DJs
The DJs behind the sound.
Destroyer
Hardcore techno DJ associated with the Death Row Techno and Species 'Disgustingly Hard Techno' series, who also played Steam's 'Escape The Asylum' tour in 1996.
Destruction
DJ Destruction, active on the UK rave scene from around 1988, playing major events including Helter Skelter, Dreamscape, Obsession, Fusion, Amnesia, The Prodigy's 'Experience' tour and Glastonbury 1992.
DEVASTATE
UK hardcore DJ active from around 2000. He played United Dance vs Fever (2000-01), Slammin Vinyl's NYE 2000 event, GBH vs Hardcore Heaven (2001), Dizstruxshon (2005) and Uprising (2008), often going back-to-back with Robbie Long.
Devious D
DJ with a long run on the London jungle and hardcore circuit, from Hysteria in 1994-95 through Raindance (1999-2000), Heat & Jungle Fever, Kool FM's 6th Birthday (2001) and Heat's 8th Birthday (2004). He often played back-to-back with Funky Flirt.
Die
DJ Die (Dan Kausman) is a Bristol drum & bass DJ and producer and a founding member of the Full Cycle crew with Roni Size, Krust and Suv. He was part of Reprazent, whose album 'New Forms' won the 1997 Mercury Prize, and later launched the Gutterfunk label. He was a regular at Innovation events through the 2000s.
Doc Scott
Scott McIlroy (b. 1971), British drum and bass DJ/producer who founded influential label 31 Records in 1994, home to seminal track 'Shadow Boxing'.
Dolphin
Veteran UK hardcore techno DJ/producer active since the early 1990s (aligned with Helter Skelter, Dreamscape and North); opened 3rd Planet Records in 1994 and later founded the Komplex Kommunications label in 2011.
Donovan Bad Boy Smith
Donovan 'Bad Boy' Smith, early UK breakbeat hardcore/jungle radio DJ with residencies at Fantazia, the Astoria, Busby's, the Gardening Club and Club Da Da; earlier spun under pseudonyms 'The Baron', 'Don the Glove' and 'Quick Eddie'.
Dougal
DJ Dougal (Paul Arnold Clarke, b. 1975, Northampton), longest-running happy hardcore DJ in the scene, broke out at Dreamscape's 1993 New Year's Eve rave, voted UK's #1 Hardcore DJ 1994; co-founded the Essential Platinum label with Hixxy.
Dr S Gachet
Seminal UK jungle/drum and bass DJ since the early 1990s, resident at Camden Palace, Lazerdome, The Rocket and Sterns (1990-94), then AWOL nights at Paradise Club/Ministry of Sound alongside Randall, Micky Finn, Kenny Ken and Darren Jay; founder of Audio Maze and Johnny Biscuit labels; guest-hosted BBC Radio 1's 'One in the Jungle'.