As Tone Deaf reported earlier this month, Melbourne garage crew and mash-up experts Bareback Titty Squad have been hard at work over the past few months creating a squeal to… well, that time they performed the entire 2012 Triple J Hottest 100 in their underwear.
This time around, the band went all-out. Taking on the most recent Hottest 100, the trio did more than just perform a mash-up of all 100 songs. This is a fully produced short film, with peaks, valleys, a mind-blowing ending, and even a trip through the Tone Deaf offices.
Following their recent 16-date tour across the country, Bareback Titty Squad went back in the studio to begin secretly writing, recording, mixing, and mastering their take on the latest Hottest 100, starting with Tkay Maidza’s ‘Switch Lanes’ through to Chet Faker’s ‘Talk Is Cheap’.
After assembling on Australia Day, the trio went about painstakingly sampling, transposing, arranging, and learning every song from home before recording the whole composition over two jam-packed weeks with producer Oscar Dawson (HOLY HOLY) at The Aviary Studios in Melbourne.
“The most rigorous work schedule we have ever put ourselves through, with a couple of us losing our ‘real’ jobs in order to squeeze in the massive work load,” BBTS bassist and vocalist Callum Padgham said of the process behind their latest megamix.
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“Thanks to all of the touring we’ve done lately, we’re a better band than we’ve ever been and we’re confident that’s plastered all over the new mix… To put it simply, this Hottest 100 mix drops our old Hottest 100 mix off at the day care centre, before going down to the pub with the boys and drinking them all under the table.”
While we knew the boys were planning something seriously big for their sequel, traversing “land, sea and air” and using our very own Tone Deaf offices in place of Triple J HQ, we had no idea that the trio would come back with something so epic.
