Ivan Smagghe

Ivan Smagghe stands at the crossroads between trendy scene hype and unflinching musical integrity. Since his earliest days on the Parisian electronic underground - working in record shops, as a music journalist, playing parties - he's shunned the obvious trends and embraced his own ideas choosing to work with a wide variety of close collaborators and develop the projects BlackStrobe and Volga Select. Long associated with the electro house sound, there's much more to his DJing and production than this particular niche. His daily leftfield eclectic show on Radio Nova allowed him to indulge his wide tastes, and spawned his Kill The DJ parties, label and compilations. He can currently be found touring as a DJ, releasing new material on Kill The DJ and appearing at festivals with the live presentation of Blackstrobe.