Dieselboy is American drum and bass DJ and producer Damian Higgins. His career has been especially closely associated with the art of the mix: layered selections, dramatic pacing, and transitions conceived as part of a larger listening experience.
He founded Human Imprint in 2002 as a drum and bass outlet and co-founded Subhuman, which also released dubstep and electro. His production work includes collaborations with Mark The Beast, including the 2017 release Angel Dust. That broader bass-music catalogue sits alongside, rather than replaces, his long connection with drum and bass.
In a 2017 UKF interview, Higgins described treating tracks as different colours in a composition instead of simply playing them back to back. His Destroyer 2 mix used 138 tracks, selected and arranged over several weeks to create an experience that would keep revealing details on repeat listens. He also recalled the importance of British rave tapes and the challenges American drum and bass artists faced in gaining recognition overseas. For visitors, his recorded mixes are therefore as important an entry point as individual productions: they document his choices as a DJ and his particular sense of musical storytelling.
