Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Cyclone Wehner, Contributor

Cyclone Wehner

Cyclone Wehner is a Melbourne journalist writing about R&B, hip hop, dance music, synth-pop, and film/TV. She's interviewed everyone from Beyoncé to Daft Punk to Jane Campion. Cyclone has also DJed at feted clubs like Revolver. She is obsessed with vampires and, currently, curating concept playlists.

Features / Music
A Non-Belieber
"I listened to all kinds of shitty music when I was a teenager, so every generation deserves something like that!"
Features / Music
Twin Jacques
"I still love classical music and still try to listen to things other than just dance music."
Features / Music
Knight Rider
"I think [dance] music has become so polarised of late. You’ve either got people who are really EDM or really super underground."
Features / Arts
Naked Clowns
"We thought we were from the most conservative, puritanical, crazy place on the planet and, as it turned out, there’s crazy people everywhere!"
Features / Music
Renaissance Man
"I never go in the studio with someone like Justin Bieber because there’s a bag of money there."
Features / Music
The Bear Necessities
"We’d need to sell a few more records first – maybe we should get in the rap game and then we can do that."
Features / Music
Like Minds
"We are a very small cog in a giant, complicated automobile."
News / Music
Gesaffelstein
French DJ Gesaffelstein 'Really Impressed' By Kanye West's Sharing
The producer on his 'Yeezus' experience
Features / Music
Gesaffelstein
Getting To Know Gesaffelstein
"Maybe I’m gonna produce for Kanye again or maybe I’m gonna do a remix again, but I don’t know anything about the future."
Features / Music
Mad About You
“I find when I don’t play my own music, people almost get mad and shout at me.”
Features / Music
The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Cyclone Wehner
Cyclone Wehner expects there'll be a return of soulful techno in 2014.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Nile Rodgers & Chic, Todd Terry
Rodgers, ever aware of his (and The Chic Organisation’s) cultural legacy, has the band segue into Sugarhill Gang’s seminal Rapper’s Delight, which famously sampled Good Times. Awesomely, Terry raps it.
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