About this Host
“Datsuzoku” is one of the DJ aliases of Steve David who hails from Indore, India. Steve started his journey as a deejay in late 2012’s in India and few years became one of the founding members of his city’s underground music movement. During his career in India Steve played down tempo, deep, progressive, melodic house and techno tunes under his alias ‘Sublimation’ a duo act. Steve performed in several reputed clubs, music festivals in India where he got an opportunity to perform alongside international and local veteran deejays in the electronic dance music scene like Guy J, Guy Mantzur, Khen, Joseph Ashworth, Patrice Baumel, Dave Seaman, Thomas Gold, Donatello, Animal Picnic, Modd, Jobe, Juliet Fox, Arjun Vagale, Blot, Kohra, Ashroy, Ma Faiza, Vinayak A, Ankytrixx, Nikhil Chinapa, Sanjay Dutta, Reverse Osmosis and many more.
Steve’s DJ moniker ‘Datsuzoku’ is Inspired from the Japanese word which is also one of the seven principles of Zen Buddhism that means escaping/breaking from the daily routine, to discover more creativity. Steve’s arrival in Melbourne in early 2019 was one such moment in his life where he decided to continue pursuing his passion of exploring the oddities, rarities and powers of electronic music across an expansive landscape of genres from Jazz to Techno and everything in between to break from his daily routine.
“DIGGIN’ DOWN UNDER” is one such show of where Datsuzoku supports eclectic artists, producers, record labels, DJ’s, promoters and venues down under and overseas by featuring their music, their story every Friday 10 PM only on Kiss FM Australia whilst featuring a monthly exclusive interview, guest mix of an artist focusing on sub-genres and niches within that eclectic orbit.