Libby Clark earned her stripes in the digital world launching inthemix.com.au with co-founders Andre Lackmann and Neil Ackland during the throes of the tech wreck back in 1999. While looking back over the skeletons of many failed youth portals from that era it may have seemed a foolhardy idea, today Sound Alliance is Australia’s largest independent online publisher.

By founding an online community based around a unique mix of editorial and user-generated content, Sound Alliance found itself ahead of the game, with Inthemix.com.au growing into Australia’s No1 music site, succeeding in a competitive landscape by focussing on its community.

Following the runaway success of the inthemix brand, the team added FasterLouder, Same Same and Mess + Noise to the Sound Alliance family. Managing a dialogue with over a million fans each month may seem daunting to many organisations, but Sound Alliance has always considered its audience as a key stakeholder.

Libby sees the digital landscape as one of greatest opportunities for the promotion and development of artists. Her advice to the ultimate winner of the She Can DJ search: “for lasting success, the winner will need to truly embrace their fans online; looking beyond the standard fare of likes and follows to stand out as an artist who deserves the respect and admiration of their fans.”

For more information please visit: The Sound Alliance

Tim Hardaker's relationship with music is a sordid tale that stems back to school days spent behind the bike shed reading dog-eared copies of Rolling Stone rather than smoking cigarettes. A dud at sport and useless when it came to maths and science, when Tim had his first article published in street press at the age of 15 he made the obvious choice and set about making a career in media. A few years (and untold amounts of blagging) later, Tim has found himself in the position of Partnerships Director at Sound Alliance, Australia's largest music and entertainment web publisher with over 1 million Australians each month visiting their network of sites, including inthemix, FasterLouder, Last.fm, Pitchfork, Hype Machine and more.

With over 20 years in the music industry Gabby Colombi is a highly respected pioneering female figure in the Australia dance music scene. An active participant in club music Gabby heads up Global PR Pool - Australia’s premier dance music promotions company and sits on the board of ARIA Club Chart Committee. What has traditionally been a male dominated industry, Gabby was one of the first ladies of dance music, working all areas of the industry from Retail, Club Promoter, Community Radio DJ, Booking Agent, Artist Manager, Dance Music Journalist as well as A&R and label manager (responsible for signing multiple gold record selling release in her time at Colossal and Global Recordings).

Dance music has been her passion for the past 20 years and even after all that time, you will still find her at the bar in a club near you.

Bart has been active in the music industry for over 20 years now. Starting at EMI Belgium in promotions, moving into marketing and A&R to then Virgin UK where he worked in international marketing. Extensively traveled and having worked with the likes of Spice Girls, Massive Attack and Chemical Brothers amongst many others, Bart then moved to Switzerland and then Holland to run the EMI offices there where Bart currently holds the position of Executive Vice President Marketing Europe and Rest Of World for EMI. A part from not being home a lot it means overseeing the global marketing campaign for David Guetta and the European campaigns of other top level dance music artists on EMI's roster like Swedish House Mafia, Deadmau5, Medina...

Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands the land of Tiesto and Armin, Afrojack, Chuckie, Ferry Corsten, Sydney Samson, Fedde Le Grand, Bart cannot escape dance music and club culture in Holland. Every time he flies from Amsterdam, there is a DJ sitting next to him, jetting off to spread the love and the beats somewhere in the world.

Bart has been active in the music industry for over 20 years now. Starting at EMI Belgium in promotions, moving into marketing and A&R to then Virgin UK where he worked in international marketing. Extensively traveled and having worked with the likes of Spice Girls, Massive Attack and Chemical Brothers amongst many others, Bart then moved to Switzerland and then Holland to run the EMI offices there where Bart currently holds the position of Executive Vice President Marketing Europe and Rest Of World for EMI. A part from not being home a lot it means overseeing the global marketing campaign for David Guetta and the European campaigns of other top level dance music artists on EMI's roster like Swedish House Mafia, Deadmau5, Medina...

Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands the land of Tiesto and Armin, Afrojack, Chuckie, Ferry Corsten, Sydney Samson, Fedde Le Grand, Bart cannot escape dance music and club culture in Holland. Every time he flies from Amsterdam, there is a DJ sitting next to him, jetting off to spread the love and the beats somewhere in the world.

