Andi Durrant Email & Phone Number

Andi Durrant is a broadcaster, DJ, music producer, writer and company founder from Yorkshire. He’s interviewed everyone from The Prodigy to Daft Punk, The Pet Shop Boys to Pendulum, Calvin Harris to High Contrast, and is the youngest ever winner of the Radio Academy Gold award as the UK’s Best Music Broadcaster. He’s presented flagship national radio programmes for Kiss, Capital and Galaxy in the UK, Nova Australia and over 40 stations in 18 countries around the world.Andi has been instrumental in introducing new talent to the European electronic music scene, written numerous music documentaries, and acts as Executive Producer for some of the worlds biggest international programmes.As a DJ he’s played festival stages across the globe and held residencies at some of the worlds best clubs and venues. His Electrik Playground events in London, Leeds, Sheffield and Ibiza were a showcase for more underground artists, but he’s equally at home as the support DJ for acts like Example, Dizzee Rascal or Professor Green.
Andi has over 130 releases and remixes to his name. He’s produced top 5 records and worked on music for Armin van Buuren, Will I Am, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Aoki, Plan B and many more. As one half of Riley & Durrant he was at the heart of the “superclub” era playing at legendary parties like Cream, Gatecrasher and Godskitchen, Space and Amnesia Ibiza, and a 2 year residency with Tiesto at Privilege. Riley & Durrant released 5 compilations, an artist album and numerous TV and film soundtracks.In 2013 Andi Durrant and Nick Riley set up Distorted - a multi award winning audio content agency. Distorted produces and syndicates market-leading podcasts and radio programmes in the fields of music, media, sport, entertainment and health. Distorted is also the worlds biggest producer of electronic music radio programmes working with over 70 artists and 400 radio stations.In 2021 Andi created the Dance Music Archive - a hugely popular website bringing together 30 years of electronic music history through DJ mixes, live sets, flyers, festival broadcasts, lost tapes, blogs, artwork, magazines and forgotten recordings. Andi has recently launched the Dance Music Archive radio show, airing every Sunday evening from 7pm across the UK on Kisstory.Andi served on the Executive Board of the Association For Electronic Music (AFEM) for 5 years, is a school governor, and has recently been working on a project to build music and radio studios in underprivileged primary schools. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife, 3 children, 2 dogs and 2 cats.

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  Greenhead College, Huddersfield