In addition to the donation of money, thanks to our stellar pool of DJs, the DJs For DRC project has involved the donation of time, with Jay Haze and his crew researching and communicating with various Congolese charities. In the end, we have selected two organizations. Each participating DJ can choose which charity their money [...]

London’s Spencer Parker is one of the latest to link up with DJs For DRC. Since rising on the scene just four years ago, Mr. Parker has had a successful string of releases for labels like Rekids, NRK, Tsuba, and Arearemote. Now a Berlin resident, Spencer is working on his first artist album among several other projects which he discusses below in this brief Q&A. He will donate half his fee from a secret forthcoming date at Jaded, London.

Goa Madrid is turning 15 years old, and they’re celebrating with an unbeatable lineup on the Sunday the 6th of December. Jay Haze will, as usual, donate half his fee toward DJs for DRC, and Goa will make an extra contribution on top of that. One floor is dedicated to Jay’s label TuningSpork with sets [...]

Loco Dice was one of the first DJs to join up with our cause, and naturally so, as he shares so much in common with DJs For DRC founder Jay Haze. They both bring hip-hop attitude into the world of electronic dance music, and they strongly respect each other as DJs, having played many parties together. On all his commercially released mix CDs, Loco Dice has included a track by Jay or from TuningSpork Records. Dice is also the man behind Desolat, the label that last year released Jay’s Mama Coca EP, and most recently Dice’s own single-sided, limited edition 12”. Having traveled the world, he is no stranger to social injustice, so was happy to be a part of our project and answer a few questions about it…

The special guest for next weekend’s event at T-Bar, London, has just been revealed! Thanks to Luke Solomon for donating half his DJ fee towards victims in the Congo.

The Times recently ran an article titled ‘The party philanthropists’, also duplicated at the Times Online as ‘Philanthropic hedonism and cool charity parties’. They highlighted Jay Haze as one of the “DJs, celebs, and bands sexing up fund-raising”. Here’s an excerpt:
Recently, the Berlin-based and creatively credible DJ Jay Haze decided to give all the [...]

Tiga is one of the first DJs to join DJs for DRC. Tiga is the boss of Turbo Recordings and has also released singles, albums, remixes and mix compilations for a number of other well respected labels like !K7, NovaMute, DFA and BPitch. He is currently touring in support of his new album Ciao! and [...]

(Berlin, DE) – We’ve written recently about Jay Haze trying to help out the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo by donating all the money made from his recent Fabric mix, but that’s not even the whole story. He’s also donating half his DJ fees from September to the end of the year to the [...]

Getting paid handsomely for your DJ gigs? If so, Jay Haze needs you!
If you read our news article about Haze’s recent Fabric mix, then you’ll already know that he’s giving away all of the money he gets from the project to UK charity Merlin Health Services, who are currently providing aid and relief to the [...]