Dguru is a Seoul-based DJ, producer, and bandleader whose work moves between club culture, live electronic performance, and experimental dance music. Across more than two decades of Korean electronic music, he has remained a steady figure in Seoul’s club and underground scenes. He began playing electronic music in the early 2000s, holding residencies at venues including Cargo and Answer, and continues to appear regularly across the city’s club and live circuits. His DJ sets move through disco, indie dance, house, and the wider field of dance music, but he treats genre as a way of organizing records rather than a fixed identity. What matters more is the dramaturgy of a night: how energy is built and released over time, where the rhythmic weight sits, and how texture and density shift from one record to the next. He works across two distinct DJ contexts—modern club systems with CDJs and digital mixers, and longer, listening-oriented nights on turntables and rotary mixers—treating each as its own discipline rather than applying one formula to every room. Dguru released his first album in 2006. Since 2008, he has led Idiotape, the Seoul electronic group whose live performances blur the line between band and electronic music, bringing them to festivals including Glastonbury, Sziget, Exit, SXSW, Trans Musicales, Paléo, Summer Sonic, and Paris Electronic Week. He is also a member of the DJ collectives Dubplate and Disco Experience. In January 2026, he founded Sangsu Records, an experimental electronic music platform focused on live performance, the artistic process, and Seoul’s evolving electronic scene. Mixmag Asia described the label as “exploratory, patient, and grounded in live scenes,” with an “attention to texture and space.” Its first release, Sangsu 001, features work by GAZAEBAL, Motoko, Haihm, and Dguru himself. Whether on a club floor, in a long-form loft setting, or through live electronic performance, his work begins from the same question: not which records are impressive, but how a night is shaped as it moves.