Joe Delon is a DJ, label owner, radio host, and writer based in Lisbon.

Joe’s sets draw on the fundamentals of dance music’s past – the snap of a disco break, the sleaze of a Chicago bassline, the funk of electro, and the bittersweet touch of Italo – and connect them to its vivid present, creating moments of pure pop catharsis along the way. Joe’s playful approach has brought him to respected clubs including Berghain/Panoramabar (Berlin), Closer (Kyiv), Savage (Hanoi), Blitz (Munich), C12 (Brussels), K4 (Ljubljana), Modeci (Seoul) and The Observatory (Saigon), and festivals including Dimensions, Lighthouse and Horst. A regular at queer parties, Joe has played for Adonis (London), Honcho (Pittsburgh), Por Detroit (LA), Snug (Hanoi), Los Ninos (Brussels), and Kiss Me Again (Manchester) and is a resident at Pumping Velvet (London).

Welt Discos, Joe’s label, is a platform for music that’s playfully serious and seriously playful. Alongside vinyl releases by friends and artists he admires, the label has also become home to a series of fundraising digital releases. Online, Joe has recorded guest mixes for Truants, Is Burning, The Ghost, Maricas, and Honey Soundsystem. On the radio, he ran the monthly show Flamingo on Lisbon’s Rádio Quântica for four years and was a resident on Frankfurt’s EOS Radio. He has appeared as a guest for Prosumer (NTS), CC:Disco (Rinse), Butter Side Up (Rinse), and Bubble World (Refuge Worldwide). Joe writes a newsletter about his experiences as a listener and DJ at joedelon.substack.com.