As electronic music continues to explode worldwide SHE Can DJ is proactively investing time and resources in the development female talent. Given our predominantly electronic roster Archery Club is chuffed to be involved and we we're hugely excited about being part of discovering THE next SheJ

Awesome is my middle name.

I'm the Managing Director of Archery Club, a talent agency. We represent brilliant artists whom we're passionate about.

Prior I worked at Jam Music, overseeing the day-to-day management and booking of the Jam Agency Roster in addition to being closely involved in the international & local programming of the national Good Vibrations Festival. Between 2003 2004 I worked as a Promotions Assistant at the renowned Fabric Nightclub in London, before joining Ministry of Sounds UK based, International Touring Division in 2004 where i was responsible for staging MoS branded events worldwide (including Ibiza, Russia, Philippines, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy). In late 2005 I returned to Australia to join Jam Music as a Tour Promoter, before moving into the Jam Agency in July 2007, departing in late 2009 to start Archery Club in partnership with The Staple Group.

DJ KC started his DJ career shortly after the breakdancing era in the late 80's. He started as a mobile jock and was known for playing mainly Funk. He broke into the club circuit in 1990, starting off in Sydney's renown clubs such as Kinselas, The Dome, and Ziguratt. Being a DJ/ Producer for acts such as Bad Reputation, E.S.P, and Lill Harris who were breaking Hip Hop to the Australian market at the time, he was constantly on stage performing trick sets.

He was asked to do a 4 Deck trick show at a rave recovery club called sundayz at the Pavillion, and after seeing the enormous response, promoters realised that Turntable tricks and scratching was not only for Hip Hop and soon later KC found himself playing at various raves supporting acts such as Ultrasonic, The Dream Team, DJ Slipmatt, and many more. His passion for performing tricks lead him onto winning the Australian DMC Championships in 92,93 and 96, with a 5th placing in the world when he performed with 4 turntables at the "Ministry of Sound" U.K and went up against the likes of Q Bert, Mix Master Mike, Crazy B, Noise, and Rectangle. That same year KC was also awarded "Best Creativity in Mixing" at Australia's first R&B Awards hosted by Mike Scott of "Ten Wedge".

KC retired from battles in 1996 but kept on rocking all major clubs and parties across Australia with mind blowing club sets that always left the crowd in awe. Being a lover of all music and genres he was able to play all styles from underground hip hop jams to club house and major raves. However KC never lost his grass roots and kept a funky soul flavor to all the different genres that he played.

KC was also well known for his 4 deck demos during this period and in 1995 he was approached by a rep from DENON to launch their new mixer. He did not know it at the time but he became the 1st Australian DJ to be officially sponsored by a corporation DENON (1995), Technics (1996), Intimidation (1997) and Vestax in (1999). DJ KC was also the first DJ to showcase the art at corporate tradeshows like ENTECH EXPO in 1997 and found himself in demand from all major companies that wanted to push their products.

He did many national tours for these companies and promoted their products in various clubs in each state. He was featured with a tutorial CD Insert in the cover of Australia's highly acclaimed magazine for music technology, "Next Music".

He also started his own weekly column called "Hot Stuff" in the popular street press "3d world" as editor and reviewer of latest DJ equipment. He contributed his work to other urban street mags "On the Street Magazine" and "Request Mag". In radio he did a weekly show "Turntablistics" to dedicate pioneering DJs that put scratching on wax with DJ Mark Walton on "Radio Dex". On TV he has appeared and showcased on BBC UK's "Club Choice", Channel V, Arena, "Australia Uncovered" (Sky U.K), and Ground Zero (SBS).

KC has played alongside pioneers like Jam Master Jay (Run DMC), Kool Herc (Founder of Hip Hop), Ca$h Money, 3 X World Champ DJ Craze and A-Trak to name a few. As a party rocker that could play to any crowd, KC is in high demand in all genres of music in diverse clubs and festivals across Australia which has kept him extremely busy throughout the 20 years of his DJ Career. He now focuses on teaching the art of DJing to upcoming DJs and appears as special guest at parties across Australia and Melbourne where he now resides.

Web ref and bio: www.djsunited.com.au/kc & www.myspace.com/dj_kc

Ed Colman is one of Australia’s widest reaching DJs with his enviable position as host of ‘Party People’, the dance music show aired on Australia’s Southern Cross Austereo network. Party People reaches over 54 stations nationwide and 600,000 listeners weekly. Ed shares a high profile on air alongside Australia’s number one female DJ, Havana Brown and international celebrity, DJ and presenter Ruby Rose.

