Back To Back with Willy Joy

Oolacile goes Back To Back! Willy talks with him about his new album "Be Curious", running Halcyon Records, balancing sound design & emotion, advice for submitting to labels, the state of dubstep, Vegas vegans, the Phonon phenomenon, Vengeance samples, gaming, fanboying & lots more.   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtobackpod Willy Joy: http://linktr.ee/willyjoy Oolacile: https://go.halcyo...

Jauz returns to Back To Back! Willy talks with him about his new pair of albums, "Wrath of the Wicked" and "Rise of the Wise", his upcoming Wise vs. Wicked tour concept, life lessons from Tiesto & Aoki, changing priorities, IRL streamers, i/o memories, bucket list shows, fixing what ain't broke, substanitive dance music, fear of reincarnation & lots, lots more.   Join our Discord: http://discord.i...

San Holo goes Back To Back again! Willy talks with him about his new album "Existential Dance Music" in what might be the most existential conversation ever had on this podcast. Also discussed: free will, the nature of consciousness, panic attacks, moving to America, storytelling, ego death, social constructs, redesigning a touring show & much more!   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtoback...

Jayceeoh goes Back To Back again! Willy talks with him about his new album "twilight 9", digging deeper as an artist, marrying the worlds of music & golf, owning a pizza shop, hustling & competitiveness, artist families & family businesses, juggling side project, old ass DJs, considering fatherhood, chasing happiness & much more!   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtobackpod Willy Joy: http:...

Yolanda Be Cool go Back To Back! Willy talks with them about their new single "Hip Trumpets" on their new label SWTRZ, "We No Speak Americano" and the backstory of a global hit, memories of Australian legend AJAX and his legacy on the music scene, the pre-Shazam era, child A&Rs, vedic meditation & the Baseline Happiness Project, Ibiza, Sweat It Out, Rufus Du Sol origin stories & much more!   Join...

Autograf goes Back To Back! Willy talks with them about their new album "Affirmations", memories of their early Chicago days, designing and building their own stage sets, throwing parties, boiler room before Boiler Room, failure factories, AI, stock trading, burnout, imposter syndrome, Tiesto & lots more!   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtobackpod Willy Joy: http://linktr.ee/willyjoy Auto...

Mary Droppinz goes Back To Back! Willy talks with her about her upcoming EP for Altered States, working with artists from Zeds Dead to LP Giobbi, teaching DJ classes, bringing breaks back, embracing silliness, making people happy, music as spirituality, Nebraska pride & much more!   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtobackpod Willy Joy: http://linktr.ee/willyjoy Mary Droppinz: https://www.ma...

Odd Mob goes Back To Back! Willy talks with him about his Club Rompas EP, breaking through the noise, emotion vs. engineering, AI, multi-genre sets, musician support networks, Soulja Boy, being remixed by Space Laces, Pokemon cards, Gigachad & lots more!   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtobackpod Willy Joy: http://linktr.ee/willyjoy Odd Mob: https://www.oddmobmusic.com   PROTECT REPRODUCT...

Scuba goes Back To Back! Willy talks with him about his "Not A Diving Podcast" and the DJ podcast ecosystem, 20 years of Hotflush Records, witnessing the infancy of dubstep, the state of music journalism, amateur aesthetics, why small venues matter, throwing parties at Berghain, UK hardcore, 90s raving, genre police & much more!   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtobackpod Willy Joy: http:/...

DJ Fresh goes Back To Back! Willy talks with him about launching the Voice Swap platform, AI ethics in the music industry, founding DogsOnAcid, creating the first #1 D&B song in history, writing "Tarantula" with Pendulum, asking Flux Pavilion to remix Gold Dust, staying community-focused, going to coding bootcamp, cancer scares, returning from a music hiatus & much, much more!   Voice Swap: https:...

SIPPY goes Back To Back! Willy talks with her about the ballet to dubstep pipeline, figuring out what matters, grindset pitfalls, winning DJ competitions, inspiration from Flume, continuing education for producers, having a residency at Chinese Laundry, running production schools, crying at Red Rocks, touch football, tour bus life & more!   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtobackpod Willy J...

Alan Braxe goes Back To Back! Willy talks with him about The Upper Cuts, Braxe + Falcon, writing "Music Sounds Better With You" with Stardust and working with Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk, remixing Britney Spears & Justice, French cartoons & American hip-hop, playing the 20th anniversary of Ed Banger at Printworks, AI implications for musicians, keeping your head down as a path to success & much...

