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Floria is a young Brisbane producer taking on the future R&B sound.. The other week in his Mix-Up Exclusive for Nina Las Vegas, Pilerats Records producer Sable got the rap fan in me a bit riled up when he threw some cheeky raps into his mix: bookended by Danny Brown, and Rich Homie Quan's Some Type of Way, was a futuristic R & B track with a Ty Dolla $ign-style golden vocal. A bit of Twitter digging uncovered that it was a little sneak peek into new material from young Brisbane producer Floria, and to keep our eyes peeled for its imminent release. Above: Floria We didn’t have to wait long – today Floria premiered Bring It Back via Acid Stag, and it’s a dream for anyone whose idea of a good time lies in seductive, vocal crooning over a wavvy contemporary beat. The artwork is on point too. I’m not going to reference The Weekend because every other article is going to do that, instead I’ll say that in a year of hosting Cloudwaves, a radio show focused on modern, alternative R & B, Floria’

Down a dose of DIY, minimal electronic pop via the debut EP from Melbourne's KLO.. We're not surprised Melbourne cousins KLO are doing so well - from an Australian music fans' point of view, their music sits at this ideal nexus between the minimal, vocal-led indie pop coming from artists London Grammar and Jessie Ware that holds influence over us from abroad, and Melbourne's DIY, minimal electronic pop scene that we take pride in from home. BBC Radio 1 tastemaker Zane Lowe got behind their first track, Make Me Wonder (we got behind it too - read HERE) and the blog hype followed suite - leading to KLO's debut live gig a few months back at Boney selling out, and bookings at Beyond the Valley and Strawberry Fields - which is a huge vote of confidence for KLO, given all that happened prior to a release. They've now delivered the goods with EP Cusp. Singer Chloe Kaul comes from a jazz and soul background and evidently knows her way around a smoky vocal - she drip-feeds us pure lush sedation

Dining out, now featuring Fruit Loops..

A lovely bunch of this country's most exciting producers and DJs..

Wolfgang & Sons - High Spring Summer 2015 capsule shot by Daniel Njegich....

GRMM drops his new single just in time for a huge summer tour.. After copping a mention as one of our 13 must-sees at next month's Electronic Music Conference, producer-on-the-rise GRMM has released his new single Circles feat. UK vocalist Yasmin ahead of a big summer tour that includes Falls and Southbound appearances. Out December 5 via Neon Records, Circles is another lush slice of blissed-out trap from the producer who has been kililng it on the j-waves in 2014 thanks to his huge first single Electrify feat. Father Dude. Take a listen below, check the tour dates after that and head to his WEBSITE for tickets. CIRCLES TOUR DATES: FRI 5 DEC - MONDO - PERTH SAT 6 DEC - THE COCONUT CLUB - SUBIACO THU 11 DEC - THE HELM - MOOLOOLABA FRI 12 DEC - BLACK BEAR LODGE - BRISBANE SAT 13 DEC - GOODGOD SMALL CLUB - SYDNEY FRI 19 DEC - SHEBEEN BANDROOM - MELBOURNE SAT 20 DEC - TRINITY BAR - CANBERRA  WED 31 DEC - FALLS FESTIVAL - LORNE SUN 4 JAN - SOUTHBOUND FESTIVAL - BUSSELTON Folllow GRMM: FAC

The WAM Award winner gets a little darker on her next single.. WA-based experimental electronic gal KUČKA has been on a roll in 2014 following the release of her breakout single Unconditional, most recently taking home three WA Music Awards, which has flowed nicely into The Fader today premiering her latest single, Divinity. While Unconditional had leanings towards slinky, future-R&B, Divinity (her first release on Inertia's new imprint Midnight Feature) is a deeper, darker cut, although still with a focus on her otherworldly production and layers for days. Take a listen below, and check a couple of live dates she's playing below that. UPCOMING SHOWS:   Fri 21 Nov: RTRFM Courtyard Club Series @ State Theatre Courtyard, Perth w/ Special Guest DJs (EVENT) Sun 23 Nov: Sunday City Limits @ Vic On The Park Hotel, Sydney w/ Jack Ladder, The Harpoons & Milwaukee Banks (EVENT) Sat 29 Nov: CoLAB Festival @ UWA Oak Lawn, Perth w/ Hermitude, The Kite String Tangle, The Jungle Giants + more (EVE

NAL are making it easy for music fiends to finally give a shit about our hearing..

French electronic duo Kuage drop their A Part Of You EP, and it's great.. If Flume and Caribou had a bady, and they decided they didn't have enough time to raise it, so they put that baby up for adoption, and then Nicolas Jaar took it under his wing, I think that would end up calling itself French duo Kuage. However accurate you feel the above summation is (or isn't) do yourself a favour and take a listen to Kuage's extended mix of their single A Part Of You below. It comes from the A Part Of You EP, also featuring B-side Break Osaka, and is a beautiful composition of electronica. They dropped the original single a year ago, but only last month released the proper EP package. It's already seen them appearing at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival - no small feat given it's their first official release, and a clear indication they've been earmarked for big things. Stream it below, buy it HERE, and if you can't get enough get stuck into their half-hour A Part Of Us Mix with Paris La Nui

One act per showcase over two hectic nights.. Header photo by Declan Lee Photography for Trapped The 2014 Electronic Music Conference is taking over Sydney in a couple of weeks, featuring more than 80 artists and industry leaders speaking over 20 panels to be held across The Eternity Playhouse, The Beresford Upstairs, Lo-Fi and The Standard Bowl in Sydney's Darlinghurst from December 2-4. Along with the daytime conferences, there's also the recently announced (and enormous) EMC Play lineup, blending the days into nights with 120 artists and 16 showcases over four venues and two nights. For a more comprehensive rundown head HERE, but for the purpose today's article we've picked one act across the different showcases (with multiple artists - sorry Halfwaycrooks, Purple Sneakers and the TBA Onelove showcases!) we're excited to get down with. So here goes nothin': WED 3 DEC KINGS CROSS HOTEL PLASTIC WORLD: 8PM-12.30AM / LEVEL 2 GL GL have very quickly risen to the national eye with the rel

Heartbreakers v Beatmakers: Collarbones team up with Oscar Key Sung on a new track.. Sydney’s Marcus Whale and Adelaide’s Travis Cook are the wonderful Collarbones, a producer duo who’ve been making genre-defying, forward-thinking music together for nearly eight years now. I never heard their first album but their second album, 2011's Die Young, featuring HTML Flowers and Guerre, is a firm favourite of mine - a gem of a broken R & B / experimental club / house thing, thematically built around heartbreak and teen nostalgia, and structurally built on glitchy, post dubstep beats. It sits somewhere between James Blake, Burial and The Weekend, at times moving torwards the more big-room weirdo-house of Teengirl Fantasy, and full of the kind of jams that are nice to listen to when you come home at 3am. Seeing Collarbones perform live at Outside In Festival in Sydney a couple of years back, and then again last year at The Bird in Perth, have both been totally memorable experiences - the boys b