Full Steam Ahead

Philly Blunt and Micah Black have been rather busy of late. Recently scoring a nomination for WAM Song Of The Year with their tune, Wandering Strangers ft MC Coppa and Sam Perry and playing Listen Out amongst their usual weekly gigs, they've just returned from a couple of gigs over east. “We played Chinese Laundry on Saturday and then Ivy on Sunday, which was pretty crazy; there was about 1800 people there,” Blunt begins.

The boys have got some great gigs lined up including the Yolo Halloween Party in Karratha as well as sets alongside Porter Robinson on his upcoming tour at Villa and Stereosonic, but for now, the focus is on Broken, Beaten, Scratched, a night dedicated to RTR FM's flagship dance music program, Full Frequency. “I love RTR gigs, they're just different,” Black admits. “They're not like normal club gigs out because the RTR crowd is not your mainstream clubbing crowd. They're a little bit more alternative. Some people don't go out to gigs other than RTR gigs so you see faces that you're not going to see anywhere else and I really, really like that.”

Black and Blunt have hosted Full Frequency on Mondays for almost two years together, with Black having previously hosted alongside DJ and producer stalwart Ben Mac. “Full Frequency is going great. I just love it. I love presenting it… Phil and I work a lot together. I just enjoy having an outlet like Full Frequency as a DJ – my first and foremost joy that I get from it is sharing music and we just love finding new music and then being able to show it to people through a DJ set or a radio show.” Indeed, both push new sounds on their Monday show. “We try and push a lot more of what's currently out there in club land, which is a pretty versatile range of stuff. I'm liking a bit of the twerk stuff – 100 bpm trap, not the Miley Cyrus videos. Loads of trap stuff and a bit of what they're calling the 'Australian sound', which is pretty hip right now everywhere. We like to know quite a lot about music and we like to share that with each other and talk about it on air so we tend to yabber on a little bit.”

They've got an EP coming out with Deekline in November, a collab with Meat Katie out in the next couple of months and a remix for Central Station Records in the pipeline. As for Broken, Beaten, Scratched, Black says punters can expect a set that is “going to be the kind of music that you're going to hear on the show”.