Jem Haynes is a British DJ, producer and mix engineer from Wandsworth, South London. He said so himself in a February 2011 Ibiza Spotlight interview: “I'm from Wandsworth in South London.” The civil name published here is the one he works under. He is not framed as a UK breakbeat artist from the 2000s onward. The longer career is club music in a wide sense — house, tech house and international DJ work — with a strong recent turn into breakbeat and UK bass.
The central DJ fact is the nine-year residency for We Love at Space Ibiza. Resident Advisor and Beatport both record that run; his own professional listing dates it June 2005 to September 2014, as a main-room resident. RA has also placed him among the DJs who played Space most often (seventh on that count). Weekly sets there sat beside Carl Craig, Derrick May, Jeff Mills, Joris Voorn, Disclosure and Paul Woolford. RA further documents club dates at Ministry of Sound, Fabric, Back to Basics, Sankeys and The Warehouse Project, and work outside the UK in China, South Korea, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
BBC Radio 1 support is on the record. RA notes that Anja Schneider named him Artist to watch in 2017 on Pete Tong's show. Productions have also been backed by Pete Tong, Skream, Anja Schneider and Sister Bliss.
The mid-2010s catalogue is house and tech house, not breaks. Beatport files 2016–2017 titles such as Quest, All The Time, and Steep and Around with SOAME as Tech House. Colour Series, Leena Music and Phonetic Recordings sit in that older label trail; Beatport's artist text also presents Colour Series as a label he launched.
An earlier alias, Funkaholics, dates to his teens. Beatport records that the Kepler edit of Hype It Up became a floor record in 2025, with support from Chris Stussy, Rossi, Ben UFO and Joy Orbison.
The current breaks chapter opens clearly with Stanton Warriors. Gonna Be, on Punks (13 September 2024, PUNKS181), is filed as Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass at 128 BPM. Beatport states it reached number one on the store and counts it among a run of six collaborations with the duo. Heaven followed on the same imprint on 24 January 2025 (PUNKS183), again as Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass.
From the second half of 2025 the other main run is with Dominic B UK on Rebel Bass: Find Me, Sleepless Nights, Ashei and Like That, all filed as Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass. Find Me (1 August 2025 on Beatport) appeared in Beatport's Top Streamed Tracks 2025: Breaks / UK Bass. Shazam credits for Find Me, Ashei and Like That list Dominic Butler and Jem Haynes as performers, writers and producers — joint production, not a featured-name credit. BeatStats has shown Find Me as his strongest recent original in the genre, ahead of Sleepless Nights, Like That and Ashei.
Mix engineering is a public part of the job, not a footnote. Beatport states that in 2025 he mixed Faithless's Champion Sound and played the album launch. The same year Life Is A Melody, with Faithless and Grammy-winning vocalist Jinadu, drew BBC Radio 1 support. Professional listings style him as music producer, mixing engineer and DJ.
In 2026 he remains fully active. WeZ WhaTevR's I WANNA (Jem Haynes Remix) came out on DIRTY KITCHEN RAVE on 2 July 2026, filed as Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass at 132 BPM. Club, production, collaborations and studio work continue in parallel.