Having been part of the house music revolution in Australia, John has mixed over 17 compilations including multiple Vicious Cuts, Ministry Of Sound’s Sessions 1,2 3 and 4, One Love, The 10 Year Annual plus a huge six renditions of Ministry’s yearly “Annual”. Over one million CD’s with a John Course mix have been sold in Australia to date! With a population of just over 23 million that’s not a bad percentage! Plus he has regularly indulged in the studio over the years as half of Electro Funk Lovers, under his alias J.A.C. or sometimes simply as John Course.

As one of the founders of Vicious Recordings, the label collective that un-earthed Dirty South, Avicii, Peking Duk, Madison Avenue, Sgt Slick, Angger Dimas, The Potbelleez and Vandalism, (just to name a few), John works as passionately as ever overseeing Vicious’ ever expanding business, including the original Vicious label and imprints Vicious Bitch & Vicious Black. He is also the co-owner of Revered MGMT which specializes in finding and developing new talent.

On a DJ front John has played a multitude of events… The New Year slot at Sensation Melbourne in front of 50,000+ clubbers was one of the biggest. He also closed the huge New Years Day event Summerdays to over 20,000 people and played the main stage at both Future Music and Stereosonic on multiple occasions. A resident of super club One Love from opening night until the last record played there, he has literally DJ’d too many gigs to mention. In June 2018 John kicks off a new residency at the iconic Bond Bar, one of Melbourne’s hottest venues, and still plays regularly across Australia at clubs such as OneSixOne, Poof Doof, The Deck & The Argyle. He also embarked on two rounds of the Ministry Of Sound’s Reunion Tour, which included 30 sold-out dates nationwide throughout 2017, not to mention his now legendary 8 Hour Sets on Good Friday which again sold out in March of 2018.

From the skills learnt early in his career scratching and mixing vinyl, John’s technical prowess is still visible as he manipulates today’s digital sounds via a bank of CDJ’s. His musical taste is diverse, from a main stage big room set to a more intimate setting where he can often be found behind the decks at a dark little club dropping some wicked underground vibes or working his way through his extensive back catalogue of house and disco. No matter the style, John is best described as simply a house music DJ.

In the age of the bedroom and promoter DJ, John’s technical skills are only surpassed by his experience in programming the right music for the crowd in front of him, which is one of the basic but sometimes forgotten principles of a good DJ. It is probably that trait alone that ensures he is still in demand several decades after those two DMC titles.