Dirty South and Jerome Isma-Ae

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