A few months back we gave one lucky prospective DJ superstar – who, it turned out, were a duo, but that’s besides the point! – the chance to play the opening set at the Future Music Festival. We couldn’t have predicted the response to the comp, with almost 500 hopefuls submitting mixes for judging. We’ve decided to bring it back again, this time for the We Love Sounds winter festival in Sydney on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend!

If you fancy yourself a dab hand at the ones-and-twos and you like the idea of rubbing shoulders with bonafide legends of the dance scene, like Armin Van Buuren, Armand Van Helden, James Zabiela, Laidback Luke and Chris Lake, then get started on your mix for entry today! Your mix should be no more than 30 minutes in length, and it must be submitted before 9am, Monday May 18th. Judges will then choose the best of the bunch and place them online for public voting.

The winning DJ and one lucky friend will receive VIP tickets to We Love Sounds in Sydney on Saturday June 6th, hotel accommodation so they can live it up like a star, and most importantly the opportunity to play the opening DJ set at the festival! Entries are open to DJs playing techno, electro, house and trance. How do you submit your mix? Read the steps for entry below and make sure you follow them exactly for your submission to count.

NOT A DJ? DON’T WORRY, YOU CAN STILL WIN!

We’ll be selecting the best of the mixes for public voting and you’ll be able to tell us which one is your favourite simply by listening on ITM-FM. There’ll be three double passes to We Love Sounds up for grabs to anyone who votes, so be sure to let us know which one rocks your world when we announce finalists in a few weeks time!

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS (follow them to the letter, or your entry won’t count)

1. Record your mix of no more than 30 minutes, then save it as an mp3 file at 128kbps. No files are to exceed 30 megabytes in size.

2. Name your mix in the following style: “Real name – DJ name (if applicable) – mobile number.mp3” For example: “John Smith – DJ Johnny – 0400 000 000.mp3”

3. Head to the upload page here. Enter your name and email address, then attach your file and upload it in full.

4. Sit back and wait for the announcement of finalists!

For the full terms and conditions of inthemix’s We Love Sounds DJ Competition check out our festival page here.