Ed has supported Flo Rida on his recent Australian tour as well as local artists including Zoe Badwi, Sneaky Sound System and Marvin Priest. He was chosen by Pioneer to launch the CDJ 2000 in Australia.

From the age of 16 Ed worked as an intern in London’s recording studios learning his trade from some of the UK's best sound engineers and producers. After working huge shifts in the studio, he would head out to DJ at London’s clubs and parties each weekend.

By the time he was 17, Ed was snapped up by world famous DJ, and music producer ‘Jazzie B’ of ‘Soul II Soul’. Whilst working for Jazzie he engineered sessions for some of the world’s biggest producers and some of the UK’s most successful recording artists.

Ed Colman was the official DJ for the ACRA’s (Australian Commercial Radio Awards) in 2010, and the official DJ for Take 40’s Stars Of Summer TV show in 2011, shot at a 20 million dollar mansion on Sydney harbor. This event was screened multiple times on channel GO and MTV.

Ed has an extensive production back catalogue and a recent collaboration with Carl Cox, topped the Beatport techno charts for no less than 10 weeks.

Ed has built a solid reputation as one of Australia’s hottest DJs, touring nationally and mixing the Wild Summer compilations for 2011 and 2012, which have debuted at number 5 on the ARIA charts and number 2 on the iTunes album charts. He has played extensively throughout clubs in Australia and at festivals.

His flair on the decks has people clambering for him to spice things up at their big events, providing the soundtrack for launch parties including Slide for FOX 8 and THE NEW MOTION PARTY powered by the Hyundai Accent staring Aloe Blacc.

Ed Colman has become the sound of the nations airwaves every Friday & Saturday night.

Emma Hughes is the National Marketing Officer for SAE Institute, one of Australia's leading creative media colleges. Since graduating from university in 2008 with a degree in audio production, Emma has been closely involved with the film and audio industry working on the sound production and post-production for and number of short and feature length films, as well as embarking on a career as a singer/songwriter.

Through her work managing the marketing department at SAE Institute, Emma has been responsible for developing strategic relations with key industry such as EMI Music, Studios 301, Laneway Music Festival, Inside Film, as well as coordinating exclusive events and master classes with film and audio professionals, and presenting seminars to a range of international agents, industry and fellow marketing managers.

Sleep When You're Dead! Spend a day in the life of Grant Smillie and you will find out that he lives and breathes Electronic Music and sleep well it's over-rated! In the business of music there are not many that can compete with his CV as he covers all formats from TV, Radio, Production, Agency and Management.

Grant is best known as one of Australia's household names DJ's and one of our most in demand exports internationally with his electronic outfit TV ROCK. With partner in crime Ivan Gough, the TV ROCK duo have collected 2 ARIA awards and they still hold the record for the longest time in the Australian charts in the top 10 ever! TV ROCK has amassed twelve #1 positions on the ARIA club charts and 2 UK club chart #1's as well as a UK top 20 for their 2009/10 hit 'In The Air'.

Grant has been the host of Australi's premiere dance music show 'Novanation' on the Nova network nationally for the past 5 years and also hosts the Neon Essential 10 on the Nova digital platform. In addition to his radio commitments, Grant recently joined the Channel [V] team as a weekly presenter on Club [V] reporting on all things dance related!

Grant's frequent flyer points are the envy of most with over 200 flights last year testament to his hectic schedule as a DJ, Grant runs the record label Neon who dominated the charts in 2009 spending an impressive 23 weeks at the #1 spot in the ARIA club charts. 2010 has started off equally impressively with 4 of their singles hitting the #1 spot on the charts including the golden girl of Australian club music Zoe Badwi whom he also manages. Other accolades and notable mentions for Grant include:
He was the GQ DJ of the year in 2008
Has been nominated twice for the Cleo Bachelor of the year
Is an international Pioneer Pro DJ ambassador
Has played private soiree's for Prince, KISS, and Ferrari
Was the pre-game entertainment at the AFL Grand Final with Jet
Plus performed at the MTV Music Awards with Fergie and Good Charlotte to an audience in the tens of millions!
Owns and runs 360 agency booking artists such as Alex Dimitriades, Ruby Rose, Fuzzy,Denzal Park, Zoe Badwi, Andy Murphy and many more!

