Triple J Just Dropped Its ‘Hottest 100’ Unearthed Artists & Flume Took #1

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November 12, 2016

Since its establishment, Triple J Unearthed hasn’t exactly struggled to keep up with the plain ol J’s. In fact, it’s kinda proven itself as Triple J’s beating heart.

Torrents of undiscovered Aussie talent flow through it on the reg, they’ve decided to prove it on the tenth birthday of triplejunearthed.com with a Hottest 100-esque countdown of their best discoveries.

The number one entry doesn’t come as a surprise: Flume’s genre-defining career featured an early boost by way of Unearthed, and hell, we’d be stoked to call him one of our discoveries too.

Grammy-nominated Courtney Barnett has deffo earned her place at #2, and The Rubens’ Hottest 100 of 2015 win obviously powered them to third place. In fact, acts one through ten alone account for seven top-ten Hottest 100 entries, which is

in itself.

Get around the full list below. If it doesn’t spur you to crack open Ableton or bust out some barre chords on your brother’s Telecaster, we don’t know what will:

1. Flume

2. Courtney Barnett

3. The Rubens

4. Boy & Bear

5. Meg Mac

6. Ball Park Music

7. The Jezabels

8. Sticky Fingers

9. Big Scary

10. Japanese Wallpaper

11. Allday

12. San Cisco

13. The Middle East

14. RUFUS

15. Remi.

16. SAFIA

17. Montaigne

18. Gang Of Youths

19. Art Vs Science

20. Tkay Maidza

21. Seth Sentry

22. Kucka

23. DZ Deathrays

24. The Smith Street Band

25. Thelma Plum

26. Vance Joy

27. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard

28. The Preatures

29. Megan Washington

30. Dune Rats

31. Ngaiire

32. Alpine

33. Northeast Party House

34. Sampa The Great

35. Emma Louise

36. Little Red

37. Little May

38. Client Liaison

39. Kingswood

40. Tired Lion

41. The Kite String Tangle

42. Airling

43. Northlane

44. Harts

45. Vallis Alps

46. The Jungle Giants

47. Gordi

48. Ta Ku

49. Hockey Dad

50. Cub Sport

51. Asta

52. L FRESH The LION

53. Methyl Ethel

54. UV boi

55. Bad//Dreems

56. D.D Dumbo

57. Trophy Eyes

58. Wave Racer

59. Ali Barter

60. John Steel Singers

61. Luca Brasi

62. Matt Corby

63. L D R U

64. Stonefield

65. Baro

66. Seekae

67. Cloud Control

68. Hungry Kids Of Hungary

69. Saskwatch

70. Dustin Tebbutt

71. Tash Sultana

72. Jinja Safari

73. Alex Lahey

74. Holy Holy

75. Jimblah

76. Willow Beats

77. The Griswolds

78. Gossling

79. Philadelphia Grand Jury

80. Oh Mercy

81. Gretta Ray

82. Last Dinosaurs

83. The Bennies

84. Elizabeth Rose

85. Yeo

86. Bored Nothing

87. Julia Jacklin

88. The Ocean Party

89. Kira Puru

90. Young & Restless

91. Tigertown

92. E^ST

93. Gooch Palms

94. Kuren

95. The Hard Aches

96. Jess Kent

97. Robbie Miller

98. Dylan Joel

99. Mosquito Coast

100. Middle Kids