Gilles Peterson returns to Sydney for a day party celebrating soulful sound, global rhythm, and boundaryless dance music. For over four decades, Peterson has operated as one of music’s great connectors. Across that time, he has traced lines between jazz, soul, electronic music, and global sounds across club culture and beyond, reshaping how these sounds are heard, shared, and understood.

For Peterson, music has always been about context as much as selection. Through radio, labels, festivals, and DJ sets, he has helped surface new movements while giving space for existing ones to evolve, building long-running platforms where artists can grow outside of short-lived cycles. His influence sits less in genre than in the ecosystems he has helped sustain, where improvisation, club culture, and diasporic sound continually intersect.

He has played a key role in bringing acid jazz, broken beat, Brazilian rhythms, jungle, and spiritual jazz into wider circulation, moving them from specialist spaces into global listening culture. From pirate radio beginnings to BBC 6 Music and international festivals, his focus has remained on discovery and shared musical language.

The night is shaped further by Amsterdam duo Kamma & Masalo, whose back-to-back sets have developed into a fluid, instinctive dialogue since 2014. Their approach reflects Amsterdam’s eclectic club tradition, moving between eras and styles with ease, balancing deep record knowledge with euphoric, high-energy instinct. Alongside their DJ sets, they have helped shape their local scene through projects including listening bar Doka and their Brighter Days platform on Rush Hour, which has become a space for both emerging and established selectors to sit side by side.

From Sydney, BRIA brings a distinctly local perspective shaped by her Dharawal/Eora roots and her role as host of Thursday Lunch on FBi Radio. Her sets move across bass-heavy club sounds, breaks, percussion-led cuts, and left-field vocal moments, driven by rhythm, contrast, and energy. Fresh from a Boiler Room debut, she represents a new generation of Sydney selectors moving fluidly between communities and dancefloor contexts.