‘Everyone knows the Centrelink song’: how we learned to love – and remix – hold music

It's been called the sound of purgatory' but Opus 1 has enjoyed a new life in performance art, in a beer commercial and now on TikTok

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Triple J once played it for eight hours straight. DJs have remixed it, dancers have performed to it, and many of us, have sat, frustrated, listening to it.

Slowly the Centrelink hold music has seeped into the cultural zeitgeist and is now the backdrop for works of art and viral TikToks.

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