Renowned and respected music television presenter, Jane Gazzo travelled, worked and rocked around the world before coming home in 2007 to fulfil her destiny as Channel [V]'s rock chick [V]J. One of this country's most notable voices on music and popular culture, she is well-loved by both viewers and musicians.

With her finger firmly on the pulse of what's happening in the world of music and popular culture, Jane is dedicated to delivering insightful, current and entertaining news and opinions. Dynamic and gutsy, Jane's no fear approach to interviews, coupled with her extensive knowledge and experience has allowed her to forge an extremely successful career in the media..

Jane's extraordinary experience as a broadcaster and pop culture expert have all played a part in solidifying her in her ultimate role as a super [V]J on Channel [V]. Throughout the three and a half years Jane has been a part of the Channel [V] team, she has worked on many of the channel's flagship shows. She has also toured the country numerous times to present from some of Australia's biggest music events including Big Day Out, Homebake, Splendour in the Grass, and the ARIA Awards, as well as presented three seasons of B430, Channel [V]'s youth lifestyle show. Season One covered global festivals and Jane travelled to the Isle of Wight in the UK and Australia's Fall Festival in Lorne, Victoria. In Season 2, Jane went in search of some of the best adventure experience destinations. She headed to Germany for the world's biggest beer festival, Oktoberfest, then she hit the beaches of Thailand for the infamous Full Moon Party.Season 3, premiering March 2011, covers working holidays around the world and Jane heads to Miami to get a taste of like working as a DJ there, then closer to home hits Cairns to experience reef working..

Jane has also co-hosted a number of LIVE broadcasts from the Big Day Out festival and in 2009 co-hosted Channel [V]'s massive 10.5 hour live broadcast Sound Relief from the Melbourne benefit concert, and before that coverage of 2007's Live Earth. Throughout her illustrious career she has interviewed some of the biggest names in music including Mark Ronson, Arctic Monkeys, Ke$ha, The Presets, Chemical Brothers, Queens of the Stone Age, Green Day, Good Charlotte, Slayer, Vampire Weekend and The Ting Tings..

Melbourne-born and bred, Jane spent the first part of this century over in the UK working for London's BBC radio, as well as stints at XFM and Capital FM. She also hosted Super Request on Triple J and the ABC's cult morning program Recovery. On top of television presenting, Jane is also a talented writer, DJ and a musician of some note, having once fronted a rock band. She is a regular guest DJ at Sydney's Purple Sneakers Club.

Jane Gazzo's dynamic approach to television presenting, as well as her extensive knowledge and passion for music have established her as a leading music commentator on Australian television and the wider media..

Every Saturday at 10.30am, Jane Gazzo brings you Channel [V]'s unique view on on the event's of the week as she co-hosts the LIVE pop culture show The Riff.

Jane has worked professionally as a specialised manager for dance music and hip hop music artists since 2000. Her ?rst management client was a young DJ called Kid Kenobi who, whilst under Jane's management was recognised nationally via many awards and accolades including Australian DJ of the Year in 2002 and 2003 as well as Remix of the Year in 2003 at the Australian Dance Music Awards, InTheMix #1 DJ in the Australian top 50 DJ people for three years running from 2003 - 2005, and an ARIA Nomination for Best Dance Release in 2007. Further to these awards Kid Kenobi also released eight mix compilations with Ministry of Sound which sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Australia and New Zealand, and his debut single was licensed to over twenty-?ve compilations with respected dance music labels nationally and internationally. Beyond his domestic success, Kid Kenobi also toured internationally from 2004 until 2009 to over ?ve continents and over ?fteen countries playing a number of the world's most reputed clubs and festivals including Glade Festival, T In The Park and Fabric to name a few.

Today Jane manages Sampology, who's currently garnering much attention nationally and internationally for his AVDJ live shows, which he recently showcased to audiences in New York, LA and Austin, Texas. In the two years since Jane has managed Sampology, he's toured with the country's biggest music festivals including Big Day Out, Parklife, Good Vibrations, played sold out seasons at some of the world's biggest theatre venues and arts festivals including The New Victory Theatre on Broadway, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Udderbelly London and has been personally invited to perform at some of the world's most respected music events including Big Chill Festival UK, SXSW Texas and the Berlin Music Festival. Sampology's debut EP signed to Finnish label Top Billin' is scheduled for release in late April 2011.

