Fresh-faced. Twenty five years old. Australia’s #1 house DJ. Yes, Andy Murphy is all these things, and more.
As a OneLove resident for nearly three years now, Murphy has risen to the top of Australian DJs, leading the way with a sound that is crisp and fun. He’s also spearheading numerous OneLove CDs, appearing on the newly released Mobile Disco alongside John Dahlback and The Bang Gang DJs.
After downing some Panadol (he’d played both Sydney and Perth Steresonic on the weekend) Murphy took some time out to chat to OUTinPerth about the new CD and the upcoming sounds for summer.
What goes into a good mix CD? You’ve got to get a balance; you want a lot of favourites on there, but I also try and get a couple of my favourites on there. I want to put a few of the favourite tracks from OneLove over the last few months – of the club, and the people who go there – and then I put a few of my favourite up and coming tracks that I think will be big in the coming months.
And what are the highlights, for listeners? Well I’d love them to listen to my first solo single, which is on there, so I hope they’ll listen to that, but I also love the new Calvin Harris track and for an oldie that’s been redone, the Fredde Le Grand remix of Praise You is really good, as well.
What can you tell us about your new single? I guess the sound is very similar to an Afrojack sound. It’s my first solo single and it’s just a good little party track which is coming out in the next month. But it’s previewed on the CD.
Any forthcoming predictions as to what the sound of this summer is going to be all about? Well personally, I’m hoping all this noise is over; all this noisy music. I’m hoping that it’s big club house and disco. A lot of disco house is coming in, big house tracks with elements of disco and I’m hoping it’s bringing the fun back into a dance floor, rather than the moshing, headbanging noise that was occurring over the past year.
Do you have any predictions for the sound in the coming decade? I hope mixings going to get a bit smarter; I hope a bit more melody and a bit more music is going to come back into the tune, into the future, if you know what I mean, rather than the standard headbanging stuff that was happening. I hope a bit more melody, a bit more progression, will be in the music.
Do you have a best festival story or horror story you can share with us? Last year’s Stereosonic, in Perth. It was the last Stereosonic of the whole tour and I overdid it a little bit; a bit of an excess happening there, and I managed to lose my digital camera, my laptop, my leather jacket… everything except my records, thank god. I actually got them back a month later so they turned up. So it was a bit of a fight there; I frantically woke up the next day and I’m like “Oh my god, I don’t even have my bag, I don’t even have my laptop, where is everything?†So that’s a bit of a festival horror story. Really good times.
How does that happen exactly? I think I was having a little bit too much fun.
OneLove Mobile Disco is available now through Sony Music.
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
