Our friends and dance experts over at Mixermatosis give us the low-down on hot property Tommy Trash
Ladies and gents, Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune on BBC Radio 1 this week sees one of EDM’s heavy weights combine with its fastest rising star. We all know Sebastian Ingrosso’s track record having re-written dance history with Messrs Axwell and Angello as Swedish House Mafia. Mr Trash on the other hand might be less familiar to you: events in 2013 will change this.
Tommy Trash, ne’ Thomas Olsen, first hit the Australian dance scene back in 2006, moving to Sydney to ply his trade as a dance music producer having been raised on rather large helping classical greats. He struck gold pretty quickly, breaking through into Aussie clubland and mainstream pop charts alike with hits like ‘All My Friends‘, probably his biggest Australian single to date.
However, his great ambitions to make it big on the world stage would soon take him abroad, and a move to London and then LA would see him take some time out from touring and clock up many hours in the studio. A whole armoury of big room bangers were assembled and his arrival on to the world stage was announced in the Summer 2011 with the release of The End.
Since then he hasn’t looked back, indeed he hasn’t had time such has been his work rate! One of the most prolific dance music DJ/producers in the last couple of years alongside Nicky Romero, Alesso and Avicii, the Trashmeister has earned his reputation with a franetic, razor sharp synth sound, brash, intense percussion and drops that make you feel like you’re crashing to earth from a drop off of the Empire State Building. Olsen has enjoyed hit after hit in EDM space with tracks like Cascade, Monkey Monkey Say Monkey Do, Tuna Melt (with A-Trak, one half of Duck Sauce) and more recently with fellow Aussies the Aston Shuffle with Sunrise (Won’t Get Lost).
And thus to the track that could help him break through into the US and European mainstream. “Reload” was one of the EDM anthems of last summer, coming out at the start of the summer on Ingrosso’s Refune imprint (hits on the label have also included Ingrosso’s collaboration with fellow swede Alesso with “Calling – Lose My Mind” – Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic fame sang the top line don’t chaknow?!). The track has been a staple of any self-respecting big room DJ’s set of late and it was only a matter of time before a vocal edit surfaced. It took a while to get it finished – Pete Tong even remarking how overdue it was in his show last Friday – but it’s here, ready for the start of your summer. You might recognise the vocalist – John Martin’s had a fair but to do with the later part of SHM’s musical offerings with features on Save The World and the groups swan song Don’t You Worry Child.
Sit back, turn the speakers up to 11 and press play…
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