Julian “Jules” Dangov has been playing drum and bass in Adelaide for more than two decades, and for most of that time the city has known him by one name: Patch. Between 2003 and 2006 he won Most Popular Drum & Bass DJ at the SA Dance Music Awards four years running, and in 2005 and 2006 he made the top five South Australians in the national inthemix poll, one of only two drum and bass DJs on the list. Those are the credentials. What makes Jules interesting is what he did with them.
The reputation came first. Early on, he was known for impeccable mixing and sharp track selection, and for outplaying the touring internationals he was booked to support. That took him well beyond Adelaide: Heat and Swan Barracks in Perth, Revolver, Brown Alley and Metro in Melbourne, Halo in Hobart, Paradise in Bali, and Friction’s Shogun Audio night at Audio in Brighton, along with sessions in Budapest, the Nokia Terminal 9 national tour and Falls Festival. He produced too. His track Inhale appeared on the first Big Dog Records release, alongside the Adelaide anthem Can’t Resist You.
Plenty of DJs with that kind of record are happy to wait for the phone to ring. Jules started his own night.
Sauce, 2008
In August 2008, Jules posted an event called Patch Presents ‘Sauce’ at HQ. A profile from that period noted that he was promoting his forthcoming label night, Sauce, and building it from strength to strength. The early bookings show what he was after. DJ Strife came from New York for Sauce at HQ in March 2011. Rumour and Sauce brought Chris Su from Hungary that September. In March 2012 came the first Outlook Festival launch party in Adelaide, and that May he booked Ant TC1 at The Light. Ant TC1 is a name that comes back around in this story.
Then Sauce found its format. From 2012 to 2015 it ran Sunday sessions, often in the garden at Soho, built around the producers Jules actually rated. Lenzman came in November 2012, with a free pig on the spit, and again in October 2014. SpectraSoul from Shogun Audio played in December 2013 and November 2014. Skeptical from Exit Records did a Sunday Spit Session in February 2015, and Icicle followed that April. For Sauce’s fifth birthday in October 2013, Jules tied the party to Exit Records’ tenth anniversary, with dBridge and SP:MC on the bill.
He also did something few drum and bass promoters would think of. In March 2013 Sauce ran a Wine & Bass Family Friendly Event at the Gluttony silent disco during Fringe, and the following March came the Gluttony & Sauce Kids Silent Disco Sunday Session. It’s the clearest window into who Jules is: someone who thinks the music is worth sharing with anyone, including the next generation, on headphones, on a Sunday afternoon.
By 2015 Sauce was filling bigger rooms, with SpectraSoul’s The Mistress LP tour at HQ Complex and Alix Perez and Eprom’s Shades project, and Jules worked alongside Adelaide’s longest-running crews rather than against them, teaming up with Inbound to bring Ulterior Motive from Metalheadz in 2015 and again in 2016.
Icons
Through the late 2010s and early 2020s Jules kept playing. He was on The Collective’s local support for A.M.C at Electric Circus in 2021, among plenty of other bills. Then in January 2024 he launched Sauce Icons, and it’s the clearest statement yet of what Jules is about.
The idea is simple. Icons books the artists Jules wants to hear, the people who built the sound, whether or not they’re the hottest thing on a festival lineup that year. The series opened with Break from the UK and Kiljoy from New Zealand at Gatsby Lounge, then Trace at the Gala Room that May. Flight and Stamina MC came to Divide in January 2025. Ant TC1 headlined Volume 4 at Unit Three in Lonsdale in April 2025, a night that also celebrated the 50th birthday of Adelaide’s own Fiction. February 2026 brought Ray Keith, the Dread Recordings founder, to the Gala Room at The Austral, and in March Zero T played a Sunday session at BRKLYN on Rundle Street. In April 2026 Ant TC1 returned for 25 Years of Dispatch Recordings at The Little Red Door, with Patch, Mikey and Merkz in support.
Look at that list and a pattern jumps out. These are DJs and producers with decades of releases behind them, label founders and MCs who were there when the genre was being invented. Adelaide promoters mostly chase what’s trending, booking the acts that sell out a big room on hype. Icons goes the other way. Jules books the records he fell in love with, and puts them in front of a city that might otherwise never have heard them played by the people who made them. For older heads it’s a chance to see a hero up close. For younger crowds it’s a lesson in where the music they love came from.
Just as importantly, Icons never treats locals as filler. Every edition is stacked with Adelaide DJs and MCs: Fiction, Mikey, Kiddo, Merkz, Morph, Qzyphus and Batch, with Pab, G-Swift, Pase and Amorositie on the mic. Celebrating Fiction’s 50th on the same bill as Ant TC1 says a lot about how Jules sees the scene. The internationals are the occasion, but the community is the point.
Rollerz
If Sauce is where Jules brings the music to a room, Rollerz is where he brought it to the whole city every week. The show was a long-running drum and bass fixture on Fresh 92.7, going out on Thursday nights from 9 to 11pm with two hours of non-stop mixing: rollers, breaks and rolling basslines. Over the years Jules shared the show with a rotating crew that included Troub9l, Roost, Rusha and MC Pab. Fresh’s own write-up of him got to the heart of his style: he can’t be pigeonholed into one sub-genre, he blends liquid with harder, edgier tracks in a way few DJs can match, and he has played alongside Marky, Ed Rush, London Electricity and Goldie.
The radio and the events fed each other. In January 2025, the night before Icons Vol 3, Flight and Stamina MC joined Jules on Rollerz as special guests, so the city heard them on air before seeing them at Divide.
The final Fresh 92.7 episode went to air in November 2025, with Patch, Roost and Rusha in the studio. Rollerz didn’t end there. It moved to Twitch on Friday nights through the Dance Floor Heretics platform, and Adelaide Massive still archives the episodes. Recent shows include a Lenzman tribute with Mikey in July 2026, a fitting nod to an artist Sauce brought to Adelaide twice. He still plays the big nostalgia nights too, including a Chemistry DnB Classics set at Heaven Reunion 2024.
From a Friday at HQ in 2008 to Ant TC1 at The Little Red Door eighteen years later, the thread hasn’t changed. Jules books the artists he believes in, puts Adelaide’s own talent on the same stage, and trusts the city to turn up. In Adelaide drum and bass, Patch is the constant.
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