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.

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Julio Caesar
“I was like a bit of a black sheep in Bristol in that I was pushing and making house music, and most other people were dubstep and stuff.”
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Gaga For New French House
"[Lady Gaga]'s very professional and hardworking and just a great singer."
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Extending From The Expected
“There’s been so many through my life that have frustrated me – I mean, why a band like [New York post-hardcore rockers] Quicksand were never bigger just drives me mad at night."
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Come In Spinner
“It was a tricky one for me because I had to try to write a female perspective into that – and you know that you’re treading on shaky ground as a bloke if you get something like that wrong."
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Not Naming Names
“My set is completely different from the last time I played over there. I’m paying more attention to how to play now. I’m more thinking of it as like a showcase.”
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Gold Dust
"It’s easy when you’re about 21 or 22, maybe a bit older – you can really flip out. You still don’t really know who you are. I used to go on terrible benders – but I was younger and had friends.”
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Brave New World
“I am gonna play a mixture of housey stuff and a bit more garagey – not too garagey, but just a couple of classics."
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Hip Hop Unity
"If Detox does come out and Dr Dre is reading this interview somehow, put Crooked I on that damn project, man. Put Slaughterhouse on that motherfuckin' project - please!"
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My Neighbour Toro
“I just wanted to do electronic R&B this album so, yeah, I was listening to a lot of electronic music, hip hop music...”
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Yin And Yang
"We probably won't release an album, but we have a bunch of new tracks and collaboration EPs in the works for 2013."
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Crazy Work Ethic
“It’s gonna be very interesting. It’s a very cerebral project. I’m excited to see what people say, because it’s something new and I’ve been working really hard on it."
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Showing Her Wares
“Although my mouth has got me into trouble a few times recently, I think ‘cause I’ve been a bit more relaxed, I understand what I can and can’t say and understand when you’ll be misquoted.”
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