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Hey guys, Tatiana Diana here, sitting backstage at the Nokia Theater with Temper Trap from Down Under.

Hey, you doing?

That was actually not that bad.

Yeah.

Thank you.

I practiced.

I did.

Baby For people who haven't heard your sound, how would you describe your type of music?

We've all got fairly different styles, so I think they all come together and kind of mold into our sound. Um, but you know, we've got some slow songs, we've got some uh one of our songs is has a bit of a folky element to it. Um, and then some of our songs have kind of a more of a electronic element, so we kind of try to cross the span of all genre.

How'd you guys find each other?

Doug and I met in Melbourne and kind of got things going and Johnny's an old friend of Doug's and kind of came into the picture really quickly and um and I'd been mates at school as well and um after we lost a few guitarists, he filled the space and things have been going since then.

You have a new album coming out, a remix album. You want to tell us a little bit about that?

Yeah, well the remix album, you know, as we did the different singles, um from the album, we got a lot of remixes done and we're really happy with the way some of those turned out and the kind of idea came to see what people would do with some of the more kind of slow and interesting songs and see if we could put the whole thing together and um, you know, we've got a really diverse range of artists, everyone from Roller and Sister Bliss from Faithless, Peter Bjorn and John, um some really great dubstep from London, Brat and Labs and Rosco. So there's kind of in the same way that conditions our version has a kind of different elements, the remix album really draws from a wide range of elements as well.

It sounds like you have a lot of great collaborations on that album. Any collaborations with somebody in the future that you haven't done yet that you would just love to work with?

Ah, you know, I think we've all got different people that we'd like to work with. I think Doug is pretty keen to kind of team together with Danger Mouse if if that ever comes about. But um, yeah, you know, we're just going to focus on the next record and see what happens.

And who influenced you guys growing up musically? Who inspired you?

I mean it's it is again different but the bands that kind of came that we all like, which isn't many, are kind of like your Arcade Fires, you too, Radiohead, uh, TV on the Radio and um, people like David Bowie and Prince and stuff like that.

Where is the place that you just love to perform?

Uh, I mean, for me personally, I I do like going back to our hometown in Melbourne and playing there. I guess, you know, it's kind of where we started out and the last time we played there, it was um, you know, kind of really electric and then just everyone seemed really excited to have us home and and I think we're all, you know, pretty excited to be there. So, um, you know, we don't get to go there that often anymore, so it's really nice going home and playing in front of, you know, your friends and your family as well as your home crowd.

Hey Young Hollywood, thanks for hanging out with us.

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I'm Toby and we're from the Temper Trap.