Our commitment to our community is paramount to increase and retain our Culture and Languages to be used in the Digital Mediums across Greater Western Sydney and across the nation, like we have done over the last 26 years from 2000-2026.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our First Community Program-2000-2026

 

We established our First Community Program or Platform in 2000 called Blackout as an Afterparty and Club Night, it's still going strong all over the country today in 2026.

 

A PLACE WHERE ALL BLACKFULLAS CAN BE THEMSELVES AND ENJOY LIFE, CULTURE, LANGUAGE.

 

Blackout was established in 2000 originally as the Afterparty for Survival Festival in Bondi Park. From humble beginnings to Blackout Night Club Brand sets the stage for the ultimate premier Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander nightlife experience in Australia.

 

To give Blackfulla artists a platform to perform and network in mainstream Australia and the world.

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Home to some of the biggest Australian Indigenous & Non-Indigenous Hip Hop/RnB artists & DJ’s, such as:

 

DJ MELLY MEL

(Blackfulla DJ Mervin Roberts from Wollongong)

 

DJ KP

(Blackfulla DJ Kiah Perry from Kahrua New Castle)

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DJ GINZEL

(Blackfulla DJ Daniel Kennedy from Bathurst)

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DJ KINGFINITY

(Blackfulla Female DJ from Perth)

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JESSIE LEE

(Blackfulla R&B Singer from Wollongong)

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Creative Industries Business

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For the Blackfulla artists who approach us and ask for help, we workshop with them to give guidance to starting their own business as a sole trader like;

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1. Brand Awareness

2. How to determine your place in the market

3. How to create an Invoice

4. How to make & take bookings

5. New Logo Design

6. New Slogan 

7. New Flyer Design

8. New Business Cards

9. New .com.au website

10. ​New Social Media Platforms

11. How to create a Facebook & Instagram Page​s

12. How to Create an event on Facebook & Instagram

13. How create Ticketing on Facebook & Instagram

14. How to advertise on Facebook & Instagram

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As they are supporting and working with some of the biggest artists in Australia, they get to network and see how they can achieve a small business in the creative industries, to support their families.

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Australian and International Artists

 

DJ RNB ( New Orleans)

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DJ JEE TEE (Honolulu)

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DJ RUDE DOGG (Honolulu)

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DJ DIZ (Los Angeles)

 

DJ BLAKAL (Sydney) 

 

DJ TIKELS ( New Zealand)

 

DJ PETER GUNS ( New Zealand) 

 

DJ JOHNNY MAC (Sydney) 

 

DJ DON DUAN (Gold Coast) 

 

DJ DAROC (Sydney) 

 

DJ AYE-CUZ (Sydney) 

 

DJ ADRIAN MORTON (Sydney) just to name a few.

 

Featuring state of the art sound and lighting systems at Australia’s premier Venues Bondi Hotel (2000), South Sydney Leagues Club (Sydney 2006), Moulin Roughe Night Club (Sydney 2007), The Dean Hotel (Perth 2007), Discovery Night Club (Darwin 2007), Gillian’s (Cairns 2007), Velvet Underground Night Club ( Cairns 2007), Soho Super Club (Sydney 2009), Bertha Brown Bar (Melbourne 2010), HQ Night Club (Adelaide 2011), Velvet Underground (Cairns 2013), Jubilee Hotel (Brisbane 2013), Oxford Hotel (Sydney 2016), Agincourt Hotel ( Sydney 2017), Fever Night Club (Wollongong 2018), The Portugese Club (Kemblawarra 2018), The Kent Hotel (New Castle 2018), Platform one Nightclub (Melbourne 2019), The Market Hotel (Melbourne 2019), Surfers Paradise Beer Garden (2020).

 

Blackout is the perfect place to spend your night celebrating that special occasion to Australia’s premium Indigenous & Non-Indigenous DJ's playing the latest Hip Hop, RnB, Dancehall, Trap & Party Anthems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Second Community Program-2007

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In 2007 we launched our Second Community Program or Platform Redfern Records Entertainment which Produced Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander RNB Hip Hop Compilation Album called "BEATS FROM THA STREEZ' Volume 1. We had artists in the recording studio to produce their music 

Beats from Tha Streets- Volume One is Australia’s 1ST EVER Aboriginal hip hop/rap commercial compilation album. A product of the only known urban Aboriginal record label in Australia- REDFERN RECORDS ENTERTAINMENT, Beats from the Streets is set to take the nation by storm.

