Butter Sessions is marking 15 years with an all-day festival at Collingwood Children's Farm in Melbourne on Good Friday.
The Melbourne-based record label, run by Sleep D’s Corey Kikos and Maryos Syawish, has assembled 19 artists across three stages for the 3 April celebration. The lineup pulls from the label’s deep roster of local talent alongside international guests, with Japanese producers Kuniyuki and Gonno both performing live sets on the banks of the Yarra River in Abbotsford. Thai selector Sunju Hargun rounds out the overseas contingent.
Locally, the bill reads like a who’s who of the Butter Sessions universe. Sleep D headline with a live set, joined by label affiliates Cale Sexton, Guy Contact, Albrecht La’Brooy, OK EG, Kate Miller, Mosam Howieson, Hybrid Man and Tangerine — all performing live. DJs Darcy Justice, Pjenné, DJ PGZ, Venus Flytrap, Hasvat and Informant fill out the rest of the card.
15 years of Butter Sessions
- Collingwood Children’s Farm, 18 St Heliers St, Abbotsford
- 3 April, 2pm–11pm
- $60–$80
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- Albrecht La’Brooy (Live)
- Cale Sexton (Live)
- Darcy Justice
- DJ PGZ
- Emelyne
- Gonno (Live)
- Guy Contact (Live)
- Hasvat
- Hybrid Man (Live)
- Informant
- Kate Miller (Live)
- Kuniyuki (Live)
- Mosam Howieson (Live)
- OK EG (Live)
- Pjenné
- Sleep D (Live)
- Sunju Hargun
- Tangerine (Live)
- Turner Street Sound
- Venus Flytrap
Butter Sessions has been operating out of Melbourne since 2010, steadily building a catalogue that bridges local Australian producers with like-minded artists overseas — particularly in Japan. The label’s output sits across a wide swathe of electronic music, from dub-inflected house and modular techno to breakbeat and industrial rave, all tied together by a curatorial eye that has consistently favoured the weird and the danceable in equal measure. The event coincides with the release of BSRXV, a trilogy of anniversary 12-inches collecting new material from across the label’s roster — a fitting companion piece to what amounts to a Melbourne underground family reunion on the grass.
The farm has quietly become one of Melbourne’s best outdoor event spaces. Situated on the banks of the Yarra just five kilometres from the CBD, it’s hosted everything from NYE dance parties to day-long electronic festivals and barn raves. For Butter Sessions, it’s a fitting setting — the label has always leaned toward community-minded, slightly offbeat gatherings over conventional club bookings.
Good Friday plans sorted
Butter Sessions also runs shows in Sydney (2 April at Poor Toms Oltra) and Canberra (3 April at Gang Gang Cafe and Bar) as part of the Melbourne anniversary celebrations, but the Collingwood Children’s Farm edition is the main event. With a nine-hour runtime, three stages and a label that has spent 15 years keeping things deliberately weird, this is one of the stronger Good Friday options going.
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