Open Records is proud to announce the second full length EP from hometown hero Maddy Hughes, aka FunkForm. Featuring three original deep house tracks – Magnetics, No Rest For The Wicked and Even Elevens – the release has already attracted the attention of some of the world

Our good friends at No Qualms Records host a big shindig from March 23-24 at PK’s Jungle Village at Cape Tribulation, one of the jewels of the world heritage-listed Daintree National Park in Far North Queensland. The venue is one of the Daintree’s best known accommodation

Open Records‘ new Cairns young gun Uzi has been tearing up d-floors across the region with his staunch mix of minimal, techno and progressive in 2011. One of our favourite haunts – The Casbah Lounge – is chucking a box post-Christmas bash tonight and after smashing t

Collaborations Festival is an Australian music, arts and culture event located in the gorgeous savannah setting in the “Y” junction of the Palmer & Johnston Riverbed About 2 and 1/2 hours north of Cairns in Far North Queensland from July 22-24. In it’s fifth yea

Our good mates at No Qualms Records return with another fat Island Elements at Fitzroy Island on July 9-10. After the success of the last event two months ago (it was a wicked event), Island Elements #2 features an absolutely HUGE line-up of both Cairns and Australia’s best tale

By now, half of the Far North Queensland’s outdoor party community is already well into party mode, with the biennial Bushweek Festival underway at the picturesque Home Rule Rainforest Lodge at Rossville, near Cooktown. The 7-day extravaganza features a huge chunk of Open Record

Cairns’ biggest live music festival timeOUT Day In The Park is coming on August 13 and as with every year, they are holding a competition for local talent to get to play on the mainstage next to some of Australia’s finest talent. This year they have a DJ competition, so we

Soundcloud is one of our favourite tools here at Open Records, and with the growing number of artists and producers in North Queensland we saw it fit to start a group so everyone can start sharing the sounds. We don’t care what style the tunes are, as long as they made in North

With no Winter Solstice happening this year, there is a gaping hole left in the Cairns party and festival calendar. Disappointing as it is, Bush Week Festival is back in 2011 and plans to fill some of that void at the picturesque Home Rule Rainforest Lodge at Rossville, just outside t

With Northern Alliance II getting closer and closer by the day, Open Records and No Qualms thought it would be nice to give something back to all the crew who have supported us so far on this new and exciting journey. To celebrate Max Cooper and Tetrameth coming to town, we’re g