Hania Rani’s music grabs you – its gravitational pull sucks you into a hypnotic trance, regardless of your will. Pianist, composer, and vocalist, she has emerged as a genre-blending nonconformist who nevertheless has made a name for herself interweaving classical, jazz, and electronic influences.

Born in 1990 in Gdańsk, Poland – a city renowned for the Solidarity resistance movement – Hania began playing the piano at age seven. She eventually trained as a classical pianist in Warsaw and later pursued studies in Berlin, where she began to explore electronic music.

She is a quiet star – more interested in connection than fame or spectacle – and constantly seeks the new in her work, challenging herself and her audience in an active process for renewal and regeneration. Chilling Bambino acts as her alter-ego, an ever-evolving project that foregrounds her love of the Prophet synth taking the listener on a sonic adventure through dark-tinted electronica and hypnotic rhythms as Rani lets loose.

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For billy woods, literate rhymes and inventive flows are littered through all his works. So much so, it’s hard to pinpoint his exact genre. But for the New York-based rapper, his music career began in the early 2000s, however, he was largely unknown until 2012 after the release of his solo album History Will Absolve Me. Since then, woods has gone onto release music under Armand Hammer – a collaborative project with ELUCID – and an array of solo albums like Today, I Wrote Nothing (2015), Maps (2023) and more.

His latest solo release – the 2025 album GOLLIWOG – has been deemed his most experimental yet. So much so, Pitchfork described it as “a twisty horrorcore masterpiece where history and nightmares are indistinguishable” and a “perfect showcase for his craft”. It mixes horror, humour, surrealism and Afropessimism into the one work: think African zombies, time traveling trap cars, malevolent ragdolls and a dying Frantz Fanon.

Five-time Grammy award-nominated composer, Suzanne Ciani, and one of the most influential contemporary electronic producers, Darren J. Cunningham (aka Actress), come together for the performance of ‘Concrète Waves’. An unlikely pairing? Or a fascinating musical partnership?

Suzanne Ciani’s musical endeavours have largely been devoted to delivering more feminine sensibilities out of machines, in particular the Buchla. Time and time again, the ocean has offered a rich metaphor for the feminine systems she is eager to encapsulate to her listeners, filling performance spaces with swelling oceanic soundwaves alongside synthesizer melodies and timbres.

As a stark counterpoint Actress’ practice of ‘R&B’ Concrète – a unique methodology coined in response to Pierre Schaeffer’s Musique Concrète – allows Cunningham the ability to encompass the wider world of experimental and populist music, whilst always positioned from the eerie lens of introversion and solitary meditation.

By harnessing the power of their similarities and differences, the artists will come together in a collaboration for Unsound Adelaide exploring the juxtaposition of the natural and industrial world.

Sound artists FUJI||||||||||TA (Japan) and Ka Baird (US) meld together the natural with the performative in this collaboration for Unsound Adelaide.

FUJI||||||||||TA is an artist with an interest in hearing the unheard and unknown sounds, aiming to go as far as possible towards his own unknown state of being, with an emphasis on observing the sound closely. Along with sounds from nature, Fujita plays with air through a custom, hand-fabricated pipe organ, conceived and built using his imagination. In his recent sets, he focuses on a style using just two pipes and airbrushes, evolving toward a more minimal approach.

Performer, sound artist, musician and composer Ka Baird uses extended voice and microphone techniques along with electronics, feedback, field recordings, and traditional instrumentalisation to explore the outer dimensions of sound. They create a present tense sound with a vigorous, ritualistic delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension.

Polish experimental music producer Przemysław Jankowiak (aka 2K88) leads this live, genre-blending collaboration that reaches across borders.

From exploring avant garde soundscapes, through alternative rap, to collaboration with alt-pop artists and releasing electronic club material, 2K88 is constantly checking different paths and trying to break boundaries. Locking eyes with three like-minded innovators for this collaboration – Manchester-based Rainy Miller, blending drill, folk music and industrial noise in his own brand of “Northern Gothic”, and London-based artists Lauren Duffus, navigating a sci-fi tinged, R&B-adjacent, ambient pop space, and Bianca Scout, a dancer and producer working in surreal narrative-led performances – 2K88 brings his latest sonic collaboration to Unsound Adelaide.

Actress (aka Darren J Cunningham) is a giant of electronic composition, a far-seeing philosopher-complicator whose explorations have prefigured and pioneered many of the great themes in the club since his acclaimed debut in 2010.

Over the sweep of Darren’s career he has not only created his own arcane language, filled with hermetic references and interdimensional techno and electro, but he arrived at many of the currents of the last twenty years first, often pushing out the waves and ripples of influence in his wake, from reimaging Stockhausen to collaborating with an AI trained on his own music as far back as 2018.

