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DJ Heartstring

DJ Heartstring (DJ HEARTSTRING) are a Berlin duo, Jonas and Leo, active since 2021 playing self-named Trance Dance Music: fast trance, Eurodance, techno and pop blends at roughly 136-150 BPM, known for their Boiler Room AVA 2023 debut, Teenage Dreams events, and debut album Sentimental Ultra (2026).

DJ Hildegard

DJ Hildegard, born Sylvia Rathai, is a German house and techno DJ, producer, and radio host active since 1988, known as the "Godmother of House" and a vinyl loyalist.

DJ International Records

DJ International Records is a Chicago house label founded in 1985 by Rocky Jones and Benji Espinoza, one of two labels that dominated the rise of Chicago house.

DJ Isaac

DJ Isaac is the stage name of Roel Schutrups, a Dutch DJ and producer who broke through in 1990s gabber and hardcore and helped found hardstyle.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

DJ Jazzy Jeff (Jeffrey Allen Townes, born 1965) is a Philadelphia DJ, turntablist, and producer; half of DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince with Will Smith, developer of the Transformer and chirp scratches, founder of A Touch of Jazz.

DJ Kent

DJ Kent is the stage name of Khensani Mabaso, a Soweto-born South African house DJ, producer, and songwriter who won multiple South African Music Awards and founded the label 88 Productions.

DJ Khaled

DJ Khaled (Khaled Mohamed Khaled, b. 1975, New Orleans) is an American DJ, producer, and We the Best label head; Miami radio and Terror Squad DJ with four Billboard 200 number-one albums and the Hot 100 chart-topper "I'm the One."

DJ Khaled discography

DJ Khaled discography: 13 studio albums 2006-2022, four Billboard 200 number ones (Major Key, Grateful, Khaled Khaled, God Did), Grammy-winning "Higher," and the delayed 14th album Aalam of God.

DJ Kool Herc

DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell), Jamaican-born Bronx DJ who pioneered the breakbeat Merry-Go-Round technique at the August 11, 1973 party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, widely credited as the founding father of hip-hop; 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

DJ Krust

DJ Krust, born Kirk George Thompson, is a Bristol drum and bass producer and DJ who co-founded Full Cycle Records with Roni Size and recorded the 1997 anthem "Warhead".

DJ Lag and OKZharp

DJ Lag and OKZharp are a duo of the Durban gqom producer DJ Lag and London-based South African producer OKZharp, who released the Steam Rooms EP on Hyperdub in 2019.

DJ Lethal

DJ Lethal (Leor Dimant), Latvian-American turntablist and producer born in Riga, member of House of Pain and Limp Bizkit (joined 1996); known for turntables through guitar amps and a 2012 departure and return.

DJ Luian

DJ Luian (Luian Malavé Nieves, born 1990, Carolina, Puerto Rico) is a reggaeton and Latin trap producer who co-founded Hear This Music with Mambo Kingz, signed Bad Bunny in 2016, and produced "Mia" with Drake.

DJ Maphorisa

DJ Maphorisa (Themba Sonnyboy Sekowe, born 1987, Soshanguve, Pretoria) is a South African DJ and producer, also known as Madumane, co-producer of Drake's One Dance and one half of the amapiano duo Scorpion Kings with Kabza De Small.

DJ Marfox

DJ Marfox, born Marlon Silva in 1988, is a Lisbon-based DJ and producer of batida, a percussion-driven club style grown from Angolan kuduro in the city's outskirts.

DJ Marky & MC GQ

DJ Marky & MC GQ is the live billing under which Brazilian drum and bass DJ Marky (Marco Antonio da Silva) performs with English MC GQ, documented since 2007.

DJ Méndez

DJ Méndez (Leopoldo Jorge Méndez Alcayaga, born 1975) is a Chilean-Swedish DJ and singer whose debut Latino for Life sold over 300,000 copies; known for Estocolmo, Lady, and Mi Chile.

DJ Muggs

DJ Muggs (Lawrence Muggerud, born 1968) is the Queens-born, Los Angeles-based DJ and producer of Cypress Hill, founder of Soul Assassins, producer of "Jump Around" and "Check Yo Self," and GZA collaborator on Grandmasters.

DJ Ozma

DJ Ozma (DJオズマ) is a Japanese dance-pop persona played by Show Ayanocozey, leader of the rock band Kishidan, who debuted in 2006 and reached No. 4 on the Oricon chart.

DJ Patife

DJ Patife, born Wagner Borges Ribeiro de Souza in 1976 in São Paulo, is a Brazilian drum'n'bass DJ whose "Sambassim" remix was the first Brazilian drum'n'bass track on BBC radio, in 2000.

DJ Paul

DJ Paul (Paul Duane Beauregard), Memphis rapper, producer, and DJ; co-founder of Three 6 Mafia with Juicy J; 2006 Academy Award for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp"; runs Scale-A-Ton Entertainment.

DJ Pausas

DJ Pausas is a Lisbon-based kuduro and batida producer and DJ, a founding member of DJs Di Guetto, whose 2006 compilation DJs do Guetto Vol. 1 launched the Lisbon batida scene.

DJ Pierre

DJ Pierre, stage name of Nathaniel Pierre Jones, is an American house producer from Chicago, best known as a founding member of Phuture and co-creator of acid house.

DJ Pooh

DJ Pooh (Mark Jordan, born 1966, Los Angeles) is a West Coast hip-hop producer, screenwriter, and director: producer of Ice Cube's It Was a Good Day and Snoop's Tha Doggfather, co-writer of Friday (also playing Red), and writer-producer of GTA: San Andreas.

DJ Premier

DJ Premier (Christopher Edward Martin, born 1966, Houston) is an American hip-hop producer and DJ, half of Gang Starr with Guru, famed for boom-bap beats, scratch choruses, and 1990s classics for Nas, Notorious B.I.G., and Jay-Z.

DJ Premier production discography

DJ Premier (Christopher Edward Martin, born 1966, Houston) production discography: Gang Starr's seven albums, Illmatic, Ready to Die, Reasonable Doubt, Jeru the Damaja, and the 2025 Nas album Light-Years on Mass Appeal.

DJ Próvaí

DJ Próvaí, birth name JJ Ó Dochartaigh, is the Derry-born DJ and producer of Irish-language hip-hop trio Kneecap (formed 2017), a former Irish-language teacher known for his tricolour balaclava and the band's 2024 Sundance biopic.

DJ Qbert

DJ Qbert, stage name of Richard Quitevis, is a Filipino-American turntablist from San Francisco who won multiple DMC world titles in the early 1990s and pioneered the crab scratch.

DJ Quik

DJ Quik (David Marvin Blake, born 1970, Compton) is a West Coast rapper-producer whose 1991 platinum debut Quik Is the Name and gold albums through the 1990s made him a defining G-funk figure and producer for 2Pac, Jay-Z, Janet Jackson, and others.

DJ Rashad

DJ Rashad (Rashad Hanif Harden, 1979–2014) was a Chicago footwork and juke pioneer, DJ Spinn's partner in Ghettoteknitianz and Teklife, whose 2013 Hyperdub album Double Cup brought footwork worldwide.