In house music’s early days, the DJ was not necessarily the focal point of the party, and at some point that changed. Feb. 6, 2013 “There are so many of these girls in fashion nowadays who call themselves a D.J.,” said the house-music D.J. I need that fix all the time. She has become an extremely sought … That vocabulary has become so democratic and the information is so accessible that I kind of miss when fashion was elitist. Honey Dijon was born and raised in Chicago the home of house music, but has been living in NYC for many years. I kind of miss when there were tribes of people that spoke different languages. These were beautiful worlds and I was not in a beautiful place. So, who is it benefitting? 50 Attending. So when you’re sitting down with Kim Jones to work on the music for a Louis Vuitton show, where do you start? Honey Dijon is an internationally respected dj and producer (she played at Ostgut, the predecessor to Berghain), a vibrant figure of the fashion world (she recently posed naked for Vogue Italia), and a native of Chicago, where house music was born. I recall seeing a subway ad for a genderfluid clothing line from Topman or something recently. I come from that school of thought where art, music, fashion, clubbing, all of it was a cultural center. Free. I miss the days when I would go to London and I had to buy certain things in London. That changed my life. Honey Dijon (formerly known as Miss Honey Dijon, legal name: Honey Redmond), is an American DJ, producer, electronic musician, and fashion icon. This interview first appeared in the print edition of RAIN magazine, fall 2016. Whose advantage is it working towards? It’s the same shit everywhere.” Pure Honey: matter-of-factly skewering orthodoxy wherever she encounters it. Upcoming events with Honey Dijon. It’s always going to be about making money. I’m not saying things should stay the same, obviously you need to evolve, but, sonically, music changed, and you don’t see a lot of people of color at the club anymore. Is having a fashion brand validate your beauty giving you your sense of worth? Honey Dijon contact information (name, email address, phone number). It’s funny how people that create the change very rarely get to experience the change. They’re straight and white. So, it’s not important, but it’s extremely important because it brings people joy. Accidentally. Naturally, it’s an instant floor filler. No. Which is stupid. Now it’s just like eating at McDonald’s. Now the biggest challenge is clubs or festivals won’t book you unless you’re a certain number of followers or more. HONEY DIJON WAS BORN AND RAISED IN CHICAGO, THE HOME OF HOUSE MUSIC, BUT HAS BEEN LIVING IN NYC FOR MANY YEARS.. Like many involved in the scene, her love affair with music began upon hearing her parent’s soul and r&b records at home. Born and raised in Chicago - the home of house music - the city's influence on Honey’s style is deeply ingrained. She is in Detroit for Movement, one of the world’s premier dance music festivals. I feel really free, and I feel really lustful. It was the only thing I had that was mine that I could control, and it was the only thing that made me feel good. “Cherry Pie” by Sade. The night before, she played a peak-time set at the annual OK, Cool! We have all of this information, but people only look for things that they know or that they’re comfortable with. I could go on, and on, and on, and on. This is why I don’t take dance music lightly, because it was how I experienced things. High heels hurt. Born and raised in Chicago - the home of house music - the city's influence on Honey’s style is deeply ingrained. Do you feel like the culture of dance music has shifted towards consumption? I’ll say this: my voice is my life experience of being in different environments from the small, gay black clubs, to the big New York clubs, to the London clubs, from Chicago to Detroit. "[It's] punk and industrial, with the gay clubs and the black clubs." Soon she wanted to be the one dropping the needle on the record whenever they held parties in the family basement and the lure of club life soon followed. “Welcome to the Pleasuredome,” Frankie Goes to Hollywood. In the studio, Honey brings her unique perspective and experience to her productions as well. “When You Wake Up Tomorrow,” Candi Staton. Like, they don’t actually give a fuck about making the world a safer, more hospitable place—. Born and raised in Chicago, later moving to New York, and now dividing her living time between the Big Apple and Berlin, Honey Dijon has been present for many of the critical cultural moments in the evolution of dance music, including the rise of house culture in Chicago and its diversification in New York. With her charisma,style and broad understanding of electronic music and upcoming gigs in Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Amsterdam, Germany, Spain, and Paris to name a few there seems to be no stopping Miss Dijon. I’m not curing cancer, but at the same time…. Do you think that’s true? I’ll tell you a funny story—I never talk about this. Given that you’re playing constantly, how do you challenge yourself and keep it fresh? That’s just how it is. Born and raised in Chicago – the home of house music – the city's influence on Honey Dijon’s style is deeply ingrained. Now if I email Nile Rodgers, he’ll return my email, you know what I’m saying? DJ Honey Dijon is a tour de force in the New York party scene and is now taking her beats worldwide. I’m a really anxious person, so for me, when I can get into that zone, all the other stuff stops. This music was started by queer people of color.”