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 Long Time Comin'
“I think just being around a lot of electronic music, you end up picking up what a lot of the current trends are – the new waves or whatever."
News / Music
"My album is gonna definitely change the world"
Hipster rapper. Social media giant
Features / Music
Full Circle
"I definitely think I’m a revolutionary with the human rights, the love, the progression of the human race as a whole."
Features / Music
Bass In The Place
"Over the last year, I’ve been getting back into electro a lot. Before that, I was doing a bunch of tech-house and traditional house, I guess."
Features / Music
A Tricky Situation
"Sometimes I look at Rihanna or Justin Bieber, right, and I think, I wonder if they're gonna live that long - because it just seems like they're so manufactured and controlled that it's a disaster maybe waiting to happen."
Features / Music
Taking The Drop
"I don’t think Bert wants to stand still. I think he likes being contemporary – and he’s certainly incredibly well preserved."
Features / Music
Kim Wilde
I Survived The '80s
"It was in a more R&B sort of soul groove direction – and people really weren't ready to hear Kim Wilde sing in that way. The album really didn't do so well at all."
Features / Music
Reading The Label
"I do what I do – and I let myself be influenced by whatever music’s exciting me at the time."
News / Music
EXCLUSIVE: How Has Hip Hop Influenced Big Scary's Latest LP?
Dubstep? Hip hop? Vege kebabs? Just what is going on with Big Scary's Not Art?
Features / Music
Bass Tendencies
"When I was a teenager, I was into house and progressive house and nu-skool breaks, which obviously doesn’t really exist any more."
Features / Music
Back To The Future
"I'd gone from being this kind of like strange, dark creature from Basildon that everyone avoided like the plague, 'cause they thought I was a bit dodgy, to suddenly becoming very, very famous."
Features / Music
Soul Searching
“My music has always been experimental and kind of left-of-centre. I’ve always been genre-bending and flirting with electronic music – for the last nine years."
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