About DJ Lancaster
DJ Lancaster is Joey Lancaster, a Los Angeles-based house and electronic music DJ and producer formerly known as Dirty Kangaroo.
DJ Lancaster is the artist name of Joey Lancaster, a Los Angeles-based DJ and electronic music producer whose catalog moves through house, tech house, progressive house and wider electronic dance music.
His connection to DJ culture predates streaming and production software. In the late 1980s, he recorded DJ radio shows to cassette and physically edited the tapes to remove commercial breaks — an early obsession with sequencing, flow and the uninterrupted mix.
He later released music as Dirty Kangaroo, building a catalog across Spotify, Apple Music and Beatport. Tracks including “Let It Drop (hit the club),” “Take Me Home,” “Back in time,” “We Won't Stop Movin'” and “Spell on My Mind” became some of the project's most-listened-to releases.
His history runs through Austin, Texas, with the current work based in Los Angeles. That catalog now continues under a simpler identity: DJ Lancaster — the same artist and music under a direct new name.