In a country where dance music has boomed, DJs are viral on TikTok, DJs are mixing hard and fast, everyone is looking for a viral ID, DJing is a cultural phenomenon, the biggest festivals in Australia are dance music festivals, what is it actually like to be a DJ in 2026?

To help answer the question is FUKHED, an Eora based selector who has been cutting her teeth in dance music for nearly 10 years. Now foraying into producing, the techno aficionado sits down to talk the state of dance music in Australia and beyond, the external and internal pressures of being an artist in an extremely digital age and ways to break down the inherently competitive nature of Australia's dance music scene.