DJ_Dave
DJ_Dave is the stage name of Sarah Davis, an electronic producer and DJ who writes her music in code, live on stage. She works in Strudel, an open-source live-coding program, and streams her coding sessions online, taking ideas from the people watching.
She found live coding through a flyer for an unconventional music class while she was at art school, and moved away from fashion studies after an algorave course. Early shows were in Brooklyn DIY spaces. Her 2023 EP Intercell was made entirely in code, and she's since remixed Tove Lo, Channel Tres and Pearly Drops, played Portola and Nuits Sonores, and joined Beatport's Next class of 2026.
Her debut album Hardcore Software came out on 2 October 2026 on Mad Decent, with Switch Angel, one of Strudel's creators, alongside Lil Data, c_robo_ and meat computer. She opened her first headline run, the Hardcore Software Tour, at El Rey in Los Angeles on 1 October, and is supporting horsegiirL on the Nature Is Healing tour through November and December.
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Details
- Real name
- Sarah Davis
- Also known as
- DJ Dave
- Labels
- Mad Decent, Atlantic Records UK, Spill Tab
- Releases
- 16 tracked
- Spotify
- 58.7K followers53%