Jane also manages Jono Fernandez who's big room house productions consistently achieve strong chart positions on the ARIA Club Chart including a number of top 10 positions in the past two years. After a touring hiatus for the past twelve months buried in his Sydney studio, Jono Fernandez is about to release a number of massive originals and remixes over the next six months starting with his huge club tune "Hear Me" out on One Love in April 2011.

Beyond her work as an artist manager, Jane's background in advertising and media has seen her work on many music campaign and brand experiences for a number of corporate clients including Nokia Asia Paci?c, Olympus and ASICS Oceania. This background experience brings invaluable bene?ts today within the area of artist endorsement, sponsorship and branded experiences integrated with her artist roster. Jane is also a board member of the Music Manager's Forum Australia and is a committee member of the ARIA Club Chart Committee.

I'm very excited about the potential the She Can DJ project has both for EMI, and the scene in general, and I'm looking forward to getting involved and offering a UK / European perspective where needed. Australia has a good track record in developing new talent that can make a mark on world stage, and this project will surely give someone the opportunity to do just that, in what is an increasingly competitive market. Good luck!

Jason has been Director of EMI owned / world renowned dance label, Positiva, since 2001, having worked with the label since 1998. His first major signing was 'Groovejet' by Spiller, and was responsible for putting together the vocal version with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, which was a global hit in the summer of 2000 - and the first ever track to be played on an iPod !

Throughout the Noughties, Jason signed and worked with many of the world's leading DJ's and producers , including Deep Dish, Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, The Shapeshifters and Axwell. In 2008, Jason was instrumental in bringing David Guetta into the Positiva fold for his releases in the UK, and has played a key role in his huge success since.

In 2009, Positiva merged with the larger Virgin Records team, and enabled Jason to work across both labels. So whilst continuing to sign the hottest new talent to Positiva (including NERVO and Alex Metric) , he has overseen the development of the deadmau5 project and was responsible for signing Swedish House Mafia to Virgin.

The 27 year old floor-filling DJ, Nova radio host, Pioneer Pro DJ Ambassador now joins forces with EMI in the 'She can DJ' Program. A regular to the international circuit whether it be playing for Ministry of Sound in Mykonos, or at her Bali residency she is no stranger to the pressure of being a girl in this male dominated industry.

A second generation DJ, McLeod was born with music and performance in her blood. Her dad spent much of the '70s spinning tunes, so it was no surprise his daughter sought sonic inspiration from a young age.

McLeod's currently hosts the 12-4pm weekday slot on Melbourne's Nova 100 and is regularly sent to cover the world's biggest events. Whether it be the Sensation parties in Amsterdam or sitting down with Beyonce in New York City.

With so many projects on the go and an endless amount of passion for music McLeod is only looking for more ways to sink her teeth deeper into this fulfilling and rewarding industry.

Mark's passion is music - so much so it's likely to be found in his DNA one day. He has worked in music since 1989, in a number of roles from running a record store to working in various roles at labels including Sony and BMG - working with many Australian and International artists and managers. A clubber from the age of 16, Mark was also a key label figure in the evolution of the ARIA Club Chart.

By the time he turned 30 he was Head of Capitol Records at EMI Australia working with artists such as Silverchair, Coldplay, Jet, Keith Urban, Paul Mac, Robbie Williams, The Living End, Kasey Chambers, John Williamson, The Finn Brothers and Gorillaz. In 2005, he was promoted to Director, Global Marketing for EMI based in London. In July 2006, Mark went on to be Director of EMI UK frontline label Angel Music Group/Charisma.

In August 2008, he returned to Australia as Chairman and Senior Vice President of Marketing for EMI Australasia, based in Sydney. In December 2009 he was the only music executive to be named in Media Week's Top 30 Most Influential Media People's list. Under his 2 year tenure EMI has scored consecutive ARIA Albums Of The Year for Empire Of The Sun and for Angus & Julia Stone.

He recently appointed award-winning Producer Scott Horscroft to head up the company's A & R division and after 22 years in North Sydney, moved the company's H.Q. to the creative hub of Surry Hills. He never wants to become cynical or jaded, and could do with 30 hours in the day instead of the average 24

Marnie Dibden Cate is the Founder and Managing Director of Pagesdigital.com. Launched eight years ago the company is home to well respected fashion and music brands, pages and Groupie. Pagesdigital has paved the way in Australia for digital media, content development and brand integration growing rapidly since inception.

