Only just 22, Swedish wunderkind Avicii has already enjoyed a career’s worth of highlights. A producer first and foremost, he’s very quickly become accustomed to headline DJ status. 2011 has been a blur of high-charting releases and constant touring, including mainstage slots at some of the world’s biggest dance festivals: Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra Miami and Tomorrowland among them. For a sense of the ecstatic atmosphere he incited across the Northern summer, look no further than the videos at the tail of this article from his At Night series.

In a matter of months, Avicii will be doing his thing at the kick-off of our festival season, joining fellow A-listers Armin van Buuren, Kaskade, Afrojack and Benny Benassi on the Stereosonic tour.

“It feels like I’m not [in Australia] enough,” he enthuses from Sweden, in a rare moment between transit. “The minute they announced the line up I’ve been getting so much feedback on Facebook, so I’m super-excited to get back. I know almost half of the DJs on the line-up, so I’m really looking forward just to having everyone over there.”

Avicii admits that when it comes to DJing, he’s had to learn on the job. “I would say really, before I got into DJing I was a producer first, so I would say the DJing aspect of it is the thing that I feel that I’ve really learned,” he says.

By now, though, he’s a seasoned pro (“almost five shows a week” couldn’t hurt) with an arsenal of crowd-pleasers in his repertoire. “It feels like all the genre lines are fading a little bit,” he continues. “House and trance are morphing together, it feels like pop and house are morphing together. Hip hop is morphing – some might say back – into house as well. It feels like it is becoming one big genre.”

The distinctive energy of a festival is where the DJ thrives, and Avicii’s set from Ultra back in March is streaming now on ITM-FM’s Stereosonic Radio. Crammed with his originals, remixes and custom tweaks, it leaves no doubt of the Swede’s festival-ruling potential.

> STEREOSONIC RADIO #3 – AVICII