Mix compilations such as Vapourised 1 and 2 as well as his production work under the name Oceanwave act as a shining light in the progressive scene here in Oz. And with his forthcoming mix that follows up Sean Quinn's mix in the balance series, Kasey's already respected reptuation looks to step up yet another level.

Kasey has generously taken some of his time to answer a few of our questions, which includes mention of one of Kasey's own milestones, his recent gig at Bedrock alongside John Digweed.

Bedrock with John Digweed, does it get any better? What was it like?

It could get a bit better; I could be doing it every week (Joking).

It doesn’t get much better than that for me in DJ terms. I was lucky enough to get booked to play on Good Friday eve, which was the biggest night of the year there. It was an amazing vibe and one of the biggest buzzes for me as a DJ to date, I was actually a little nervous at first which never happens to me usually, I’ve played in front of 20,000 people at gigs like Summadayze and never got nervous beforehand, but this time it did. The club was jammed at 10PM when I got there and I played from 10-12:30 After I dropped the first record, I felt comfortable and settled in, the vibe in there is awesome, there was about 2000 people there and its really great to know that every single person in the venue is there for one thing only, the music. I set a couple of goals for myself and one of them was to play at Bedrock, which I have done now, to do a remix for Bedrock, which I have also done and the last thing I want to do is get one of my original tracks released on Bedrock, which one day hopefully will happen.

Do you feel you need more exposure overseas to fulfill your potential?

You can never get enough exposure overseas. The world is such a big place and it doesn’t just start and end in UK, I believe it goes much further than that.
I’ve had a really good year this year internationally, I’ve played in Kuala Lumpar twice, Singapore, Hong Kong, Turkey, Holland twice and the UK and US.
I really want to get overseas as much as possible and play in as many different places as possible. That’s the only way you get the recognition that DJ’s like John/Sasha/Pappa get worldwide.

What other Australian DJs/Producers do you respect, and why?

Ivan Gough is the stand out one for me. He has written so many releases this year and done loads of remix work, which is all of worldwide standard, and he will make a big mark for himself over the next 12 months.

Apart from him I would say that Infusion are doing some quality stuff at the moment too.

Rowan Blades recently said in his monthly column on RA “After a whirlwind few years for the prog scene we are finally seeing the backlash brought on by too much dark, music-less, monotonous grooves.“ How do you feel about the current state of Progressive House?

I don’t really see it like that just quite yet.
I think the music that is coming out at the moment is very good and is keeping the so-called prog scene healthy for the time being.

There is about 3 or 4 different styles under the progressive banner at the moment, you have Deep House / House / Tribal and Deep to hard progressive.

The fact that we have all these different styles is good cause its keeping our sets a little diverse and were not cornered into playing just one of these styles under this banner, therefore keeping the interest levels up of the punters.

Vapour recordings worldwide recognition is growing at a rapid rate; it must bring an immense sense of satisfaction to see something that you started take off like it has?

Yeah, it’s been great and very encouraging for every body involved with the label. We have had a lot of support from all of the big gun DJ’s, some good licensing deals and some great compilation requests for our tracks which have appeared on comps such as Renaissance, Global Underground, Nocturnal Frequencies etc

We have the next 4 releases ready to go which start coming out early next year and I feel that these ones are the best ones that we will be releasing to date so I’m really looking forward to the New Year and hopefully that will bring a lot more success to us and all of our artists.

Due to the fact that you have played throughout the globe, what is your perception of the Australian dance scene and culture at the moment compared to that of other places?

You cant really compare anything to playing at Bedrock so I wont but in term of most gigs, The Australian Scene is very strong at the moment and is just as good as any other part of the world that I have been to recently. When we have one of our really big parties out here, they are as good as anything although I do think that we need to put more focus on our sound systems here in clubs, most of the systems I play on in AUS are not up to the standards of some of the ones I have played on overseas but apart from that, I think we are on an equal par with the rest of the world.

What can we expect from your latest project Balance 002?

Balance 002 has actually worked out to be more like 2 different sets rather than a deep disk and a hard disk, which I don’t mind. I didn’t plan it like that but that’s how it worked out, and it’s very true to what I am playing at the moment too.

The first disk it quite deep but gets going a bit toward to the end and disk 2 starts out deep as well but get a lot more harder to the end than the end of disk one.

What is instore for Kasey Taylor in the near future?

I’m currently doing a remix for Sumsonic on the new Jondi & Spesh record and then after that I am locking myself away to work on the new Ocean Wave which is going to be a double 12 with 4 new tracks. Apart from that we have new remixes of Clearwater coming out soon and after the new year I will be concentrating on DJ’ing oveseas a lot more as well.