- Timecode
Timecode, real name Rob Playford is a UK drum and bass DJ, producer and record label owner. He is best known as founder of Moving Shadow — one of the biggest record labels in the drum and bass scene, formed in 1990 — and as engineer and producer for Goldie on his "Timeless" album of 1995. He has also released music in groups including 2 Bad Mice and Rufige Kru. - La La
Alani "La La" Vasquez (born in June 25, 1979, in Brooklyn) is an American disc jockey, television personality and MTV VJ. - John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August, 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. Known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style, John Peel was a popular and respected DJ and broadcaster. He was one of the first to play reggae and punk on British radio. - Dr. Rock Rock
Dr. Rock began his career as one of the original DJs in Lonzo's Wreckin' Cru during the early 80's. When the crew made the transition from being a mobile DJ group to recording and performing music, Rock left and relocated in Dallas, Texas. Once in Dallas, Dr. Rock scooped the local hip-hop scene and gathered Fresh K and Doc T to form the Fila Fresh Crew. Dr. Rock, who DJed alongside Dr. Dre in the days of the Wreckin' Cru, … - Paul van Dyk
Paul van Dyk is one of the world's leading electronic dance music DJs and producers. - Dj Dee
D.J. Dee, or alternatively, D.J. D, (born: 1969) was an American DJ and briefly a member of the old school hip hop/electro funk/house music group Mantronix during the group's later years. D.J. Dee is Kurtis Mantronik's cousin, and appeared on one Mantronix album, 1990's "This Should Move Ya", before he was ultimately replaced by singer Jade Trini for Mantronix's final album in 1991. - Dj Shadow
DJ Shadow (born Josh Davis on January 1, 1973) is a United States DJ, turntablist, music producer and songwriter. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental hip hop and first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut album, "Endtroducing.....", which was constructed entirely from samples. - Grandmaster Flash
Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados), better known as Grandmaster Flash, is a hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, becoming the first hip hop artists so honored. - David Guetta
David Guetta is a French DJ. At age 13, he began mixing his first vinyls. At 17, he worked as DJ at Broad, Paris, launching his career. In 1988–1990, he mixed house music at Radio Nova. In 2005, his single "The World Is Mine" topped European dance charts. He appeared in an advertisement for L'Oréal hair cream. His often accompanied singer is Chris Willis. On 13 August 2005, he performed in the Creamfields Spanish festival, … - Wolfman Jack
Robert Weston (Bob) Smith (21 January 1938 - 1 July 1995) was a gravelly-voiced disc jockey who became world famous in the 1960s and 1970s under the stage name of Wolfman Jack. - Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15 1937 - February 13 2002) was a respected and influential American country music singer Jennings was born in Littlefield, Texas to Lorene Beatrice Shipley and William Alvin Jennings. He taught himself to play guitar at age eight, and formed his first band two years later. He worked as a DJ throughout his adolescence, dropping out of high school to pursue a career in music. During his time working as a DJ, he met and befriended Buddy Holly. - Paul Oakenfold
"Paul Oakenfold" is a record producer and one of the best-known, and most expensive (£25,000 per gig) Trance DJs worldwide. - Carl Cox
Carl Cox is a popular international techno and house DJ. He began as a hardcore and acid house DJ in the mid 1980s, making a name for himself as the "Three Deck Wizard" in 1988, when, during the Second Summer of Love, he began to play on three turntables at once. He has played at such famous clubs as Shelly's, Sterns Nightclub, Heaven, Angels and The Haçienda, as well as huge raves for Fantazia, Dreamscape, Amensia House. - Dirty South
Dirty South (born Dragan Roganovic) is an Australian DJ and record producer. Born in England and moving to Australia when he was 13 years old, his mixing career began by using a 2 deck NEC tape player to record songs off the radio. By then using the pause and play tracks together he created mixtapes to distribute to his friends and by the year 2000 he brought a set of decks to mix in the more traditional style. Roganovic's producing career developed in tandem to his DJ'ing career, … - Armin van Buuren
Armin van Buuren (b. December 25, 1976) is a renowned trance music DJ and producer hailing from Leiden, the Netherlands. He is currently ranked #3 worldwide according to The DJ List, the world's largest DJ directory. However in 2006, he placed 2nd in DJ Mag's annual Top 100 vote. - Benny Benassi
Benny Benassi (born Marco Benassi Geneser July 13 1967) is an Italian disc jockey and a euro house/electroclash artist, who lives in Reggio Emilia, a town in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Benny Benassi is one of the top 13 DJ's in the world according to the "theDJlist.com". Hes danish parentage comes from the Geneser family. - Dj Sammy
DJ Sammy (born Samuel Bouriah, October 29, 1969 in Mallorca, Spain) is a dance music DJ. He has had four Top 10 hits in the United Kingdom, one of them being a cover of Bryan Adams's "Heaven". He has been praised for his many collaborations with Dj patzer. His cover of "Heaven" was a collaboration with Dominique van Hulst, a popular Dutch vocalist who is usually known as "Do". He has also collaborated with Loona, whom he later married, … - John R.
