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"I had to leave Australia because nobody would take what I wanted to do seriously."

"I wrote it during a breakup, but I didn’t want to go all Taylor Swift and write a bunch of breakup songs, I really wanted to turn it around and make it a little bit more positive and look on the bright side of life, and I guess he did me a favour."

The UK DJ gave up hard house when he realised "All these records sound the same!"

"I had this kind of confusion that if I put my work out and then people actually came back and said it was shit, then that would confirm what I’ve always thought about it anyway."

"In terms of the album itself, we don’t wanna give too much away, I guess – and, at the end of the day, it’s impossible to really do it justice in words, anyway."

The Triple J Hottest 100 Vol 20 is now out on DVD, jam packed with 40 videos from the top 100 songs of 2012! Check out the line up here.

We ask record stores along the east coast what's in store for Record Store Day this Saturday.

We thought we'd have a chat to one of the head dudes behind Pilerats.com, Mr ALEX PAIOFF to chat about where the project spawned from.

“We go on tour maybe twice a year and it’s going okay, but starting a band these days is really hard."

“The anniversary celebrations were fantastic. We had a great time. It also gave me motivation to power through the next twenty years.”

“It was a slow start for the band, yeah. When we got together in 1998, it was a different set-up for the band and we didn’t really start making our first album until 1999/2000."

"You can kind of tie in the origins of the band back to Newtown Festival and a bunch of milk crates."