Sean Den

With a sound that tugs on the pop-electronic heartstrings of the 80s, while simultaneously reimagining vintage club sounds through a contemporary lens, Irish producer and DJ Sean Den is placing himself at the forefront of the island’s romantic blend of Italo, Disco and House. 

Sean’s blend of ethereal summer-time and peak-time, queer-affiliated sounds have won him admirers all over the world, from TSHA and Sarah Story (who has supported a number of his tracks, most notably "Don't You" which she made her future dance track ID at Glastonbury and closed her FLY Open Air Boiler Room with it in 2023) to Jaguar, Cinthie, Massimiliano Pagliara and Pete Tong in clubs and venues across the globe like DC10,Fabric, Pikes and Pacha to name but a few..

This thrilling sequence of straight-up house, nu-disco acid and electro-clash is made all the more ear-catching with the bumpy basslines of Italo and the squelchy throwback of the 303, earning Sean a string of renowned releases on The Disco Express, Midnight People, Street Tracks, Pomme Frite, Stories and Cormac’s Polari Records, the latter of which where the producer has released three times; as part of Polari’s first VA No Tears In The Backroom from 2022, the first ever ‘Pamely Stanley’ edit on Polari – which made waves throughout the 2024 festival circuit – and his debut standalone EP on the label titled ‘Summer In London’. 

As a DJ, Sean pulls from the House sounds of Cinthie and Derrick Carter, the 80s aesthetic of Prince and the cosmic otherworldliness of Krystal Klear, all of which twist and knit themselves through the fabrics of Chicago and Detroit.

Having supported Fatboy Slim, Annie Mac, Patrick Topping, Kettama and Dense & Pika, the vinyl-playing selector is just as comfortable in a big-room setting as he is in a small dark room with a banging soundsystem; capable of meandering towards those big-moments while also maintaining the headsy, dancefloor-glued sensibility of a journey-DJ, earning him slots at Fatboy Slims All Back To Minehead, AVA Festival (where Sean won the Emerging DJ competition back in 2018), Emerge Festival, Berlin’s Bulbul, London’s 25 Paul St., Belfast’s dance music institution Shine and Derry’s Jika Jika. Mixes follwoed on RinseFm and BBC Radio where Sean has taken control of multiple broadcasts live from Celtronic festival, Stendhal Festival and Kwame Daniel's Inna Rythm show on new years eve. 

With a string of releases in the pipeline Sean looks set to build on what is already a glowing reputation; adding his own piece to styles of music that are just as much a part of the sonic culture in Ireland as they are in their transatlantic states.