DJ Scorpion is a Naarm-based DJ and music programmer. Her sets are less about genre and more about feeling, with a sense of freedom to how she moves through techno, jungle, DnB, IDM, tech house, psy and beyond, following energy rather than rigid genre confines.

Before focusing more fully on DJing, she built a career in music programming, including serving as Music Director at FBi Radio – shaping taste, supporting emerging artists, and developing a deep understanding of how people connect with music. Her mixes have appeared via Bizarro (Resident Advisor Mix of the Month), Butter Sessions, Melbourne Deepcast, Red Light Radio and Animalia.

LEYA, the American duo of harpist Marilu Donovan and vocalist/violinist Adam Markiewicz, creates work within a singular world. Through a lone LP, a cassette, three EPs, a mixtape, an adult film, and a flurry of collaborations, they have traced far corners of the international underground while gracing major fashion runways, the home page of PornHub, and institutions like MoMA and the Palais de Tokyo. Cohorts include Eartheater, Actress, Ecco2K, Brooke Candy, Sega Bodega, james K, Varg2TM, claire rousay, Okay Kaya, Chanel Beads, HTRK and many more.

Crafted of three basic elements - detuned harp (designed in a system by Donovan for the project), operatic yet beguiling vocals (delivered in an unlikely range by Markiewicz), and the enmeshment of his violin sound within those vocals, the duo has sought to explore as widely as possible with their language, creating work that continually defies what might seem possible. The New York Times has called it “the auditory equivalent of awakening in the fog of a bad dream only to discover you’re still trapped in the nightmare,” while The Guardian describes “a titanic feat … music that sounds simultaneously 300 years old and somewhere from the distant future.”

This will be LEYA's debut performance in Australia.

Sebastian Vivian and Wellness Centre are Kaurna based artists working at the intersection of electronic music and sound art. Both draw on long-standing individual practices spanning experimental composition, installation, and live performance to create work grounded in collaboration and exploration.

Over the past decade, Sebastian has developed a body of work across self-released and international labels, with performances at festivals and venues including WOMADelaide, Strawberry Fields, and The Lab, alongside exhibitions at AGSA and Staff Only Gallery. Wellness Centre is the electronic music project of Anders Bogdanowicz. He combines digital synthesis and signal processing with degraded tape and analog techniques, creating compositions that feel precise yet eroded and haunted by memory. His work has been presented at spaces such as Ancient World, The Lab, and the University of Adelaide.

Following their first collaborative performance in 2025 and the release of their debut album Florys, the duo reunite for a new live set created specifically for Unsound Adelaide 2026.

While their earlier work together explored more organic, ambient, and ecologically inflected sound worlds, this new iteration moves into darker, heavier territory. Drawing inspiration from past Unsound artists they’ve long admired, the set will lean into weight, texture, and intensity, expanding their shared language into something more powerful.

e fishpool’s music is a place you can go. Set inside an ocean of richly layered synths, anchored by a drummer's percussive restraint, her electronic compositions fill the club with euphoria to the brim.

Her sampling and mimicry honours the fleeting and eternal nature of music in all forms, tracing lines through histories to present, destroying and rebuilding herself with every set.

Michael Ellingford is a noise artist living on Kaurna Land. Active in the music scene for over a decade, Michael now works under his own name, with synthesizer led sets exploring a wall of noise from crackling sound to pulsing oscillations.

His releases include A Tangled Web (2017), a detailed sonic depiction of decay and brokenness on a post-industrial canvas, and Night Magick (2024), a work fitted with a darker lens shaded by hints of death industrial and Arctic minimalism.

Michael Ellingford will deliver a mid-night noise intervention on Friday’s Unsound Club at Ancient World.

Born in Pereira, Colombia, Lucrecia Dalt has carved out a distinctive space in contemporary music. Her trajectory from civil engineer to sound artist began while working at a geotechnical company in Medellín, where she discovered computer-based music production – a revelation that completely redirected her life and creative focus.

For nearly two decades, Dalt has explored and expanded her sonic palette and surrealist tendencies through solo and collaborative works, including 2022’s ¡Ay!, which earnt recognition from The Wire as album of the year and top ten inclusions in Pitchfork, The New York Times, and NPR’s year’s best. During this period, Dalt also ventured into television film scoring, composing the original score for the HBO series The Baby (2022), and more recently, the critically acclaimed On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) and psychological horror Rabbit Trap (2025), bringing her distinctive sound design to narrative contexts. In 2025, she released A Danger to Ourselves, her most personal and sonically ambitious work to date.

The quartet of Zack Borzone (vox), Jack Tobias (synth), Sam Pickard (drums), and Saguiv Rosenstock (guitar) display an innate ability to translate a primitive spirit into a modern form.

