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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Percs Of Touring
"There are too many new labels or producers that put three utterly generic, disposable tracks up on Beatport or iTunes, spam Facebook a few times, get upset when they sell less than 30 downloads."
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New Chapter
Today dubstep is ubiquitous. In the UK Chase & Status are a pop – and, importantly, album – act, as are Nero and, of course, Magnetic Man
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Trippin' With Purpose
"You [Australians] always go hard – wherever I play, and wherever I go, you seem to go along with [it]. And you don’t just go along with [it] for the sake of going along. You’re riding shotgun – you’re in the car with me."
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A Musical Approach
While tech-house champion Joris Voorn might not be pulling in the mega bucks of people like countryman Tiësto, he tells Cyclone his ambitions are as big, if not bigger.
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The Underdog
Though producer Nic Fanciulli prefers the low road, he’s no slouch. He chats with Cyclone about pushing on with what he loves rather than bowing to notoriety or industry expectations.
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Smoking Gun
Little Alex won a scholarship to the Durham Cathedral Choir School in North East England (its former pupils include Rowan “Mr Bean” Atkinson and Tony Blair!).
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That's How It Unfolds
“I’m just weird, I’m just fucked up. I wish it wasn’t that way."
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Protecting The Future
Californian rapper Fashawn is on the up and up, and Cyclone chats to the man about exactly what’s pushing that incline.
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The Godfather Of Schranz
"It's more important how grounded the artists stay and that they don't fall to the temptation to try to appeal to more and more people to make more money and stop doing it strictly from the heart."
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Musical Motherlode
Shehab and Carolyn Tariq chat to Cyclone about how a single collaboration ignited marriage, a baby and Audego.
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GODDESS BLUES
“There’s a lot of women who get onstage here and they’re just pretty and they can’t sing at all.” Melbourne raised, onetime Nouvelle Vague singer Nadéah Miranda informs Cyclone of how the French value charm over cred.
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New Technocrats
Germany’s big new export product is tech-house duos. Peter Buck of Kaiserdisco can't wait to bring the party to Australia.
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