Real name: Dragan Roganović
Dirty South caught the technically transmitt… Read Full Bio ↴Real name: Dragan Roganović
Dirty South caught the technically transmitted disease of DJing long before he even owned his first set of turntables. He taught himself mixing skills on his NEC tape deck, utilising nothing more than its twin cassette players and a pause button to recreate the sounds of club DJing in the safety of his own bedroom. By the time he got his first decks at the start of the millennium he’d already honed the techniques ready to take on the world of his heroes. At the same time he was mastering the concept of DJing, Dirty South was also readying himself for a future in studio knob-twiddling.

Spurred on by the megamixes that filtered through the radio waves into his disco den, the devious young man hotwired the family computer (once the domain of innocent school projects) with illicit music software smuggled to him by sympathetic allies. Soon he was jacking out his own remixes and edits of sordid club anthems and nasty chart hits.

Wallowing in the grime of his secret life, South soon slid into the murky world of mash-ups and bootlegs. It was only a matter of time before his treachery became notorious around the global underworld and his tracks seeping out of the local clubs and infecting the airwaves from the Australian radio networks to Pete Tong's Radio 1 playlists in the UK. It was only natural that Dirty South was embraced by the twisted, like-minded crew at Vicious who fuelled his perverted pastime with remix duties for some of the biggest artists including Depeche Mode, Chris Lake, Fedde Le Grand, Roger Sanchez, Cicada, Midnight Star and TV Rock. In between remixing, Dirty managed to score two ARIA nominations, Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune and numerous number one chart positions around the globe.

So what’s next? More tunes in the making, remixes and a bunch of DJ gigs to follow.

This Is the End
Dirty South Lyrics

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This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes... again

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Dirty South's song This Is the End are a tribute to the iconic song The End by The Doors. The first line of the song, "This is the end, beautiful friend", sets the tone for the entire song. It is a powerful statement about mortality and the inevitability of death. The repetition of the phrase "the end" emphasizes the fact that there is no avoiding it.

The next line, "My only friend, the end", also captures the finality of death. When we die, we are alone and there is no way to escape that fact. The following two lines, "Of our elaborate plans, the end, Of everything that stands, the end", acknowledge that no matter how grand our plans may be, death will eventually bring an end to everything we have built.

The last two lines of the song, "No safety or surprise, the end, I'll never look into your eyes... again", are particularly poignant. They speak to the fact that death is both expected and unexpected. There is no safety from something that is inevitable, yet at the same time, the moment of death can come upon us suddenly, without warning. The line "I'll never look into your eyes... again" acknowledges the finality of death and the loss of all that we hold dear.

Line by Line Meaning

This is the end
Our journey has come to a close

Beautiful friend
You were a wonderful companion

This is the end
Our journey has come to a close

My only friend, the end
You were my closest and most trusted companion

Of our elaborate plans, the end
All of our carefully crafted and complex ideas are now over

Of everything that stands, the end
The end of everything we fought for and everything that exists in this world

No safety or surprise, the end
There is no protection or unexpected events to occur to halt our end

I'll never look into your eyes... again
I will never have the opportunity to be in the presence of your gaze again

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