There is actually nothing laid back about Dutch super-producer/DJ Luke Van Scheppingen at all. He has utilised his supernatural 'windmill skills' to sit atop the sparkling podium of house music for the last 12 months as the industry's most in demand remixer, churning out big room re-works for the likes of Roger Sanchez, Steve Angello, Martin Solveig, Underworld and Tocadisco just to name a few.

Although to children of the early '90s it may seem as though he has just popped up overnight like some kind of pre-prom facial anomaly, Luke has actually been releasing successful records for over a decade beginning with his 1999 self penned release Psyched U. It wasn’t until 2002 when he unleashed the massive Rocking with the Best that he truly presented himself to the international community as one to watch and since then he has been wading through enticing offers for remixes and collaborations like a teenage girl in a room full of fluffy kittens.

“(When I get offers) I just listen to the original and see if there are elements I like and I can use. If the elements aren't there, most of the time I refuse a remix.”

His DJ name is derived from a Snoop Dogg track which highlights the influence that hip-hop had on his early on his career which then transitioned him into the world of house music. “Before I became a househead I listened and partied to a lot of hip-hop. The tipping point for me was hearing Technotronic's Pump Up The Jam which transitioned me into house music. It had that hip-hop badness combined with the party energy I was looking for. A close friend of mine introduced computer music making to me by stripping down Pump Up The Jam on his Amiga. From there I just started with house music!”

Previous to his now famous big room Swedish sound he was known for producing a much deeper style of house music; one of the many musical metamorphoses in his long career as he explains. “I had quite a few transitions in sound in my career. I started doing really housey Strictly Rhythm style stuff, gradually moving into tougher and tougher techno. Then I became really Daft Punk-ish and moved into poppy electroclashy stuff. And after came the big Swedish style sound. I do like the change, I'm bored very quickly and I always like to do something different than what I did before. I do think all the styles still hold my typical Laidback Luke touch though.”

Heading to Canberra for the Warehouse Winter Music Festival, he promises to shake the foundations of the AIS with some massive new party rockers. “I always bring the Laidback Luke Bootleg Machine. I'm still making a lot of bootlegs between tracks and remixes! I do try to bring a lot of energy to a party. I like to have a good time with the crowd when I'm playing. To me it's also about interaction; we should make a good party together!”

Laidback Luke is a part of the mind-bogglingly awesome line-up of the Winter Warehouse Music Festival on Sunday June 7 at the AIS Arena. Tickets through Ticketek (or by clicking on the Warehouse banner at the very top of the page).