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摘要

Chet Faker's Built on Glass just keeps on piling up the accolades -- ARIA Album of the Year and topping Triple J's Hottest 100. For Eric J Dubowsky, it's a mix that's cemented the American amongst Australia's elite. Awards might not mean much to some people, but to Eric J, winning ARIA Engineer of the Year was validation for five years hard work that began with cold calling in a foreign country, and included a second act mix-off against Tony Maserati that won him the favour of the cutting edge Future Classic label. Five years ago, Eric was new to the country; an American with an Australian wife, who'd moved over to have their first child. In The States, freelancing in the music business doesn't come with health insurance benefits, and the first round of tests and ultrasounds were already mounting up into the thousands. They needed to get out of there before they were loaded with debt, and Medicare was looking pretty darn good from across the Pacific.