Red Bull Music Academy

So I kind of broke through because I wanted to create something that was, I guess, at the initial period, intrinsic to developing a space for artists from the Asia-Pacific.

uh so australians new zealanders um asians you know it's like trying to find a market for a place and start to build something that you know i found it really difficult and found a lot of barriers to entry to actually do it and you know progressing on from that you know um booked the red bull music academy when i was here and um then went to roxanne parlor uh oh no sorry miss libertine was miss libertine was the first proper full-scale like venue that i had like full curation on and that was pretty crazy because when we opened you know on an immediate note you know it gave me a place to do a lot of sort of left field stuff which I was post Red Bull Music Academy really interested in because you know that sort of single genre idea had just been totally dispersed by then already and I'm like you know i love drum and bass i love jungle but i want to hear good music and so to just kind of focus in on the quality of uh music and sound that i saw in my eyes you know and try to curate it in that way um and you know from that point on you know we were you know doing you know obviously flying lotus and daedalus theo parish morris fulton you know, a lot of these acts which are huge now.

And that kind of system of trying to find something that was fresh and new and, you know, kind of really dig it out.

I think I always kind of had a hunger for it, but that stemmed more so from the DJ in me, you know, and which is something that I always kind of wanted to always find, which I think is still the core for me being a DJ.

Can you tell me that story?

Yeah, I mean, that was actually a great story.

I met him at the Red Bull Music Academy.

And then he came out in 2000, that was in 2006, 07, he came out for Laneway.