Broadcaster | DJ | Producer

Andi Durrant is a multi award-winning broadcaster, DJ, music producer, writer and company founder from the UK.

He’s worked with everyone from The Prodigy to Daft Punk, The Pet Shop Boys to Pendulum, Calvin Harris to deadmau5 and Defected, 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.

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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.

Andi has over 130 releases and remixes to his name. He’s produced a string of top 10 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, Ministry of Sound, Godskitchen, Space and Amnesia Ibiza, and spent a number of years as Tiesto’s support at Privilege - the worlds biggest club. Riley & Durrant released 5 compilations, an artist album and produced numerous TV and film soundtracks.

 

Outside of his public persona, Andi is the founder and Director of audio agency This Is Distorted - the worlds biggest independent producer of music radio programmes, working with over 75 artists and 450 radio stations. They produce and syndicates market-leading podcasts and radio shows in the fields of music, media, sport, entertainment and health, and work with some of the biggest names in electronic music - representing over 10% of the DJ Mag Top 100.

 

In 2021 Andi created the Dance Music Archive - a hugely popular radio show, website, online community and events brand -  bringing together 30 years of electronic music history through DJ mixes, live sets, flyers, festival broadcasts, lost tapes, blogs, artwork, magazines and forgotten recordings. The Dance Music Archive radio show airs every Sunday evening from 7pm across the UK on Kisstory and Kiss Dance and has recently won Best Music Programme at the New York Festival Awards.

 

Andi served on the Executive Board of the Association For Electronic Music (AFEM) for 5 years, and has recently been working on a project to build music and radio studios in underprivileged primary schools. He lives in the middle of nowhere in Yorkshire with his wife, 3 children, 2 dogs and 2 cats.