. This was where people—I have a saying: meet, mate, and create. When I’m DJing sometimes, I don’t know if 10 minutes have gone by or 10 hours. I kind of feel controversial talking about that, because I’m not trying to betray my sisters, but I realized that even in the trans community my beauty standard was very different. The music has become more monotonous. We share culture. No, it’s not a bad thing, but you’re talking to a person that was able to do that for themselves without advertising. There are so many—you can’t do that! I just bought as much and learned as much as I could. Like many involved in the scene, her love affair with music began upon hearing her parent’s soul and r&b records at home. And with him it’s really easy, because I know what he likes and we just speak the same language. And they want to seem relevant and cool. As a producer, her reputation for bringing this knowledge to her forward thinking creations is growing all the time. And what do I want my life to be? We’ve all been sort of languaged into experiences. (@honeydijon) July 15, 2020. That’s a much better way of putting it. The survival rate for someone like myself is zero. There were early _GQ_s around the house, and that’s how I found out about Bruce Weber, and New York, and Studio 54. So it’s about reshuffling these records that I’ve been hearing for the last three weeks over and over again so that I’m still excited. I miss the community of record stores, running into my peers, being introduced to music that I normally wouldn’t listen to. She slides smoothly between disco, house, and techno, and she is as comfortable playing Berlin club mecca Panorama Bar, where she’s a regular, as she is at Art Basel or a Rick Owens afterparty. Clearly schooled on Derrick Carter but doin her own thang. Can you imagine? And no one else has that exact experience. Before long she was obsessively collecting her own music from hallowed stores like Imports Etc and Gramaphone in Chicago, all the while honing her own personal style. What the fuck am I going to do with a legacy in my casket? The hard part is that it’s not every day I have something to say as an artist. Let’s go there, then. Honey Dijon was born and raised in Chicago the home of house music, but has been living in NYC for many years. “My parents were pretty young when they had me,” she explains, “and I would play music at their parties before I had to go to bed. Passing, to me, is another word for invisible. . Honey Dijon was born and raised in Chicago the home of house music, but has been living in NYC for many years. Honey Dijon was born and raised in Chicago the home of house music, but has been living in NYC for many years. What do you think you do as a DJ that no one else can do? Oh my god, like, “Relax” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. “You could drop this in London and it would be the same,” says Honey Dijon, gesturing around the interior of The Apparatus Room. Does the world feel kind of small to you at this point? And I relate that back to bands—the look is important. I’m still excited about the music! Event Details. Crazy. For the past six years, Honey has worked with Jones to develop the soundtracks for Louis Vuitton’s men’s shows. It makes sense then that she was born and raised in Chicago, the birthplace of house music. It’s just different. Responsible Agent I remember when I was a kid, before I knew what trans was, I went to the mall and I saw Kissing to be Clever, and I just kept staring at it, and staring at it, and staring at it. I was grateful for that experience. The life expectancy of a subculture is a lot shorter. So, I think it’s great if that does happen, but I always feel like there’s an agenda with these corporate brands. Records I discovered i-D Magazine, and The Face, and BLITZ, and that was my introduction to London. Uh-huh. I’m going to ask you about some specific records. The day we meet, though, she’s relaxing. I always say, when I show up, for these next two or three hours, this is the experience you get, then you can go back to your regularly scheduled programming. Or that no one else does as well? Booking price. Every time I walked out of my door it was very ugly for me, but when I came into my room and I surrounded myself with all these beautiful art forms, it sort of fulfilled me and gave me hope. It’s like a really great fuck, and you never want it to stop. Both Honey Dijon's productions and DJ sets evoke relentless positive energy and the sense of freedom. View Honey Dijon booking agent, manager, publicist contact info. 32 Attending. Zero. Dijon: HFD (Honey Fucking Dijon) is born from the desire to celebrate people who feel invisible. Soon she wanted to be the one dropping the needle on the record whenever they held parties in the family basement and the lure of club life soon followed. Legacies are for the living. And bringing people joy is just as important as curing cancer. You go to the club and no one’s wearing color, no one’s bringing attitude. It’s going to taste the same, and it’s going to look the same.