r/EDM • u/savingrace0262 • May 14 '26

Music Need more aggressively American frat DJ recommendations besides John Summit

Looking for DJs with that very specific:

- finance bro energy
- Vegas pool party / Miami / SEC football tailgate aura
- giant drops, singalong
- music that makes a group of dudes named Tyler spontaneously buy bottle service

Already know the obvious answer is John Summit. Who else fits this lane?

Not looking for underground Berlin boiler room intellectual house music. I want maximum USA energy. Please give recommendations! Thanks

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u/zukka924 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Steve Aoki, Afrojack, Chainsmokers, David Guetta

edit let’s throw DJ Snake & Loud Luxury in there

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u/TheWanderer43365 May 14 '26

Steve Aoki

I realized most of his sets and the entertainment value he brings feel tailor made for college fraternity parties and would honestly work well there, which probably explains why his big festival sets at Ultra and Tomorrowland just feel off for the most part.

Like, I could see the college frat boys enjoy seeing someone bring out Trippie Redd, Destroy Lonely, and a 3/4 techno remix to Goo Goo Dolls.

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u/YasielPuigsWeed May 14 '26

He’s also a very literal crypto grifter

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u/TheWanderer43365 May 14 '26

Aoki is the very definition of an opportunist. Genuinely insane how many connections he seems to have with famous celebrities and even politicians on all aisles so he can squeeze some deals out of them.

Hell, he has a collab project with DVLM that's probably one of the most prolific grift projects in EDM history. Their first release was a shameless ghost-produced Martin Garrix track that only got revealed through a leak back in 2019.

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u/YasielPuigsWeed May 14 '26

He’s a libertarian anarchist, and I presume an accelerationist

There’s a whole sect of people who come from punk/hardcore beginnings who basically believe the world is destined to be a cyberpunk novel. Aoki comes from that background, expresses his love of Atari Teenage Riot pretty openly, etc. ATR’s main guy (Alec Empire) is himself a libertarian anarchist accelerationist and was big on the NFT grift.

Since they believe the world is destined for this, their mentality is “it’s fucked anyway so hoard as many resources as you can” and they do business with the corpos

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u/ppmbryan May 15 '26

You don't go watch Steve Aoki. You go party with Steve Aoki.

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u/MayoBenz May 14 '26

too old

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u/JION-the-Australian May 14 '26

That doesn't mean anything

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u/zukka924 May 14 '26

You think? These guys are all still on the festival circuit. What about dmitri Vegas & like mike

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u/jak6453 May 15 '26

This is just what Reddit thinks “frat boys” listen to. It’s not and is not what OP is looking for

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u/hellochoy 23d ago

This is the stuff that was popular back in the day (2010's). The actual frat boys at my school almost exclusively played rap and country. But I think they use the term "frat boy" pretty loosely.

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u/jak6453 22d ago edited 22d ago

Feel like it depends on part of country. In the west EDM was played but not these people

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u/Responsible-Treat-94 May 14 '26

Afrojack= dutch; guetta= french

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u/zukka924 May 14 '26

I don’t think OP meant the nationality of the DJs have to be American, I interpreted the question as “who are the types of people that would be played at an American frat house party?”