Just Her is the kind of artist who makes music for the moment right before you cry and don’t know why. The Leicester-born, Brighton-based DJ and producer has spent the better part of two decades building a career defined not by trends chased, but by staying true to her vision and moving forward with intention.
With releases and remixes on Anjunadeep, Selador, Crosstown Rebels, Global Underground, Armada, This Never Happened, her own label Constant Circles and a Master in Music Production she has built her reputation in a steady way.
Before the bookings, before the label, before the degree… there was a bedroom in Leicester and a girl recording DIY radio shows for an audience of no one. Just Her grew up obsessed with electronic music, channelling it in whatever way she could before she was old enough to experience it properly. When that moment came, it arrived with force.
“I went to Pacha in Ibiza and I was standing at the back of the decks watching Roger Sanchez play on three or four decks. I was just like — this is amazing. And I need to create these moments on the dance floor myself.”
— Just Her
She learned to DJ the old school way: vinyl first, then CDJs at the moment CDJs were just starting to appear. Leicester, she is quick to point out, had a genuinely strong club scene at the time, and she built her early craft through a residency there before following a collective of DJs around the country, absorbing everything she could. When the scene in Leicester wound down, she moved to Brighton, a city she has now called home for ten years and that has given her the space to grow into everything she has become.
The production came later, and deliberately. She went to university, quite late in her career, she acknowledges — to take a gamble on a production degree, knowing that making music was the only way to keep the momentum going long term. It paid off.
Ten years ago, Just Her launched Constant Circles, a label with a philosophy baked into its name. Everything in music moves in cycles: sounds come back, scenes evolve, the past and the present bleed into each other. The label exists to honour that idea, while also doing something genuinely unusual: treating visual art as an equal creative partner to the music.
Constant Circles signs visual artists alongside musicians. Some releases are paired with existing artwork; others see a visual artist commissioned to respond directly to the music and create something that conceptualises it. Physical copies of the artwork are made, and the label has staged two art exhibitions – one in Brighton, one in London, where the art is displayed and the music is played together.
After a hiatus following the arrival of an actual baby four years ago, the label relaunched last year. Asked what advice she would give to anyone starting a label today, her answer is consistent with everything else about her approach.
“Stay true to the sounds and the aesthetics that you believe in, and try not to follow trends. If you’re really passionate about what you do and you just stick to it, your audience should find you. If you’re chasing trends, you’re going to get lost in that noise.”
— Just Her
Just Her recently spoke on a panel at IMS about hate speech and the realities of being an artist online. It is, she says, one of the genuinely difficult parts of the job. Rejection is the other. The act of putting art into the world is an act of exposure, and not everyone will respond to it, because art is subjective and the music industry is saturated. Building the resilience to absorb that without letting it erode your sense of direction takes years.
But then there are the dance floor moments, and those make everything else irrelevant. She describes playing an opening night set at Warm Up in London — three hours, a locked-in crowd, the energy building and reflecting back and spiralling until she found herself in tears in the booth. It is the experience that drives everything else she does.
“When I’m making tunes in the studio I’m almost visualising myself playing them on the dance floor and having those moments. It runs through everything that I do.”
— Just Her
Ask Just Her about AI and she does not pretend to be relaxed about it. She is scared, she says plainly. But she is also hopeful — and her reasoning is grounded in something that feels fundamental to why her music works in the first place.
“I don’t feel like it can ever really recreate that human emotion element of music. It can’t replicate music that comes from your soul — it’s never going to have a soul. I’m hoping we can get it doing the things we don’t want to do, while we make the art.”
— Just Her
She uses tools: stem creators, production plugins but draws a clear line at platforms that generate music wholesale. The hope she returns to is the same one shared by most artists navigating this moment: that AI becomes infrastructure for creativity rather than a replacement for it.
Two decades in, Just Her is still moving forward on the same terms she always has. Create music from the heart and feelings first. The rest follows.