Ivan Smagghe belongs to a top table of DJs that journalists like to lazily describe as "The DJ's DJ". He has the ability to play music like a raw conduit between famously obscure records whilst never losing sight of the dance floor's strobe soaked bodies - injecting something of himself seamlessly into the mix along the way. 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 their new releases. Ivan & Johnny is his project with Quinn from Paranoid London, expect bigger things in 2027 after the success of their "Balance No Bass" single. After co-running the legendary french label and parties, "Kill The DJ," Ivan created up his own imprint, "Les Disques De La Mort". Friendships were born or solidified: Manfredas, Cosmo Vitelli, Marco Passarani, I-Cube, Roman Fluegel... Ever mutating, Ivan created the Amor Fati page with Nic Arizona, a counterintuitive blog page giving away edits to whoever wants them. They also run the new label Customs & Faces together, releasing 4 massive 12"s in 2026: Circus Operandi (ep of the year for quite a few luminaries), Valerj, Shonky and Marco Passarani. Newcomers and faithfuls once again. "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, Festivals and club alike (Houghton, Love International, Audra, Wonderfruit). Look out for their all-nighters (and their recordings) and their now legendary t-shirt collab with ACME. Ivan also has been transmitting on NTS every other week, 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. In October 2025, he released a book of faded memories, Nul Si Découvert. 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/Ibiza Nuits Sonores/Lyon, Love International/Croatia, Waking Life/Crato, Houghton/Norfolk and many other dens of iniquity worldwide.