John R. (born John Richbourg, August 20, 1910, Manning, South Carolina; died February 15, 1986, Nashville, Tennessee) was an American radio disc jockey who attained fame and notoriety in the 1950s and 1960s for playing rhythm and blues music on Nashville radio station WLAC. - Afrika Bambaataa
Afrika Bambaataa (born April 17 1957) (born Kevin Donovan) is a DJ and community leader from the South Bronx, who was instrumental in the early development of hip hop throughout the 1970s. - John B
John B (born John Bryn Williams, 1977 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England) is a drum and bass DJ and producer from the UK. He is widely recognised for his very wild hair and his talent at producing cutting edge drum and bass tracks. While his trademark sound has evolved through the years, it generally involves catchy female vocals and trance-like synths (a style which has been dubbed "trance and bass", "trancestep" and "futurestep" by listeners). - Slow
Slow (aka DJ Slow, born Vellu Maurola, 1975, Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish DJ and music producer. His first encounters with hip hop acts such as Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Eric B & Rakim led him to pursue career in DJing. Later on he ventured into making music and remixing others tracks. Currently he's known for his smooth, yet groovy nu-jazz style as well as versatile producer of commercial music for high profile projects for advertising, TV and cinema. - Frankie Knuckles
Frankie Knuckles (born January 18, 1955, in New York) is a DJ, record producer and remix artist. He played an important role in developing house music (an electronic style of dance music) as a Chicago DJ in the 1980s. As well, he helped to popularize house music in the 1990s, with his work as a producer and remixer. In 2005, Knuckles was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his achievements as a DJ. - Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedian and radio DJ. Goldberg is one of only ten individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, counting Daytime Emmy Awards. She is the second African American female performer to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel); she has also won two Golden Globe Awards. - Adrian Cronauer
Adrian Cronauer (born September 8, 1938) is a lawyer and former radio disc jockey from the United States. Cronauer was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began his broadcasting career at the age of 12, as a guest for a Pittsburgh-area children's amateur hour. He attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he helped found the forerunner of the university's college radio station WPTS. He also attended American University where he worked at the student radio station, WAMU, … - Ferry Corsten
Ferry Corsten (born December 4 1973 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is an early pioneer and producer of trance, in addition to being a world-renowed DJ and remixer. - Laurent Garnier
Laurent Garnier (born February 1, 1966) is a French techno music producer and DJ. A former staffer at the embassy in London, Laurent Garnier began DJ-ing in Manchester during the late 1980s. By the following decade, he had a broad stylistic range, able to span classic deep house and Detroit techno, the harder side of acid/trance and jazzy tracks as well. He added production work to his schedule in the early 1990s and recorded several LPs. - Pete Tong
Pete Tong (born July 1960) is a British DJ who works for BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom. He is known worldwide by fans of electronic music for hosting programs such as "Essential Mix" and "Essential Selection" on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio streams, for his record label FFRR Records, and for his own performances at nightclubs across the globe. Tong has also worked as a record producer. - Ann Marie
Ann Marie (born 1953, Wood River, Illinois, USA) is the stage name of the now retired big-bust model, stripper and actress, Kathy Ayers. She attended the University of Illinois before dropping out to pursue a career in nightclub dancing in Sarasota, Florida in 1974. As a feature dancer she earned up to US$3,500 a week. In 1975, she appeared as the "Fisherman's wife" and "Pink bikini woman" in the Russ Meyer movie "Supervixens". - Richie Hawtin
Richard (Richie) Hawtin (born June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is a Canadian electronic musician and internationally-touring DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s. Hawtin is best known for his haunting, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a moniker he continued to use into the mid-2000s. - Headliner
