
Vol 364 Hip Hop Heavy
19 tracks, with Big Boss Vette, YG and Fetty Wap along the way.
Any Crowd. Any Genre. Any Time.
An open-format DJ trusted by brands, venues and private clients in South Africa and beyond to read the room and deliver, every time.
“If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it.”
William Shakespeare
From exclusive private functions to brand launches and festival stages, Devin reads the room early and keeps it moving all night.
131 mixes from the 947 Bloc Party archive and beyond. Search a song or pick a genre, then press play.

19 tracks, with Big Boss Vette, YG and Fetty Wap along the way.
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Demo onlyMixes stream for listening only and can’t be downloaded. Tracklists come from Devin’s own notes, or were identified from the audio where no notes exist. Song times are approximate.
Short, practical lessons from the booth and the radio desk. Start at Class 01 or jump to what you need.
Almost every song you play is built in blocks of 8 bars, and those blocks stack into 16 and 32. The crowd feels those blocks even if they couldn’t name them. Mix across them and the floor stumbles. Mix on them and nobody notices the join.
Devin’s tipSet a cue on the first downbeat of every song you prep, and a second one 32 bars in. You’ll always know where you are.
Sync is a tool, not a crutch. It doesn’t know when a track has a live drummer, a tempo drift or a badly gridded file. Your ears do.
Devin’s tipCue with one ear on, one ear off. Your live ear tells you what the room hears; the cue ear is only there to check.
The muddiest mixes come from two kick drums and two basslines fighting in the same space. The fix is the bass swap.
Devin’s tipCut, don’t boost. If something sounds thin, take away from the other track instead of pushing the EQ past twelve o’clock.
Two songs can be perfectly beatmatched and still clash, because their keys disagree. Harmonic mixing makes long blends sound like one record.
Devin’s tipKey is a guide, not a rule. If the crowd wants the song, play the song, and cut into it cleanly on a phrase.
Five hundred radio mixes taught Devin to plan. The clubs taught him to throw the plan away. Your job is the room in front of you, not the set you practised.
Devin’s tipHave an exit ready. Every song you play, know two songs you could go to next: one up, one sideways.
A radio mix has to work in a car, on a phone speaker and in a club, with no visuals and no second chances. It’s the tightest kind of DJing there is.
Devin’s tipWrite the tracklist while you plan, not after. It doubles as your prep sheet and your listeners will ask for it.
Loud isn’t the same as good. Once the meters hit red, the mixer starts cutting the tops off your waves, and the sound turns harsh and tiring.
Devin’s tipSound engineers remember the DJ who kept it clean. That’s how you get booked back.

Devin is an open-format DJ, moving between old-skool R&B, hip hop, house and party anthems as the room calls for it. Clubs, brand launches, private functions, festival stages. Devin reads every room the same way: early, carefully, and with the whole crowd in mind. He brings the energy and leaves the floor full.
I am because HE is
Tell Devin about the event and he'll come back with availability and a quote. Based in Johannesburg, available across South Africa and internationally.
Prefer to write directly? djdevinsa@gmail.com