Cloud909 solar-charges the long weekend, bringing Amsterdam heroes Kamma & Masalo (Rush Hour) Manchester legend Ruf Dug (Rüf Kutz) and local support to the Manning Bar courtyard for some open-air, sun-drenched saturnalia.

Kamma & Masalo return to Australia for the first time since 2020 with their inquisitive and uplifting taste for borderless funk. The four-sided brain behind the legendary Amsterdam party and mix series Brighter Days has clogged up the Dutch and international circuit for over a decade, performing at DGTL, Rainbow Disco Club, ADE, and of course Dekmantel, site of their 2019 Boiler Room. Off the stage, the pair have helped to found renowned listening bar Doka, and released original music, edits and compilations by themselves, as a duo, and in dance music legends, highlighted by Masalo’s projects with Soichi Terada and Jamie 3:26. In 2025 they will be building on their catalogue and ushering in the twilight of the Sydney silly season with an unmissable sunset set.

Mancunian maestro, NTS Resident, and Ibiza stalwart Ruf Dug has a special connection to the Emerald City. Before a decades-long earth-roaming career as a producer and DJ, he cut his teeth in the Sydney warehouse scene, playing his first ever gig at a squat party just off the tarmac of the Kingsford Smith airport. The Sydney Disco Mafia EP, the second release on his prolific label Ruf Kutz, honours this place in a way that would make most Sydneysiders blush, especially when it’s coming from one of the UK’s most storied, practiced and enthusiastic selectors. The synth-obsessive audiophile and platonic ideal of a DJ returns once again in January to turn the south pacific balearic.

The deep house sensibilities of Melbourne Deepcast co-founder Myles Mac combine improbably well with the trance, cumbia, prog, and reggaeton influences of Colombian-born DJ Possum. Their alchemistry has taken them from their Victorian stomping grounds to legendary clubs like New York’s Bossa Nova Civic Club and Nowadays. The pair’s combined digging and life experiences fit decades into DJ sets, and don’t look to slow down any time soon. They come north with bags of experience and pouches of brilliance to share.

Adi Toohey has the keys to the city. We’ve heard that she had a table and a complementary bucket of olives reserved for her at Freda’s for years before it became a restaurant. Her marathon career has seen her play every party worth its electrolytes in Sydney, in addition to bookings abroad at London’s Pickle Factory, Amsterdam’s ADE and Berlin’s Tresor. She’s dug like a kelpy through record crates for nigh on a decade and is showing no signs of slowing down.

—Cloud 909 acknowledges this event will be held on the unceded land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land, and we encourage any First Nations Australians to contact us regarding options if they face difficulty affording a ticket.