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From where we're sitting in the time/space continuum it's right up at the pointy end of the year 2025. Music has helped us arrive battered but not broken, and we're dancing right up to the edge, to the year's final moments, and doing pirouettes.
Hepnobeat - the Dynamic Hepnotics, a 1981 single that was also on their 1982 EP titled Strange Land. This version from a 2016 compilation, Hepnobest.
Lygon Street Meltdown - the Melbourne Ska Orchestra, from their self-titled 2013 album. Lygon Street is a cultural and economic district in central Melbourne.
Fancy Dan - Ralph White. This version was reissued on the Austudy label in April 2025 as a compilation titled Disco. Ralph White was a musician and producer in Sydney when he was approached by a label to create four songs for two 12-inch singles of a popular new dance music called disco. Over two days at the Alberts Studio in Sydney (home of the Easybeats and birthplace of AC/DC), White and a handful of local studio players, including renowned guitarist Tommy Emmanuel, laid down four disco tracks.
Break It Bought It - Confidence Man, it was on their 2022 album Tilt.
Move - First Nations rapper Danzal Baker, better known as Baker Boy, from his 2021 album Gela.
Children of the Man - Bananagun, from their 2024 album Why Is the Colour of the Sky?
Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (From Now On) - Tex Perkins and the Fat Rubber Band, a 2021 single, covering a song by New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint.
What's That Sound? - Snout, the title track of their 1994 album.
Gimme Some Lovin’ - GANGgajang, using the familiar title for their own single from 1984. It was also on their 1985 album titled GANGgajang. This version from a compilation, The Glory Days of Aussie Pub Rock, vol.1, 2016.
Keep Your Monster On A Leash - Grand Wazoo, from a 2007 album titled Soul Monster, recorded live at the Rainbow Hotel in Melbourne, covering the Tower of Power song from 1991, which was written by Huey Lewis.
Cracks - by a young man who goes by the name Flash Poetry, from his album Reality, Now, a November 2025 release.
Here - Briggs, a single from 2017, with Caiti Baker singing. Briggs wrote the song to go with a TV campaign for the Australian National Rugby League.
Swampland - the Scientists, a 1982 single by the band led by Kim Salmon. This version from the 1983 Scientists compilation Blood Red River 1982-1984.
Under The Milky Way - the Church, it was on their 1988 album Starfish
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell us when we're done.
