Gilles Peterson - Liberty Hall COURTS - SYD

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.