Ivan Smagghe
also plays Berlin — 5 nights
His genre defying/defining production from Black Strobe, It’s A Fine Line, Smagghe & Cross and now Ivan & Johnny has connected him to and garnered the praise from the likes of Craig Richards, Vladimir Ivkovic, Paranoid London, Solar and of course, his long time friend Andrew Weatherall - all fellow crusaders in the fight to prove that electronic music is so much more than a one dimensional soundtrack for a night on the lash, and so much more than an Instagram account.
In January 2020, Smagghe & Cross released their second LP, 1819, on Offen Music and are working on a new lp for the end of the 2025. Ivan & Johnny is his project with Quinn from Paranoid London, it will cater exclusively to the furthest corners of the dancefloors.
After co-running the legendary french label and parties, “Kill The DJ,” Ivan washeading up his own imprint, “Les Disques De La Mort”; an outlet for a unique taste in music and spanning releases & remixes from long staples (Manfredas, Cosmo Vitelli, Marco Passarani, I-Cube, Red Axes, Roman Fluegel) & special new comers (Elles, Sworn Virgins, Zillas on Acid). LDDLM is a label that is always faithful to an instinctively recognisable “style of no style” and the refusal to be pigeonholed. Covid reframed the way of making and diffusing music : whilst thinking of reactivating some label action, Ivan has opened Amor Fati with Niv Arzi from Red Axes, a counterintuitive blog page giving away edits to whoever wants them. The collaboration between these two may take form in Customs & Faces, a new outlet and an Axes x Smagghe 12”.
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“Dresden”, the party/dj duo Ivan shares with Lithuanian legend Manfredas is a celebratory manifestation of Ivan’s ethos and has expanded from London & Vilnius residencies to world touring. Look out for their all-nighters (and their recordings), their t-shirt collabs with Magic Castles and soon, their not-so-functional club music.
Ivan also has been transmitting on NTS, London’s Uber-cool London radio.Channeling, his much-loved show with Nathan Gregory Wilkins has kept strange music aficionados on their toes for more than ten years,
You can catch Ivan subverting the masses any given weekend in clubs & festivals such as Lux/Lisbon, Nitsa/Barcelona, Rex/Paris, In Between/Los Angeles, Corsica Studios/London, DC10/IbizaNuits Sonores/Lyon, Love International/Croatia, Waking Life/Crato, Houghton/Norfolk and many other dens of iniquity worldwide.
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
Records out on fabric Records, Kill The DJ, The Flame Recordings, Live At Robert Johnson, Join Our Club, Offen Music and Snap Crackle & Pop. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
2026
- Fri 14 AugSignalfirst time · Signal NYC
- Sat 30 MayH0L0their 2nd night · H0L0 NYC, Jigit, ReSolute
- Fri 29 MayOuter Heaventheir 2nd night
- Sat 18 AprTBA - East WilliamsburgGolden Record NYC, Rex Club
2025 — 2 nights
- Fri 14 Mar 2025Good Roomtheir 2nd night · FIXED
- Fri 14 Feb 2025Outer Heavenfirst time
2024 — 1 night
- Fri 8 Mar 2024Good Roomfirst time · FIXED
2023 — 1 night
- Sun 24 Sep 2023H0L0first time · ReSolute
Their rooms
One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.
- H0L0Sep 2023 – May 20262 nights
- Outer HeavenFeb 2025 – May 20262 nights
- Good RoomMar 2024 – Mar 20252 nights
Once each: Signal. One of the 8 listings never named a room, and is not counted as one.
Who they play with
Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.
- JDH & Dave PGood Room ×2 · Mar 2024 – Mar 20252 nights
The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography, the labels and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. Nothing on this page was written for it.