* Festival Records and Warner Music Australia, in association with the National Indigenous Music Awards, are proud to announce this 2CD release that looks for the first time at both the thriving contemporary music scene in Indigenous Australia and the roots of that scene in the classic songs and artists of the recent past. * Divided into 'Now' and 'Before' discs, the collection poignantly opens with A.B. Original's game-changing 2017 Hottest 100 entry 'January 26' and concludes with Kev Carmody's iconic Australian classic 'From Little Things Big Things Grow'. * The 'Now' disc also includes some of Australia's biggest artists including Jessica Mauboy, Busby Marou and Dan Sultan alongside a range of tomorrow's stars including Thelma Plum, Emily Wurramara, Robbie Miller, Birdz, Ziggy, Yirrmal, Gawurra, Tia Gostelow, Kuren and Electric Fields. * The 'Before' disc features Australian icons from across the last few decades and is the first successful attempt to bring the key Indigenous rock & pop songs of modern times together in the one collection. Yothu Yindi's 'Treaty' and Archie Roach's 'Took the Children Away' kick it off; No Fixed Address' 'We Have Survived', Warumpi Band's ''Blackfella/Whitefella', Christine Anu's 'My Island Home', Coloured Stones' Black boy' and Gurrumul's 'Wiyathul' all follow, together with tracks from Ruby Hunter, Tiddas, Pigram Brtohers, Troy Cassar-Daly, Jimmy Little, Blekbla Mujik and Vic Simms and more.