DEREK ALLEN
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DEREK ALLEN is performing within the field of Electronic music and is ranked #16764 on The Official Global DJ Rankings list.
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Derek Fortrose Allen was Secretary of the British Academy from 1969 to 1973 and Treasurer of that organisation from 1973 until his death.
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Derek ‘DJA’ Allen is a music producer, sound designer & DJ in Los Angeles.
Louisville native Derek Allen started making music as a teenager, eventually relocating to Philadelphia where he began working with Diplo and Mad Decent as a producer and engineer. As use- part of the Mad Decent crew and one of Diplo’s co-producers, he co-wrote Major Lazer’s “Lazer Theme” and “Come On” with Diplo and Tiesto; as well as engineering and additional production on MIA’s albums Kala and MAYA, Robyn’s Body Talk, and Major Lazer’s Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do, while also remixing Rusko, Passion Pit, Diplo, Santigold, Mansions On The Moon, Amanda Blank, Black Gold, of Montreal, 3OH!3, and countless others.
July 2011 brings his first self produced solo record, the DJA EP on Mad get-Decent.