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‘There was three of them waiting, like: play this track or else’: DJ EZ, the reality-bending maestro of the decks
The staunch champion of garage is one of the UK’s most talented musicians, manipulating tracks at lightning speed. In a rare interview he discusses neurodiversity, being teetotal – and the truth about his fees
Behold the crossfader-and-loop sorcery as EZ chops between Wookie and Lain’s Battle and Cleptomaniacs’ All I Didn’t Do on his 2012 Boiler Room set (“the greatest piece of DJing ever performed,” according to one comment with 2,100 upvotes), or a recent TikTok in which he brings together Dizzee Rascal and Eurythmics like a matchmaker introducing two new lovers. I still don’t know them to this day.” At 15 he left home and started living at Dance FM’s premises, which made him a natural choice to fill in for any other DJ who was late or failed to show up, giving EZ more airtime. In 2012 he played a short set filled with turntablist trickery on the then-nascent Boiler Room, precipitating a garage revival and establishing what a DJ mix could be in the online age.
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