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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On The Trot
Crissy Criss admits he's been waiting years for drum'n'bass to be popular.
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Back And Bold
"I learnt to also fight for the right things and to trust my instincts."
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Well Spent Adulthood
"I don't have favourites all the time – and I also don't listen all the time to music and usually I'm not up-to-date. I'm not a DJ and [so] I don't buy music all the time."
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Family Matters
Kathy Sledge of Sister Sledge recalls a mutual admiration society meeting with Mary J Blige for Cyclone: “She said, ‘I love your raspy voice!’ And I was like, ‘I love your voice.’”
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Showtek And Tell
Hard dance is a genre typically living on the fringe of the EDM community around these parts, but Dutch duo Showtek tell Cyclone they not only have the skills to transcend their genre, collaborations with the likes of Tiësto show they already are.
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Doing His Own Thing
“The Randy Newman [comparison]'s quite weird, ‘cause I don’t have one Randy Newman album. I just know his Toy Story songs."
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Smooth Criminal
After Teenage Crime swept across our nation, Adrian Lux was left stunned. The unassuming model turned DJ/producer/reality TV star tells Cyclone, “Every time something good happens, it’s a bonus for me.”
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Last Night A DJ Caused Some Strife
"I think techno has been over-intellectualised," says Bill Brewster, the man who intellectualised dance in his big-selling Last Night A DJ Saved My Life book.
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Full Circle
"I got to freestyle with Prince," claims Atmosphere's Slug, "If you were to ask him about that story, he probably would deny it, but I’m here to tell you it’s true.”
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Calm Before The Storm
US monster of drumstep Figure is a late, but no-less bangin’ edition to Creamfields this weekend. Josh Gard chats to Cyclone about phat beats in America’s fattest city.
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Mixing Things Up
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Wax Works
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