Headliner (born Timothy Barnwell, 26 July 1967, in New Jersey, U.S.) is a DJ associated with the hip hop/rap ensemble, known as Arrested Development. He left the group after their split in 1996, and was not re-engaged for their later reformation in 2000. - Rick Dees
Rigdon Osmond "Rick" Dees III (born March 14, 1950 in Jacksonville, Florida) is a radio disc jockey who currently lives in the San Fernando Valley community of Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, California, USA. Dees is best known for his syndicated radio show "Rick Dees Weekly Top 40" and for the novelty song "Disco Duck." Rick Dees does mornings at the new Movin' 93-9 FM in Los Angeles, along with Patti "Long Legs" Lopez, and Mark Wong - Murray The K
Murray Kaufman (February 14, 1922 - February 21, 1982) professionally known as Murray the K, was a famous and influential rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. During the early days of Beatlemania, he was frequently referred to as "the Fifth Beatle". - John Digweed
John Digweed (born January 1, 1967 in Hastings, England) is a British DJ and record producer. He began DJing at around age 13. His first breakthrough was getting a gig at the club Renaissance in Mansfield after fellow DJ Alexander Coe (aka Sasha) heard his demo. John Digweed, along with Sasha, as Sasha and Digweed, is known for promoting a progressive trance/house sound that became popular in Europe and North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s. - Uncle Kracker
Uncle Kracker (born Matthew Shafer, 6 June 1974, in Mount Clemens, Michigan) is an American rock and country musician. He started out his career at a young age as a fledgling rapper. He met Kid Rock in 1987, and Rock asked Kracker to become his DJ. Kracker did not know how to work the turntables, but he soon learned how to, and he became a long-term friend and colleague of Rock. - David Morales
David Morales (born 21 August 1961, in Brooklyn, New York), is an internationally acclaimed Grammy winning house music DJ and producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time, transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks. - Dr. Demento
Dr. Demento (born April 2, 1941, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the stage name of Barret Eugene Hansen, a radio disc jockey specializing in novelty songs and pop music parodies. He created the persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM. After Hansen played "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio, DJ Steven Clean said that Hansen had to be "demented" to play that. Thereafter, the name stuck. - John Kennedy
John Kennedy (not to be confused with dance musician Jon Kennedy), is a radio and club DJ who presents on London radio station XFM, between 10pm and 1am Monday-Thurdays. His show, X-Posure, focuses on new, cutting edge music. It has a cult following and is considered by many listeners to be the last outpost of XFM's underground agenda of old. Indeed, Kennedy is the only DJ to have been with XFM since its inception. - Felix da Housecat
Felix da Housecat (born Felix Stallings in Detroit, Michigan) is a House music DJ and record producer. Felix is regarded as a member of the second wave of Chicago house. He entered the dance music elite not only via his recordings (under a number of aliases, including Thee Maddkatt Courtship, Aphrohead and Sharkimaxx), but also for his ownership of Radikal Fear Records, … - Aim
Aim (born Andrew Turner) is a British musician, DJ and producer, who was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. His father was a jazz drummer and instrument shop owner, and Turner followed in his fathers footsteps, also owning a music shop. It was here that he began to hone his skills on the decks, helping him to embark upon his musical career. Aim's sound is a blend of funky electronic music and hip hop beats, a sound which typified the Grand Central Records label. - Robbie Rivera
Riberto Louis Rivera, better known as Robbie Rivera, is a prolific house music producer and DJ born in Puerto Rico. He has an extensive catalog of original productions and remixes to his credit, ranging from tribal to progressive house, as well as incorporating garage and latin elements. As a solo artist he has hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice: in 2001 with "Feel This 2001" and again in 2003 with "The Hum Melody".
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