hayden james is an australian producer and dj who works in the warm, vocal end of house. his own soundcloud profile puts him in sydney. his first record, Permission To Love, came out on future classic on 5 june 2013, and that label has carried most of what followed.

the one everything else gets measured against is Something About You, out in 2015. it reached number 5 on the uk official independent singles breakers chart that year and number 50 on the official independent singles chart later in 2015. two albums sit in the middle of the run, Between Us in 2019 and LIFTED in 2022.

I just let the song take me where it needs to go. It's just got to feel right.

hayden james to magnetic magazine, 22 september 2023

he builds records with other people more often than not. Foolproof, cut with Gorgon City and nat dunn, went out on future classic in 2021. We Could Be Love, made with AR/CO, arrived in 2023, and the remix package future classic put out on 21 may 2025 handed it to Franky Rizardo and Odd Mob among others.

the thread with Kormak runs across two records. Make It landed on future classic on 26 april 2024, and One I Want, with yeah boy alongside them, followed on 3 april 2026. For The Girls, made with bipolar sunshine, came on 26 june 2026.

his 2026 diary is busy and public. he plays beach house san diego for FNGRS CRSSD on 29 august 2026, joins Gorgon City at echostage in washington dc on 26 september 2026, and takes savaya bali on 31 october 2026. nothing in colorado is published.