Marnie was instrumental in the recently launched lifestyle site YouOnlyLiveOnce.com.au alongside partners Dan Single, Angus McDonald and Maurice Terzini. The Pagesdigital network represents these sites alongside Ministryofsound.com.au, and fashion sitefrockwriter.com speaking to an audience of 200 000 monthly.

Mish Stampfli has worked in the music industry for over ten years with record labels such as EMI Music Australia and Ministry of Sound. Founding Groupie Magazine in 2006 which is an integral part of the Pagesdigital publishing house, after pinpointing a gap in the digital music landscape. Groupie creates exclusive music content with the intent aim of maintaining the brand as a respected and knowledgeable voice in the music community.

Groupie Magazine features some of Australia's best music writers spanning genre's, working with artist tours and national festivals throughout the year, keeping readers up to date with global daily music news, and maintaining its position as the online destination for the digital generation.

Hailing from Sydney, Australia and raised by music-loving but strict Turkish parents, Murat's early experience of dance music was strictly from the dancefloor. This club habit soon turned in to an addiction of buying 12 inch records which has now become an extensive vinyl library. Since then Murat has come a long way in establishing his career on the underground music scene globally, with regular appearances at some of the world's top clubs and production skills that are being sought after from many forward thinking record labels from around the world; labels like Stil Vor Talent, Drop Music and Lost My Dog.

As a DJ, Murat is steadfast with over 10 years experience always armed with fresh music. His sets are creative and unique, smoothly genre crossing between deep house, techno and disco. In the last few years, Murat has played in some of the noteworthy clubs around the world recently appearing at Watergate/Arena/Horst Kreuzberg in Berlin, Electric Pickle-Miami, the End - London and further afield at Burning Man in the USA and Sunrise Festival in Salvador, Brazil. With valuable deck time through his 5 year residency at Sydney institution SPICE after hour club, his sets cater for the chin strokers and the partygoers alike with an intelligent blend of music always changing and always unique.

In his own words "At the end of the day, it is all about educating the crowd without boring them. Teaching people to appreciate new music whilst still getting them to dance themselves to oblivion".

Since 2008, Murat Kilic has had a steady schedule of music being released on a variety of labels across the Tech House, Deep House and Techno genres. Starting with a succession of remixes on Tech House imprint BEEF Records in 2008, Murat followed these up with an EP for Oliver Koletzki's Berlin based Stil Vor Talent which helped establish his reputation as someone to watch. Since then Murat has had a follow up release on Stil Vor Talent and a string of remixes racking up plays and support from the likes of Joris Voorn, Jimpster, Nick Warren, Inland Knights and M.A.N.D.Y. Murat's productions are well-defined and notable with releases on labels like Stil Vor Talent, BEEF, Stereo Seven, Lost My Dog, Kaato, Subsonic, Long Distance and Tribal Vision. Two of Murat's remixes in 2010 went as high as no.16 and no.22 on the Beatport Deep House charts in August 2010 and December 2010.

Murat spends a lot of his time travelling across countires and continents doing something he genuinely loves. producing, playing and presenting electronic music in as many formats, clubs and festivals as humanly possible. He maintains a healthy work schedule in his home city Sydney, where he runs the successful SPICE after hour club and Reckless Republic - touring agency, event promoter and record label. In other words he is a workaholic but a happy one!

Links:

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/muratkilic
Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/muratkilic

Over the last fifteen years Nicole Fossati has somehow maintained consistent involvement in the music and media industries. What start in the mid nineties as a way to avoid getting a real job, Fossati started writing for the country's only dance music mag, 3D World. Through another strange series of events she ended up editing the magazine, guesting on community television and radio shows and eventually jumping ship to join Sony Music in dance music marketing.

That got old real quick and sodden, she climbed back into the media boat by resuming her writing and talking and she soon landed the coveted position as the female host on SBS' groundbreaking electronic music program Alchemy. She was also the music editor and the host of the sister radio program, but for now lets just keep it lineal and say she pretty much stepped into Triple J from here.

