Derek 'DJA' Allen

Derek 'DJA' Allen is a music producer, sound designer & DJ in Los Angeles.

Derek grew up in Louisville, KY underground music - eventually relocating to Philadelphia to work with Diplo as his assistant producer and engineer.

Credits include co-producing Lil Wayne "Two Shots" (The Carter IV LP), Wale "Slight Work" (Ambition LP) Travis Porter "Wobble" (From Day 1 LP), Major Lazer "Lazer Theme" (Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do LP) and the Diplo and Tiesto single "C'mon".

Derek has also engineered and done additional production on the LPs MIA - Kala and MAYA; Robyn - Body Talk; Major Lazer - Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do, Mates of State - Mountaintops, and many more.