Welcome to Original Material. I’m Gemma Syme, and each episode I ask my favorite musicians to share three songs that blew their minds in high school, three words that described their teenage selves, and one track every young person needs to hear today.

Introducing Today’s Guest

Today’s guest is someone who spent his childhood holidays rewiring his brain by looping Blink-182 and Oasis on a Philips Discman, learnt his first bass lines on a one-stringed 1960s guitar, and his name is Josh Holmes

You’ll know him best as Junus Orca, his solo electronic music project where he crafts deeply atmospheric, textured, and visceral soundscapes. Today, we are tracing his sonic roots back to Maidstone, UK. We talk about the 10-year-old "grunge" kid who first introduced him to heavy rock, obsessing over music videos on Kerrang! TV and MTV2, and how a classic 90s club anthem directly inspired one of his own songs today.

Chapters:

0:00:00 Welcome to Original Material

00:01:09 What were three words that you would use to describe yourself as a teenager

00:05:02 How did you discover new music in high school?

00:08:24 Song #1: +44 – “Chapter 13”

00:14:22 Song #2: Blink-182 – “Down”

00:19:50 Song #3: Robert Miles – “Children”

00:27:19 One song all teens today should hear: Malibu – “Camargue”

Stream or buy the tracks featured in the podcast here: https://www.tunemymusic.com/share/3X3Yu55bYD

https://junusorca.bandcamp.com/

https://instantfantasy.bandcamp.com/

https://www.sunreturn.co.nz/

This podcast is for educational purposes. Any opinions and all that jazz is the hosts only, and not their employers and such.

Created, recorded by Gemma Syme

Edited by Daif King