700 Feel

700 Feel are a Sydney-based electronic duo comprised of Jonny Hawkins and Juan Villamor who bring together UK garage, hip hop, dub and house with subtle shadings of footwork and jazz interspersed throughout. Together, they channel the organic electronica of Four Tet, the shuffling production of Jamie xx and Nicolás Jaar’s ability to move from ambient soundscapes to bass-heavy club beats and back again. Threading together London, Chicago, Kingston, Bristol and Sydney, these musical threads all come together in the meeting point of 700 Feel.

Despite possessing a sound pieced together from around the globe, 700 Feel ground their project very firmly in their Australian roots of Sydney. Energised by community and collectivism, they find inspiration in their surroundings and the people and stories that populate the city, with their debut AA-side T1 Western / Back 2 The Area centred on that feeling of coming home. Filtered through the perspectives of two migrant kids growing up on the outskirts of Sydney, 700 Feel is an authentic, affectionate homage to the melting pot of the area, the kind of exchange of ideas and culture that could’ve only happened there.

Ryan Fennis & Voidhood

Ryan Fennis & Voidhood are two artists from Canberra now operating in the Naarm/Melbourne underground. Their latest album EXTENDER pushes the duo’s respective sounds into new territory, pulling in elements of industrial, experimental hip-hop, club and left-field punk - creating an otherworldly sonic experience. It is a reflection on the ‘age of overstimulation,’ drawing from Fennis & Voidhood’s experiences of digital immersion and navigating present-day dystopias.

FBi Radio selected it as Album of the Week and wrote “Stretching the limits of electronic hip-hop and industrial club sounds, [EXTENDER] mirrors the ever-increasing rapidity of music culture, online worlds, and dystopic creep…As much as EXTENDER is a struggle with a world slipping increasingly out of control, it is also a show of valiance, of extending beyond oneself to create something better.”

Fennis & Voidhood are members of the burgeoning artist collective and self-described “thriving ecosystem” CONTENT.NET.AU. Representing sounds at the intersection of rap, club and electronic, they are focused on reaching beyond current systems and structures and building community through their music.