party, tearing apart festivals all over the world. 

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