Hosting the J's Drive show did come after a brief stint at EMI, which was rad, some panel mediation and conference speaking roles on electronic music, more features and op ed writing, and a year long guest spot on Adam & Wil's breakfast show, but it seemed to happen so fast. She had her on specialist late night program over the weekends on the J's called The Club where for once in her life, she mostly let the music do the talking.

Nic left the ABC to work with the DC brand in the capacity of events and sponsorship manager to celebrities and musicians, but in reality it was a pretty big fat excuse to go snowboarding whenever and where ever she wanted, and write about it.

With her pipe dreams behind her it was a side step into and out of Austereo, after which she resumed the more cerebral vexations of editing Australia's leading music industry business magazine, The Music Network, and corresponding consumer website of the same name.com . She comes to us now from somewhere in that compelling-content-creation zone.

I am very excited and honoured to be chosen to participate in this project. I have always believed that the quality of the DJ/Producer talent is Australia unsurpassed (call me biased if you like!!) All the ladies in the Australian industry I have had the pleasure of working alongside or hearing have always impressed me with their talent. In such a competitive industry I think it is a great that EMI is supporting new Australian talent and giving them an opportunity to be heard and recognised at an international level...Im with this all the way...bring on the next big thing Australia!!!

Sarah Main. an in-demand DJ, technically gifted producer and for over 10 years Pacha Ibiza's top resident DJ. Whichever way you put it, this is one musical talent with a hot career continually on the rise. Having played to audiences in over 30 countries it is clear that Sydney born Sarah - Australia's number one DJ export - is as much at home behind the decks as she is in her adopted island of Ibiza.

Whether a small intimate venue, a major clubbing institution (like her long-term home base Pacha Ibiza) or a big stage on the festival circuit, Sarah interacts with the crowd in just the right way proving she was literally born to be a DJ. She has a strong, unwavering passion for house music which shows in an illustrious career that has spanned 17 years.

Beginning in Australia she rose to the top of the electronic music scene before relocating to Ibiza in 2001 to take up her 10 year residency at one of the worlds most famous clubs, Pacha.

In that time she has mixed countless Pacha compilations alongside industry heavyweights such as Pete tong and Goldfish. She is also a spokesperson for Pioneer, featuring in advertising campaigns, was selected by Ministry Of Sound TV to present the 'How To DJ Series', hosted her own three hour music show on Flaunt TV, and also hosts an Ibiza TV show for Yamabooki TV. Nominated twice at the Ibiza DJ awards, in 2006 Sarah won the highly coveted title, 'Best Ibiza DJ'. Her 'Mainroom' radio show is heard around the world on countless FM stations and is also the first dance show to be commissioned by Emirates airlines for their inflight entertainment.

Sarah believes there are no limits to what she can achieve and where her career can take her. With an action-packed year ahead with even more studio time, a busy touring schedule, and a new TV show in the works...2011 is looking like a serious year for this DJ.

Website: http://www.sarahmain.net/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sarahmainofficial
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/sarahmain
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Sarah_Main

SARAH MCLEOD is one of Australia's most diverse and powerhouse performers and songwriters. The ARIA award winning former lead singer of The Superjesus, not only solidified her reputation as a rock artist both here and overseas, but in recent years has also gained a huge notoriety on the dancefloor working with some of the biggest DJ's and producers across the globe.

Having spent the last 3 years abroad, she based herself between London and NYC working with names including Autoerotique, Steve Aoki and Mike Posner. This is where her musical curiosity was fuelled. She kicked many goals during this time and scooped up a whole new dedicated fanbase within the realm of dance.

These achievements have now solidified herself as a legit artist internationally with DJ's, producers, radio DJ's and the buying market of that genre. Successes include two BBC Radio 1 supported UK hits with 'He Doesn't Love You', (A collaboration with Hook N Sling (Hussle / Axtone) - which was the most successful single ever on her UK dance label Renaissance and spent 40 weeks at #1 in Eastern Europe and also hit the ARIA club chart #1 - and 'White Horse' which hit UK Official Club Chart #8, spent 19 weeks in the top 20 of the US Billboard dance charts championed by her U.S label Next Plateau (Universal), was aired across US radio networks, which saw her being the ONLY Australian artist other than Kylie Minogue to achieve this.

Sarah's releases have been supported by names including Fedde Le Grand, Sander Kleinenberg, Deep Dish, Annie Nightingale, Chris Lake and TV Rock and more recently the world's largest house DJ Tiesto who has been closing his shows on his world tour with the remix of her song Double R.

