Dirty South (DJ)

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Dirty South
Birth name Dragan Roganovic
Also known as Dirty South
Genre(s) House
Electronica
Occupation(s) Disc jockey
Record producer
Years active 2005 – Present
Label(s) Vicious Vinyl
Website Official Websitee
MySpace Page

Dirty South (born Dragan Roganovic) is a prominent DJ, remixer and record producer from Melbourne, Australia.

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[edit] Biography

Born (c. 1978) in what was Yugoslavia, present day Serbia, 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 bought a set of decks to mix in the more traditional style.[1]

Roganovic's producing career developed in tandem to his DJ'ing career, he used his family computer to create remixes and mashups of other artists tracks and distributed them which caught the attention of Australian Vicious Vinyl records who signed him up in 2005 and allowed him to first prove his skills by remixing and then later creating his own tracks. In late 2006 he achieved #1 position in the Australian Club Charts with his remix of It's Too Late by Evermore[2] and was the first Australian artist since 1999 to win one of Pete Tongs 'Essential New Tune'. awards[3] It not only rocked the Australian dancing scene, but It's Too Late was also a massive anthem worldwide. 2006 also saw Dirty South debut at #11 in the INTHEMIX50 DJ charts. [4]

Dirty South teamed up with UK DJ Paul Harris in 2007 and produced Better Day which earned Dirty South another essential new tune by Pete Tong. He also remixed a number of songs including Reach For Me, Feels Like Home and Higher State of Consciousness with fellow Melburnians TV Rock. Late July he joined together with MYNC Project to release Everybody Freakin. But Dirty South's biggest honour came when his new single Let It Go got released on Axwell's record label Axtone.

September 2007 saw the release of the INTHEMIX50 DJ charts [5], in which Dirty South rocketed to the #2 DJ in Australia, up nine spots from 2006. He was also voted #1 most popular Australian producer [6]. Following the release of the INTHEMIX50 DJ charts was that of the DJ Mag Top 100, in which Dirty South debuted at #98 [7].

Dirty South provided a remix for Kaskade "Sorry." The remix has been nominated for a 2008 Grammy for Best Remixed Recording.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Singles

  • 2005 "Sleazy"
  • 2006 "Dirty South EP"
  • 2007 "Better Day" (with Paul Harris)
  • 2007 "Everybody Freakin" (with MYNC Project)
  • 2007 "Let It Go"
  • 2007 "Minority"
  • 2008 "The End"

[edit] Remixes

[edit] References

  1. ^ Vicious
  2. ^ AM Only Online
  3. ^ inthemix | Broadband |Dirty South - Ministry of Sound Session promo mix
  4. ^ Technics inthemix50 : 2006 :
  5. ^ inthemix50 : 2007 :
  6. ^ inthemix50 : 2007 :
  7. ^ DJmag.com: Top 100 DJs - Results & History

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