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Dillon Amphitheater

201 W. Lodgepole St., 80435, Dillon, CO, US

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Dirty South biography

Dragan Roganović is a progressive house DJ and remixer who performs under the stage name Dirty South. Since his debut in 2004 he’s released two studio albums, seven singles, countless remixes and has produced four tracks for British rapper Example.

Born on the 15th of November 1978 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Roganović didn’t start experimenting with decks until his family relocated to Melbourne, Australia when he was 13. At first he used his family’s own NEC HiFi’s tape deck to experiment with sounds, and It’s no surprise that Roganović’s first experiences making music were built around making bootlegs and mashups.

It makes sense that he started out rejigging the music of others, considering the quite frankly alarming amount of remixes that he’s done in his time. He’s done official remixes for everyone from U2 and Led Zeppelin, to Snoop Dogg and The Pussycat Dolls.

His first releases were onto the internet, and that attention got him signed to his first label, Melbourne’s very own Vicious Vinyl records, in 2005. Since then he’s been one of the most successful and respected DJ’s in the Australian scene, gaining numerous ARIA Award nominations, topping the Australian club charts with 2006’s remix of Evermore’s “It’s Too Late” and was the first Australian artist in seven years to win one of Pete Tong's Essential New Tune awards in the same year.

The success wasn’t just at home either, he has two Grammy award nominations to his name for his remixing work and in 2012 he embarked on an enormous headlining tour of the United States. While on this jaunt, one to promote his collaboration with Esso “City Of Dreams”, he played the prestigious likes of the Los Angeles Palladium and New York’s Roseland Ballroom.

Studio albums came in 2013 and 2014, entitled “Speed of Life” and “With You” respectively. With Roganović now getting the acclaim that he deserves for his own music, there’s very little that remains to stop him from ascending to the very top of the music world. For someone as forward-thinking, daring and all around talented as Dirty South, that can only be a good thing

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San Francisco-based house producer Lane 8 (real name: Daniel Goldstein) made quite a splash when The Magician played his debut single, 'Don’t Want You Back'. This gained him far more notoriety and his fan base multiplied massively, his follow up single 'Dusty' was supported by Kidnap Kip and Jody Wintersoff to name a couple and his reputation grew further. His 3 track EP was packed with under fifteen minutes of complex and innovative electro whilst his reworkings of Fleetwood Mac and Brandy tracks set the blogosphere alight.

Easily one of the most exciting producers and musicians to emerge on the electro scene in 2014, critics have a close eye on this artist. He will be performing with Moon Boots at XOYO in London on the 14th of November and his live show is also one not to be missed, catch him before he heads Stateside where he is also making huge waves. His slick mixing style and huge dance inspired electro keeps crowds jumping throughout his packed out sets. Dropping innovative remixes alongside the cult singles 'Dusty' and 'Don't Want You Back' means this new producer has earned his place on the circuit.

A huge 2015 beckons, so try and catch him before he swaps the academies for warehouses.

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Dirty South really sounds as if it should be the stage name of some kind of raw, gritty, Houston hip hop act, but instead, it’s the pseudonym by which Serbian DJ Dragan Roganovic goes; he relocated to Melbourne at the age of thirteen to avoid the conflict raging in his homeland, and has gone from strength to strength since in musical terms, specialising in experimenting with different styles of house music; he’s treated with genuine reverence in that particular scene, despite the fact that he’s only just been around for a decade at this point. He hasn’t really met with any genuine chart success outside of Western Europe, where he’s had a handful of hit singles in the likes of France and Belgium, but as a live performer, he travels the world delivering raucous house sets to huge crowds at EDM festivals. Last year, he played a breathless slot at New York’s Electric Daisy Carnival, and did the same at the festival’s London leg, confirming his appeal on both sides of the Atlantic; he’s continuing to push his genre’s boundaries in relentless fashion, and it’s hard not to feel that a genuine breakthrough in commercial terms can only be around the corner at this point.

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