Her recent 2 singles have been championed by some of Australia's best DJ's - a re-working of the Bruce Springsteen smash-hit 'Dancing In The Dark' (which spent 12 weeks in the Top 50), and the remix of her song 'Love And Honour' flew up the ARIA Club charts reaching the Top 10.

Currently the TV Rock and Nick Galea mix of Love and Honour is one of the hottest tracks in clubs right now. Be sure to catch Sarah perform this and other hits as she rips it up on her club tour all over the country.

Simon Coyle has had a BIG influence on Australia's electronic music scene over the past 20 years via hundreds of tours, events, performances and releases. Most recently, Simon Coyle, along with business partner Richie McNeill, formed Totem Industries. As well as heading up Totems touring division and booking department, within the Totem Onelove Group Simon is the co founder of both Stereosonic and Creamfields music festivals, two of the largest dance music festivals in Australia.

In his early days, Simon was involved in Australia's very first electronic DJ agency, Agent Mad and from there, went on to become head honcho (with Simon Digby) of iconic label WETMUSIK in the early 2000's. Through WETMUSIK Simon pushed the Australian techno movement globally, while touring as a DJ through Europe, Spain and Asia. The label also released a series of highly regarded compilations, many of which included Simon's own productions.

Heavily involved in promoting events, clubs and festivals since the early 90's, highlights include Halycon Knights (the first large scale multi genre electronic event to attract over 5000 people), along with Rotation techno events, WETMUSIK parties and now Stereosonic and Creamfields.

Through 20 years of tours, events, performances and releases, Simon Coyle has been a big part of influencing the extremely

Stephen's career spans over a decade starting with the London club scene during the late 90's. Kicking off with Big Beat UK the owner and operator of 4 UK nightclubs and 40 bars and restaurants, the flag ship venue being Home Nightclub at 1 Leicester Square.

In early 2000, Stephen moved to Sydney with Home and started paving his way to becoming Australia's leading gay & lesbian circuit party producer. Since he's brought some of the world's best-known DJs to his events from Dannii Minogue, Junior Vasquez, Peter Rauhofer, Tony Moran, DJ Paulo, Tracy Young, Offer Nissim, Dave Aude, Suzanne Palmer, Kristine W, Victor Calderone and many many more. This super producer lives and breaths parties and events and is constantly challenging his pre-requisite to ensure the baddest parties with the fiercest crowds.

Responsible for events such as Matinee, SuperMartXe, TOP, Homesexual, Circuit, Dayone, La Leche and many more, his company In The Dark Presents is the only full time gay production company in Australia.

More recently Stephen was asked to co-present his first music concert by the legendary Michael Chugg. Grace Jones was the artist with a nationwide tour in April 2011, In The Dark & Chugg Entertainment joined forces to produce quite the spectacle.

Website : www.inthedark.com.au

Scott has worked with artists such as Silverchair, Birds of Tokyo,The Presets, The Sleepy Jackson, The Panics, Little Red and countless others.

Acclaimed Record Producer, Studio Owner, A&R Executive and Artist Manager Scott Horscroft developed his multi-faceted career by completing an Honours degree in Visual Arts, and spending time abroad conceptualising and constructing Virtual Installations.

Having attained such diverse knowledge and hands on experience, Scott began lecturing at a variety of colleges and universities, specialising in music composition, sound design, production techniques, music technology and experimental video. He also spent considerable time on the other side of the studio wall, composing and performing complex sound pieces such as "8 Guitars".

In 2002, Scott steered his course into full-time music composition and production working as a mixer, engineer and producer. He facilitated his skills by designing and developing Big Jesus Burger, a state of the art recording studio which has quickly established a reputation as one of Australia's premier and most sought after facilities.

Scott cut his teeth in production working with the best of the best, achieving critical acclaim and ARIA Award winning success with some of Australia's most credible artists such as Silverchair, Birds of Tokyo, The Presets, The Sleepy Jackson, The Panics, Little Red and countless others.

Scott's ability to connect with artists and translate their vision into a sonic landscape has made him a first port of call. This applies to artists of any genre looking to improve and take their project to the next level, whether it is mixing slamming electro or facilitating the beauty of dream pop, Scott's approach to music production is not genre specific and is met with a combined understanding of artistic credibility and commercial success.