“I’m certainly excited about coming back to Australia, I love that country. The crowds are so up for it. They definitely like to go the distance,” Sasha says of returning for next year’s national Good Vibrations festival. “I’m working on a lot of underground DJ tracks at the moment. I’m going into the studio in October and November to prepare my set for Good Vibrations and work on some new music, so I think by the time I get to Australia I’m going to have a lot of new music to play.”

Sasha will share the Good Vibes stage with the likes of headliners Faithless, French indie outfit Phoenix and collaborative duo Nas and Damian Marley. American rapper Ludacris, English dance punk band Friendly Fires and the first lady of neo-soul, Erykah Badu, will also make the journey for the festival’s eight-year anniversary.

Sasha is no stranger to Australia. He toured as part of this year’s Big Day Out and credits the country as the perfect place to play during the UK winter. “I think we all want to perform in Australia when winter starts,” he says. “We’re all waiting for the call.”

He’s has always been one to embrace new technology, developing and pioneereering software and interfaces that have revolutionised producing and performing while maintaining constant internet contact with his fans.

“The internet has changed everything. It’s changed the way we live our lives, it’s changed the way we interact with music, it’s changed the way I interact with my friends and artists I collaborate with,” he says. “I’ve made some records with people I’ve never actually sat in the studio with. We kind of just pass things backwards and forwards and then before you know it we’re finished.”

Like all things, Sasha says you have to take the good with the bad when it comes to the internet and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

“You just have to go to one of the music forums and listen to people ranting off at three o’clock in the morning from their mother’s basement about how shit music is now and how great it used to be. There’s a lot of negative arseholes out there,” he says. “I got into a habit maybe four or five years ago of actually looking at those things and I got so depressed after that that I just realised it was something I had to let go.”

A keen football fan, Sasha doesn’t hide his disappointment when talking about the English side’s early exit from the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Controversial coach Fabio Capello received plenty of criticism for the way he handled his team, and Sasha says it’s time for the former football powerhouse to rebuild and go back to basics.

“I really don’t want to talk about it. We were an absolute disaster, an unmitigated disaster,” he says. “Thank God Italy and France were worse than us because the English team was just absolutely embarrassing. I just want them to get rid of the old players and start with a new bunch. We’ve got some really exciting young players coming through.”

Sasha leads a simple life for a man who is good mates with fellow dancefloor kings John Digweed and Charlie May.

He has worked on tracks with Depeche Mode, Madonna, Seal, UNKLE, The Chemical Brothers, BT, Thom Yorke and Orbital, and releases his own music through independent label Renaissance Records.

The 41-year-old still calls the UK home and despite touring the world year after year, longs for a bit of down time.

“I miss my kitchen and being able to cook myself some food. I miss being able to go to the market. You get very tired of room service, no matter how fancy it is,” he says.

“I like going to the butcher and getting a giant piece of meat to roast in the oven for a few hours.”

Call it Good Vibrations of the kitchen kind, if you will.

SASHA PLAYS THE GOLD COAST GOOD VIBRATIONS FESTIVAL ON FEBRUARY 19, 2011. OTHER ACTS INCLUDE FAITHLESS, PHOENIX AND LUDACRIS.