Artist · chart history
Def Fx
Band Australia Active 1990–1997
Def Fx formed in 1990 in Australia and was active until 1997. Def Fx has 4 chart appearances on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1991–1996. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Psychoactive Summer”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #51. The station that charted Def Fx most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1995.
Def FX were the Australian band that tried to fit the rave and the mosh pit into the same room. Keyboardist Sean Lowry started them in 1990, Fiona Horne took the lead vocals and Martyn Basha played bass, and the sound they cooked up was electronic rock with dance-floor pulse, grunge weight and a pop sense of a hook. In America they went out as Definition FX so nobody would mix them up with other similarly named acts.
The Water EP gave them "Surfers of the Mind" in 1991, and the Post Moronic EP followed in 1994 with the sneering "Masses Like Asses". Majick, in 1996, brought "Psychoactive Summer" and "I'll be your Majick", as trippy as those titles suggest. Along the way they recorded for Phantom Records and MCA Records and put out four albums between 1992 and 1996, before calling it a day in April 1997. Basha and Horne dusted the name off for tours in 2012 and 2013.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Def Fx on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Psychoactive Summer | 1 | #51 | – | 1995 | |
| 2 | I'll be your Majick | 1 | #61 | – | 1996 | |
| 3 | Surfers of the Mind | 1 | #80 | – | – | |
| 4 | Masses Like Asses | 1 | #95 | – | 1994 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 61 | I'll be your Majick | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996 |
| 1995 | 51 | Psychoactive Summer | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1995 |
| 1994 | 95 | Masses Like Asses | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994 |
| 1991 | 80 | Surfers of the Mind | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1991) |
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