Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Victorian College of the Arts Students

Asha Trips is a bassist / vocalist / composer / producer living in Naarm (Melbourne). They have written, performed and/or recorded with a range of artists since moving to Naarm 6 years ago, including Kee’ahn, Gordon Koang, Rara Zulu, Komang, Nikodimos, Jaala and within their band Messy Mammals (which Asha co-founded with creative partner / regular collaborator, Finn Irregular). With a new four-track EP due for release early in 2023, Asha is excited to continue taking their music and insular experiences outwards to an audience; in the hope they can find comfort in knowing their identities – and potentials for growth and change – are limitless, too.

A psytrance and hardstyle Chinese-American music producer, DJ, and songwriter from Melbourne, Australia

Fia Fiell is the moniker of Vietnamese-Australian electronic musician, synthesist, composer and pianist Carolyn Schofield. She performs as a keyboardist on multiple synthesisers, playing and processing them in real time to create otherworldly and unsettling soundscapes that meld lush melodic cycles and ecstatic drones. Wielding an improvisational and elastic approach to time, space and rhythm, she creates evocative and arresting compositions that feel as powerful and confronting as they do warm, organic and intimate.

Grease-trap is a musical project by Serge Balaam focusing on heavy left-field club music. All the way from Darwin, Northern Territory, Grease trap’s music is raw and heavy, yet drenched in bouncy rhythms, making the sonic landscape intoxicating.

JC SHARP is an electric multi-instrumental artist from Melbourne, fusing emotive classical melodies and ethereal ambient soundscapes with hard-hitting hip-hop drums and pulsating basslines. Amidst a psychedelic audio-visual spectacle, he incorporates live looping, sample triggering, DJing and improvised instrumental solos into his performance, driven by a signature blend of high energy and technical precision. Inspired by the work of Timbaland, Martin Garrix, KSHMR and Ludwig Goransson, JC SHARP showcases the euphoria and boundlessness of electronic music in all its splendour.

Since 2001, Mike Callander has been recognised as one of Australia’s most diverse and yet consistent selectors. He continues to open and close for countless touring artists in Australia and at various destinations across the world, but more importantly has helmed critical residencies at home in Melbourne clubbing institutions such as Honkytonks, for which he also compiled and recorded The Last Dance mix CD released globally in 2007, and more recently at Revolver, where his weekly Friday night offering continues into its second decade.  Today Mike is more inspired for DJing and live performance than ever, but also has an additional focus: Here To Hell, the label he formed with Kim Moyes (of The Presets) and their production outfit, Zero Percent. Thus far they have turned out genre-smashing remixes for The Drones, The Avalanches and The Jezabels.

Mønarch’s productions are filled with spacious beats taking you on a cerebral journey, using sound bites from nature to provide a tone of realism and naturalistic ambience. Creating energetic, blissful, warming sets that are in line with his personality and nature, Mønarch is a name to watch as he looks to make his mark and provide his own unique take on the electronic music scene.

Across all the forms the act has taken, R. P. Downie has never been one to embrace subtleties. First a theatrical rock band, then an avant-garde ensemble featuring a loose assortment of bike-wheels, carrots, giant springs, vibrators, and Lego. Now, Downie is back with a set more horrible than ever before. Sickening love ballads, plastic MIDI eurotrash bangers, and epic showtunes – the worst parts of the songs you despise the most turned up to 11.

Remy Ondrey (he/they) is a multi-faceted pop performer, songwriter and producer. Although they are now based in Melbourne, Remy was brought up in the South West of WA, where when they were 11 years old they started producing (*questionable*) songs on Garage Band. At age 14, Remy saved up to buy music-making software Logic Pro, and from there they developed their songwriting and production to a new level. Now authentically queer, Remy’s catchy, relatable and irresistible synth pop is guaranteed to make you want to get up on your feet and dance.

Reuben Rasmussen is a musician and artist from Melbourne/ Naarm, specialising in diverse composition, ranging from Indie-Jazz to Jungle-Break Techno. Whilst developing his personal repertoire, Rasmussen performs with The Platinum Project; an Indie-jazz/ Neo-soul group also forming in Melbourne/ Naarm. His extended musical knowledge and passion for sound, breaks down barriers between genre, creating a multi-faceted performance.

SHIVERS is the electropop project of Di Drew (they/them). Drawing from DIY/lo-fi traditions such as witchhouse, plunderphonics and dreampop, SHIVERS invites you to bask in the soft glow of millennial nostalgia, & gaze upon the rolling tides of TikTok-induced existential dread.

STAMP is a music producer and DJ, focusing on everything from techno to electro.