Australian Music Is Bloody Great: LÂLKA

Where do you hear great new Australian music these days? Community radio is one crucial outlet and Amrap – the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project - offers Australian musicians a pathway to airplay from the hundreds of community stations to a weekly listenership of nearly 6,000,000 people. Go to amrap.org.au to get your music to thousands of presenters using the site each month to find new Australian music. If you haven’t got your music on Amrap, what are you waiting for? Community radio uses Amrap to source Australian music for airplay. You can discover all the great Australian music championed by community radio on the Community Radio Plus App, featuring the diverse range of community radio stations nationwide in one handy spot!

Amrap’s national radio show Australian Music Is Bloody Great features Australian artists presenting their favourite recent Australian music. Australian Music Is Bloody Great’s previous hosts range from Dune Rats to Sampa The Great to Phil Jameison.

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This article originally appeared on amrap.org.au
Written by Joshua Kreusler

Malaysian-born, Brisbane-based artist, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and DJ LÂLKA deals in boundary-pushing electronic music. Described as effervescent glitch future-club music, her sound fuses hardcore trance, intricate hyperpop, delirious J-core, and gleeful Eurodance. With the recent release of her debut mixtape, Romance + Rebellion, LÂLKA hops on Australian Music Is Bloody Great to share some of her Australian music inspirations.

MUNGMUNG - ATTITUDE PROBLEM [Feat. 1300]

This features the Australian/Korean 1300. It's a really fun one.

Dom Dolla - Eat Your Man

Eat Your Man features Nelly Furtado. I wonder if the title of this track references Nelly Furtado's track Maneater.

Ninajirachi - 1x1 [Feat. Ravenna Golden]

I swear I love everything Ninajirachi puts out. Fun fact: she was also on production duties for my track, Angel/Jezebel, which was released back in 2021.

Haiku Hands - Nunchucka

If you have never seen Haiku Hands live before then I strongly suggest going to one of their gigs. I remember being on support for them a while back and I can definitely confirm that their live shows are so much fun, pumping full of energy just like this track.

LION - Not Your Fetish

Here's what [LION] has to say about this track:

"As minorities and marginalized people, so many of us have narratives written about us by people who see us as two dimensional. This song is a combination of those toxic narratives. We have the power to write our own stories and we don't need to censor or simplify them for anyone. Our stories are messy, complex, nuanced and we refuse to be reduced to a fetish."

I totally agree. This is a total banger filled with confidence and self affirmation to strut to. Turn it up!

LÂLKA - Romance + Rebellion

Recently, I released my mixtape titled Romance+Rebellion. The mixtape blends elements of hyperpop, j-core, and hardcore with hard-hitting beats and kawaii melodies. Yes, this is the type of music I personally love. The mixtape is structured as a literal mix, and it is meant to be experienced in a niche underground rave, whether that be an otaku nightclub or an industrial warehouse performance. This track is definitely a leftfield kind of track. It is about existing with a neurodivergent brain, which I have, and everything I experience is intense all the time. But that can be such a special and joyful experience as well. If you've got headphones, I suggest you pop them on and get the full immersive experience. 

Tour Dates
Aug 12 - FIFA Fan Festival (Meanjin) - LÂLKA (DJ set)

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