Photo courtesy of Matthew Isaac

Trash Yourself have literally been ripping at the seams with new music and building up a nice little buzz. Quite fitting for us I’d say!! The TRASHIER it gets the better! We first caught glance of the new duo through our dear friend The Toxic Avenger (heads up for his month long US tour kicking off Sept 28!!) who collaborated on some tracks with John and Heidi, as well as other notable producers. With their debut album in the works, and Heidi featured in this months Nylon mag, John proclaims, “Lotta trashin going on!!”

Here is a bit of music and some Q&A with John Bourke, done by Trashbags in Australia. Global TRASH UNITE!!!

Trash Yourself & The Toxic Avenger - Song 2

Trash Yourself - Touch

John Bourke - What is Love

John Bourke - What is Love - The Toxic Avenger Remix

Kill Hannah - Crazy Angel (John Bourke Remix)

Trashbags: Who have you worked with (artists)?

John: We are currently working on a new song with The Toxic Avenger and a new one with Treasure Fingers. I am also doing some production for Planet of the Drums’ MC Messinian’s new album and I just finished a remix for Chicago’s own, Kill Hannah.

Trashbags: How long has trash yourself been around?

John: As a group, we are very young. I have been producing and DJing for years. We both go to College together in Oklahoma. We met there about 2 years ago. We would meet and talk in the hall and Heidi threw around the idea of wanting to do vocals sometime. Around that time Toxic had sent me a little clip of Song 2 that he started. Heidi came over and we started recording some vocals just to see what happened. At that point we knew it was going to work. It’s been a blast to write ever since. Shes not afraid to be creative. We generally both always have the same vision in mind. Everything is really fresh right now for us. We are really excited to write more. It feels good.

Trashbags: How many members in Trash yourself?

John Bourke: 2. John Bourke and Heidi Cannon. But we are planning on doing a lot of collaborations with other producers. We would love to feature as vocalists on some songs by other producers. There’s a lot of great producers out there that don’t record vocals. I think thats one thing we bring to the table. And something we really enjoy doing.

Trashbags: Any tour dates coming up?

John: Right now we are booking a few dates scattered around the US for DJing gigs.. We are planning on getting a live show set up for next spring or summer. I also have a weekly I run in OKC called Robotic.

Works in Progress Include:
“Down to the Disco” w/ Treasure Fingers
“Ready to Explode” w/ The Toxic Avenger

Song 2 is:
Producers John Bourke and The Toxic Avenger
Trash Talker Heidi Cannon