DjHistory

Ruby Savage joins us on the DJHistory podcast - Amsterdam-raised selector, broadcaster and one of the most thoughtful voices in modern club culture.

She reflects on growing up in the Dutch capital, where open-ended nights and eclectic radio shaped her musical instincts early on, and traces the path from those formative dancefloors to becoming a respected presence behind the decks and on the airwaves. We also discuss her Don’t Be A Creep initiative - a grassroots push to challenge behaviour in nightlife and protect the spaces that club culture depends on - alongside a wider conversation on independence, responsibility, and what it means to contribute something lasting to the culture.

Having shamelessly befriended Jamz Supernova a few weeks back, we managed to coax her into the DJH studio with the promise of a season ticket to watch Grimsby Town. We chatted about her rise through the radio ranks from local station in Sydenham to the BBC, where she has presented shows for ten years. Have listen, this is a woman with a mission and purpose.

In an industry that venerates youth, it’s remarkable achievement to be still going in your 40s, yet Greg Wilson is so close to his retirement pot, he can smell it from here. He began spinning in 1975 as a 15-year-old teenager, went on to win residencies at the Haçienda and, more importantly, Legend in Manchester.

Neil Rushton has enjoyed a lifetime of activity in dance music, from his discovery of northern soul to becoming a DJ and promoter. He's owned a bunch of record labels over the years, including Network, the label that turned Altern-8 into pop stars. He was also instrumental in the naming of a genre: techno. He explains how the seminal compilation, 1988's Techno! The New Dance Sound Of Detroit came about.

Artwork – aka Arthur Smith – was there at the birth of dubstep, guiding it into the limelight via the quasi pop stars Magnetic Man and out of the other side. There are few producers or DJs as versatile as this dance music polymath. We map his adventures with the likes of Skream, Benga and Danny Harrison from Big Apple in Croydon to the actual Big Apple, New York.