DJ Count Effectz has been moving Sydney dancefloors with his eclectic dance/house productions since early 2008. Since then he has been releasing via labels in the US, the Netherlands and most recently founded his own Record Label Effectz Recordings. Spawned from backroom clubs his high powered sound provides a kaleidoscope journey through different (and sometimes quite bizarre) progressive sequences. This is a DJ exploring a range of different sounds, yet there is definitely a distinct style and approach to his music which many will find appealing. We caught up the the Count wanting to know more about his music.

If your music was a painting, what would it depict?
Picture a thousand different colours thrown at one canvas, no one can describe how good it is.

What have you tried to accomplish with your sound?
Something new, tasteful and most of all ‘EAR PLEASING’.

Who would you most like to headline a show with?
Definitely Afrojack or Deadmau5

What is the next step for you?
Aiming for my first tour and from what I have been producing, it is now time to show people my sound live in action.

Read more about Count Effectz and check out his many remixes on his blog. Otherwise, you can find his music on most online stores and services, including Spotify.

Digital explosion is a perfectly suited name for the dance/electronic/trance outfit hailing out of Turku, Finland. Their music is digital, and most definitely explosive! With catchy electronic hooks, rapid beats and soaring fast paced synth, the tunes will be buzzing through your head long after you have ceased listening.

The element of Digital also carries another relevance for the band, who first met their success selling MP3s on MP3.com in 2000. They hope to fuel this success and feed their loyal fanbase with their last 2 releases, one called “Electronic Revolution”, and the other a selection of their previously released material (adequtely entitled “Selection“). Find them on Spotify here.

This really is dance music at its highest quality, and one can only imagine what kind of havoc it reaps when unleashed on the dancefloor. Give them a listen on the player in the sidebar to find out what what we mean. “Summer in Belize” is simply nuts.

Since he started as a DJ 14 years ago, Alex Sayz has relentlessly devoted himself to his music. Arranging events from a young age, he is a 2000 gig veteran and has made the dance floor crucial to his own artistic survival. Now producer and co-creator (with Niklas Bergwall) of Top DJ Records, he is using his reputation as an innovative world class DJ to create and produce cutting edge music which is causing havoc on dance floors around the world. His last release “Shame on You” (feat. Lawrence Alexander) recently reached #16 on the Billboard dance airplay chart. Record Union caught up with Alex and talked to him about his current projects.

For those who don’t know about Top DJ records, can you tell us a little about what you are up to over there?
TopDJ Records is part of TopDJ Music Sweden where we also have TopDJ publishing and TopDJ management. Me and my colleague started TopDJ Music because we wanted to control our releases. We don’t want to blame anyone else if we don’t success. Since Im first of all a DJ everything we do have to be for the dancefloor. When we sign artists or when we produce music we only have to ask us a simple question: would I play this out on the nightclubs?

Your release “Shame on Me” recently achieved #16 on the Billboard dance air charts. Was this success expected?
No I couldn’t expect any Billboard chart in my dreams. Everything took off when I visited the Winter Music Conference in Miami this year. I handed out some demo CD’s and received some calls when I got back home. Some major labels and some minor. I fell for a label called Parker Recordings. Mr. Parker is well known in the business and previously released acts like Lasgo and Ian van Dahl for a bigger label. I had a feeling that Parker Recordings would work hardest for “Shame On Me” so we chose them. Luckily it paid off.

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Andrew Bright creates pumping electronic dance/progressive house compositions, guaranteed to get any club in uproar. Playing the saxophone for 10 years, he is a versatile musician with several library productions for “Selected Sound” (part of EMI Publishing Germany) under his belt.  Now, he concentrates his efforts on producing independent dance tracks and commercial dance productions – and this he does very well.

Influenced by artists such as DJ Virus, DJ Orbit and MicroQ his tracks are infectious, intelligent and highly listenable - exactly what one would expect from a seasoned dance DJ. This is the kind of music you blast at the Saturday night after party to keep it going till the wee hours – at least, that´s what we do.

Check out his debut Record Union release “Rocketfiction” on Spotify and you will know what we mean.  His releases are also available on Juno Records and most other online music stores.

Lissi Dancefloor Disaster are the third band joining us at Peace & Love this week. The Uppsala based electronic dancepunk duo of Josefin Lindh and Johan Tilli have been making infectious, danceable music since November 2007. They have been described as “punk meets sleek electronica” and create enough energy in their live shows to power a small african country. Here is the video for their latest offering featuring Henry Bowers who will be joining them on stage at P&L.

Check out more of their music over at their myspace then put on your dancing shoes and head over to the Orion stage on saturday at 1:15am to catch them. Oh, and don’t forget to come find us for a chat at the Record Union tent in the middle of the festival ground… we have snacks!