 

The album showcases some of the best Aboriginal community has to offer with appearances by some already known Indigenous artists such as:

-          TASK (SA)

-          Konnect-A-Dot (NSW)

-          J-Dash-P (NT)

-          Pott Street (NT)

-          Radical Son (NSW)

 

The album also features up and coming artists from the community of Redfern such as:

-          Colin Quinlan

-          Edie Coe

-          Aletha Penrith

-          Angeline Penrith

-          Tribal Ashes

Redfern Records Entertainment Label prides itself on promoting Indigenous Hip Hop & Rap as well as giving unknown artists the opportunity to step up and show the nation what they’ve got to offer.

 

'This album we’ve created is just a taste of Urban Aboriginal Flava and the beginning of much more to come from our people!'

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Our Third Community Program 2009-2020

 
In 2009 we launched the Bump Awards our Third Community Program or Platform because it has been assumed by progressive Australians that there would be Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander representation in mainstream Hip Hop and R&B music industry. Redfern Records has received the endorsement by the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community of Australia, thus certifying that a strong collective approval for its activities exists amongst the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community. With the backing of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community of Australia, Redfern Records confidently anticipates providing world-class National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Hip Hop and R&B awards night showcase. 
 

Purpose    
 

To establish the celebration of Urban Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Culture through the National Bump Hip Hop and R&B Awards being held in a major city every year. It is one of the main objectives of the National Bump Hip Hop and R&B Awards to promote and provide mainstream Australia with an understanding of Urban Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander history and culture. To provide the Indigenous Hip Hop and R& B community of Sydney and Australia the opportunity to demonstrate to Mainstream Australia that we are here. Through the establishment of the National Bump Hip Hop and R&B Awards encouraging a more active life for younger Aboriginal children through music and dance and also provide the younger Generation with Aboriginal role models and the music leaders of tomorrow that they can relate to.

 

Why Have a National Awards Acknowledging Indigenous Hip Hop & RnB?
Why you say???
 

FOR THE RETAINMENT OF OUR CULTURE AND LANGUAGES

 

Hip Hop & RnB has been a vehicle for Indigenous people to express themselves, just like other black cultures across the world.
 

In a sense, Indigenous Australian Hip Hop & RnB can be understood as a musical conversation between Indigenous Australian people, the wider Australian nation and the world. Hip hop & RnB is a powerful vehicle for the expression of identity and resistance in contemporary Aboriginal popular music.
 

Hip Hop & RnB to many Indigneous Artists has political significance. It creates an avenue, which enables Aboriginal Australians to be seen and most importantly heard in this modern society and world, to be politically present, in a way which has in the past been denied to us by the conditions imposed by the colonisation of our people.
 

Hip Hop & RnB functions as a vehicle for the performance of Aboriginal culture. Aboriginal culture is orally and visually  passed down, our traditions, our values and our lores are taught through, song, dance and music, and one of the main principal elements of Hip Hop & RnB in this respect, is its orality, its emphasis on storytelling. So its not surprising that our people would strongly identify with Hip Hop &  Rnb. There isn’t one Aboriginal kid today who doesn’t like these genres because it’s that oral communication that we’re so used to over the thousands and thousands of years. 
 

This is why we have created the National Indigenous Hip Hop & RnB BUMP Music Awards, to retain our Culture and Languages, to acknowledge both the pioneers of the Indigenous Hip hop & RnB movement and the up and coming new artists and groups and Indigenous People in all fields of the Music Industry who are assisting our people get into main stream and helping our people's voices and our talent be seen and heard.

The Evolution of Indigenous Hip Hop & RnB has now become a REVOLUTION!

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Our Fourth Community Program-2018

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We started our fourth Community Program or Platform called I Love NAIDOC to establish the celebration of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Culture through celebrating NAIDOC week being held in major cities and small towns every year in Australia. It is the main objective of I Love NAIDOC  to promote and provide mainstream Australia with an understanding of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander history, culture and Languages, involving all ages from 5 years to 100 years old and give a platform to Blackfulla Artists.

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