Wally De Backer (Gotye)

I think one main challenge I've set myself is to hopefully avoid any potential copyright issues with the way that I sample and what I do.

Because that's a bit of a minefield that I may not have navigated yet.

Cut that bit out.

Hello, how are you, Zane?

Yeah, they're moments.

I mean, I tried to choose some music, A, that I have really liked over the last year or year and a half and also tried to choose Aussie artists.

I think I managed to stick with all Aussie artists in the five.

You did?

Yeah, but they did go kind of hand in hand with a few moments I thought were significant in the last 12 months.

I guess I first saw Josh play at the Wesleyan in Northcote, just north of Melbourne, when he was playing to about, I think, 30 people.

And it was just really nice, I guess, to meet him and be really impressed by his music and hear Feeding the Wolves.

And I kind of put it on fairly obsessively for a week.

And this was the track that really caught me first and made me go, wow, this guy Josh is just an amazing songwriter.

and that was before in terms of how it maybe connects with my last year it was before I put my album out before things got a little crazy I guess like I've been insanely busy and so it does make me think of a time when I could actually get out and see some gigs because I'm struggling to do that at the moment and also just yeah see an amazing singer-songwriter clearly just at the cusp of you know connecting with a wider audience.

Well, I do like a lot of heavy music.

As a teenager, definitely loved a lot of grunge.

Grew up listening to that, playing that with friends and got into metal, got into prog metal and older stuff as well as, you know, not so much, I guess, into really extreme, you know, grind and hardcore and that type of stuff, but definitely into some really heavy music.

And I still...

I still, well, I guess I realised when I discovered Carnival stuff only about halfway through last year, it felt like I was just reconnecting with this awesome power that good heavy music can have because I hadn't been listening to any for years.

And so it was like, wow, there is this amazing band in Australia doing immense heavy music that I find, you know, really powerful.