Spag Heddy goes Back To Back! Willy talks with him about his new album "The Noodle Effect", DJ dads, rollerblading, church bands, when you used to bring your laptop to the club, how new artists can define their sound, Never Say Die memories, bootleg nostalgia, international touring, platform wars & more!   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtobackpod Willy Joy: http://linktr.ee/willyjoy Spag...

Jai Wolf goes Back To Back! Willy talks with him about his "Blue Babu Era", new music & upcoming tour, scarcity vs. abundance in music, the experience of having a hit song early in his career, playing Red Rocks & Coachella, getting sober, working hard to be effortless, Moving Castle, keeping burnout at bay, South Asian heritage, keeping one foot in the past and one foot in the present, and much mo...

Boombox Cartel returns to Back To Back! Willy talks with Americo about his new Box Car project (ALGORHYTHM album out now!), studying music trends to predict the future, silence & space, starting a label, driving racecars, throwing everything at the wall, small town touring, does balancing your life better lead to balancing your mix better & much more!   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtoba...

AC Slater returns to Back To Back! Willy talks with him about his new album "Together", building the Night Bass community from the ground up, the early rave days, secrets to a long career, paying dues, keeping an outsider mentality, working with your friends & much more!   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtobackpod Willy Joy: http://linktr.ee/willyjoy AC Slater: https://djacslater.com     P...

DROELOE returns to Back To Back! Willy talks with him about his upcoming album "The Art of Change" & new single "Landscape", going on tour with San Holo, adjusting to becoming a solo act, how a journey of self-discovery can turn into a body of work, journaling, breaking production rules, why a song is like a boat, shifting attitudes towards drugs, science vs. religion, Magic: The Gathering, psycho...

Back To Back Classics is highlighting some of the best episodes of the podcast, and this week, Inspired by a Skrillex tribute post, we bring you the legend himself: Busy P of Ed Banger Records! Daft Punk! Justice! The birth of a new era of dance music! Enjoy!   Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtobackpod Willy Joy: http://linktr.ee/willyjoy Busy P: https://linktr.ee/EdBangerrecords https://w...

Back To Back Classics returns to bring you one of our favorite episodes with friend of the show Party Favor, recorded in July 2022! This is one of the best conversations we had on the podcast last year. Relive! Enjoy! Classic!    Willy Joy: http://linktr.ee/willyjoy Party Favor: https://www.instagram.com/partyfavor/ Join our Discord: http://discord.io/backtobackpod   PROTECT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: h...

Jessica Audiffred goes Back To Back! Willy talks with her about marrying melodic & heavy music, working with Monstercat & Adventure Club, bringing bass music to Mexico City, growing her Mad House events into arena-sized festivals, playing EDC, did nu-metal predict the future, psychoanalyzing DJs, dubstep's evolution, support from Flux Pavilion and Shaq, A Records, artist visas, women in bass music...

KC Lights goes Back To Back! Willy talks with him about why Scottish producers are so good, growing up on an island, keeping a 'no rules' attitude, 10 years of KC Lights, inspiration from Boys Noize & Justice, early looks from MK, when a hit record becomes dangerous, how to make creative decisions, summer singles & more!   Back To Back is sponsored by The Cult Creatives: info@thecultcreatives.com...

Harriet Jaxxon goes Back To Back! Willy talks with her about her new track "Story Of Women", female pioneers in electronic music, playing the closing weekend of Printworks, being scouted by Ministry of Sound, inspiration from Andy C, the moombahton era, underage raving, artistic metamorphosis & much more!   Back To Back is sponsored by The Cult Creatives: info@thecultcreatives.com https://www.inst...

AMÉMÉ goes Back To Back! Willy talks to him about growing up in Benin, living in Berlin and NYC, his vision for the Afro-House sound, leaving pre-med and finance behind for music, burnout vs. healthy growth, early rap success, embracing competition, EDM evolution, House Of Yes, Onetribe, "beautiful chaos", remixing La Mezcla & much more!   Back To Back is sponsored by The Cult Creatives: info@thec...

RaeCola goes Back To Back! Willy talks with them about Chicago booty house & juke, combining classic sounds with modern styles, working with Dirtybird, tour life, going to Oktoberfest, healthy social media habits, overcoming shyness, mental health for first responders, new music & much more!   Back To Back is sponsored by The Cult Creatives: info@thecultcreatives.com https://www.instagram.com/thec...

Armanni Reign goes Back To Back! Willy talks with him about his "Last Rhetoric" project with Bro Safari, the art of being a D&B MC, music for outcasts, battle rap supremacy, UK vs US jungle scenes, imposter syndrome, the golden era of the trap scene, MC Skibadee memories & much more!   Back To Back is sponsored by The Cult Creatives: info@thecultcreatives.com https://www.instagram.com/thecultcreat...