Cyclone Wehner, Contributor

The new generation of partygoers don’t necessarily know dance music’s history – but, then again, nor do some of the DJs

“We wanna get stuck straight into the next album, so I think this will probably be the only tour we do until early or mid next year – so, yeah, may as well get it all out now.”

"It was a lot more relaxed for me ‘cause some of the ones on the beach I was throwing, I was shitting in my pants. There was one where a quarter of a million people turned up. The police were saying to me, ‘People will die tonight.’ They said, ‘It won’t necessarily be your fault, but statistically you’ve got 250,000 drunk people on the streets – people are gonna die.’"

“You kinda spend a little bit of time underground and then you pop out again and just smash it – but the key is to keep the ball rolling.”

"There are too many new labels or producers that put three utterly generic, disposable tracks up on Beatport or iTunes, spam Facebook a few times, get upset when they sell less than 30 downloads."

Today dubstep is ubiquitous. In the UK Chase & Status are a pop – and, importantly, album – act, as are Nero and, of course, Magnetic Man

"You [Australians] always go hard – wherever I play, and wherever I go, you seem to go along with [it]. And you don’t just go along with [it] for the sake of going along. You’re riding shotgun – you’re in the car with me."

While tech-house champion Joris Voorn might not be pulling in the mega bucks of people like countryman Tiësto, he tells Cyclone his ambitions are as big, if not bigger.

Though producer Nic Fanciulli prefers the low road, he’s no slouch. He chats with Cyclone about pushing on with what he loves rather than bowing to notoriety or industry expectations.

Little Alex won a scholarship to the Durham Cathedral Choir School in North East England (its former pupils include Rowan “Mr Bean” Atkinson and Tony Blair!).

“I’m just weird, I’m just fucked up. I wish it wasn’t that way."

Californian rapper Fashawn is on the up and up, and Cyclone chats to the man about exactly what’s pushing that incline.