Born during the lockdown as an experimental project between Borzone and Pickard in Philadelphia, the group expanded as the two moved to New York, adding Tobias for their debut self-titled EP, which was produced by Rosenstock, who was then integrated into the band. That first collection is one of self-discovery, of finding the tools necessary to make songs within the band’s own ecosystem. They honed in on their own world and their collaborative, close-knit writing process, discovering the essential structures and feelings that make YHWH Nailgun.

Elsie Craig is the driving force of an ever-growing list of projects, including grassroots camping festivals, unique club concepts, and pop-up raves. These projects are a reflection of a stern dedication to the success and fulfilment of South Australia’s underground electronic music scene through the vision of her own lens. From Terrifying Discovery to Moon Jelly to Bloom and all the Small City parties in between – everything she’s part of carries a sense of community, curiosity and care.

A familiar face at Subvert, Small City, Inside Out, duck! Radio and Sanctuary, as a DJ Elsie’s been cheekily moulding the electronic music scene into her own unique shape as she sees fit for over half a decade. Her DJ sets reflect a capable artist who is heavily defined by her city and experiences.

DJ Cookie is the club moniker of Angela Schilling, a DJ, musician, community organiser and archivist living and working on Kaurna Yerta. She is a founding member of OUR YARD, a crew from Tarndanya focusing on hosting club nights for and by queer and BIPOC community, already hosting a range of local, Australian and international guests. She is also a founding member of Big Bao, a collective platforming Asian-Australian artists and creatives. She has been an active member of the DIY music and arts scene in Tarndanya for the past 15 years, and is currently a part of duck! radio running out of Thebarton.

Having toured nationally and internationally as both a DJ and musician, Cookie brings soul and melody to her club sound. While her sets can go deep when needed, Cookie blends heavy bass and UK sounds of garage and percussive drum with vocal edits and a pop sensibility.

London-based producer, vocalist and DJ Lauren Duffus began composing and producing during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020 and soon discovered the ways it helped her to navigate her emotions (specifically grief at the time) through music. Lo-fi tracks began to surface on her Soundcloud page, such as Stir Fry which would later become one third of her debut EP SULK – made up of 3 experimental yet minimalist dance tracks that weave reflective, melancholic and hopeful melodies, crying sounds and dancehall drums.

Simultaneously playful and tender, her unique sound articulates something heartfelt and cinematic, which quickly singled her out as an exciting addition to London’s experimental electronic scene.

Don’t miss Lauren’s live collaboration, led by Polish producer 2K88, with UK artists Rainy Miller and Bianca Scout on Friday at Unsound Adelaide.

Friday at Lion Arts Factory: 2K88, Rainy Miller, Lauren Duffus, Bianca Scout
Saturday Unsound Afterparty at Ancient World: DJ set

Music producer, graphic designer, and audio director 2K88 (aka Przemysław Jankowiak), was raised on the pioneering rap records of the 1990s in Poland, a country in post-communist transition at the time. From his first homemade beats to the progression of his artistry as he distanced himself from hip-hop, going deeper into the world of sampling experiments and the post-genre avant-garde – the rawness, chunkiness, and paranoia he took from his influential early years have always been an integral part of his music.

In 2024, 2K88 released the album SHAME, in collaboration with Unsound. In his latest work, the producer invokes the spirit of PL SOUND, a genre local to Poland inspired by British soundsystem music, but infused with the unique social, urban, and sonic themes of its ecosystem.

Don’t miss 2K88’s live collaboration with UK artists Rainy Miller, Lauren Duffus and Bianca Scout on Friday at Unsound Adelaide.

Friday at Lion Arts Factory: 2K88, Rainy Miller, Lauren Duffus, Bianca Scout
Saturday Unsound Afterparty at Ancient World: DJ set

Shannen SP is a London-based artist, DJ, and creative hybrid. Described as “quietly prolific" by Crack Magazine, her music and electrifying DJ sets explore the vanguard of the global club underground, bridging Gqom, Kuduro, Afro and Latin Club, Bubbling, and more.

She has performed at Berghain, Fabric, Primavera Sound, Venice Biennale, Dekmantel Selectors, Waterworks, Nyege Nyege, Glastonbury, and Draaimolen, and more recently in East Asia and India. A key tastemaker in the UK underground, Shannen has worked a South African sample pack for Spitfire Audio’s LABS, compilations for NTS Radio’s label, and was formerly an A&R and DJ for Hyperdub Records – co-curating their iconic Ø parties and featuring as a vocalist on Nazar’s Air Strike and Bunker, with support slots for Arca, Jamie XX and Actress.

She recently launched her new digital arts and electronic music platform, CEL Studio, curating events at Berlin Art Week and Paris Art Basel.