Mutant music from the upside down. Neither one genre nor another, New Weird Australia is designed to challenge our collective understanding of what music can and should be. We support new, eclectic and experimental Australian music through a variety of evolving projects.

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Mutant Music From The Upside Down | Streaming Playlist, Seventh Edition

Our streaming playlist has been refreshed, with 55 tracks of new and recent Australian releases. Listen on Spotify, Tidal and YouTube. This is the seventh edition of our Playlist, catalogue NWAPL007, with a runtime of 4h15m.  Featuring: 00_ @00__000000__00000_0_____, A’Bear, Absurd Cosmos Late Nite, Acopia, […]

New Weird Australia, Worlds Only World | NWA024

Compiled by ‘transient ambient’ group Worlds Only, featuring 24 tracks of post-genre experimentation with debut collaborations, one-off matchups, spin-offs, and rarities. Listen and donate on Bandcamp. ‘Community’ in experimental music is a nebulous thing. Online, it is sprawling and vaporous; on ground, it can be […]

salllvage ‘lastwave’ | NWAED014

‘lastwave’ by salllvage is Edition No.14 (NWAED014) in the New Editions artist series, curated by New Weird Australia.  Ambient through the looking glass of Indigenous Futurisms… Kombumerri artist salllvage (Rowan Savage) mutates a palette made 100% from field recordings (plus mysterious vox) to construct a […]

Sumn Conduit ‘Valve Is Released’ | NWAED013

‘Valve Is Released’ by Sumn Conduit is Edition No.13 (NWAED013) in the New Editions artist series, curated by New Weird Australia.  Sumn Conduit is the duo project of Dharawal/Inuk vocalist Sonya Holowell , and modular synthesist and composer Ben Carey . Working across new music […]

Mutant Music From The Upside Down | Autumn 2023 Spotify Playlist

New and recent releases on Spotify, selected by New Weird Australia.  The latest seasonal Spotify playlist refresh includes 35 new, weird Australian tracks across nearly three hours of music. This is the sixth edition of our Playlist, catalogue NWAPL006, with a runtime of 2h43m.  Featuring […]

New Weird Australia, Fragile States | NWA022

Featuring 25 tracks across over two hours, Fragile States is a collection of ambient / experimental / electronic works that seeks to soundtrack our perilous times. Available as a Name Your Price download / stream from Bandcamp. Ambient Music was defined by Brian Eno as “atmosphere … […]

Pattern Recognition Machines ‘Monad’ | NWAED011

Monad by Pattern Recognition Machines is Edition No.11 (NWAED011) in the New Editions artist series, curated by New Weird Australia.  Pattern Recognition Machines is an improvising musical unit of human consciousness interfacing with technology based in Melbourne, Australia. Originally the synth-and-drum project of Vijay Thillaimuthu […]

Mutant Music From The Upside Down | Winter 2022 Spotify Playlist

New and recent releases on Spotify, selected by New Weird Australia.  The Winter 2022 Spotify playlist is now up, featuring new and recent music from Various Asses, Vacuum, Sow Discord, Sudden Debt, Erasers, Troth, Princess Diana of Wales, Liars, Shoeb Ahmad, HTRK, 100%, Gyrate, Zacharias […]

New Weird Australia, Collapse Theories | NWA021

Featuring 28 unreleased tracks from experimental and underground Australian artists, New Weird Australia, Collapse Theories emerges at the tail-end of the two-year pandemic, and takes a precise psychic snapshot of the bridge between then and now. As artists endeavour to once again lift their heads […]