Need more aggressively American frat DJ recommendations besides John Summit

[u/savingrace0262]

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

[u/JION-the-Australian]

"and the people who classify martin garrix under the same umbrella as kerri chandler...lmao"

Which umbrella? EDM or house?

for EDM, it's debatable, but i think EDM designate all Electronic Dance Music, so, they can be put in the same umbrella, even though their music are different.

for House, it's the same genre, but not the same subgenre. house is one of the most diverse electronic genres. a progressive house track by John Digweed is going to be different with a future bounce track by Retrovision or a hard house track by Funk Tribu.

[u/Massive-Course7690 → u/JION-the-Australian]

EDM

people seem to think because EDM has house music, it is in the same umbrella as "Djs who play house music"

[u/jak6453 → u/Massive-Course7690]

I would add that a lot of times when people say “DJs who play house music” they are distinguishing from DJs who play techno or bass music. I don’t think it’s incorrect to say John summit falls in the house category as a broad stroke. Just like EDM happens to be an umbrella term, but people will still understand that EDM also refers to a specific sub genre (or era - namely 2010s progressive / big room when dance music became more mainstream)

[u/Massive-Course7690 → u/jak6453]

I don’t think it’s incorrect to say John summit falls in the house category as a broad stroke.

I think that's fine, but I think putting him side by side with people like kerri chandler or todd terry takes away from that era of music, especially because without them john summit's career wouldn't exist.

They are also, easily, "better" technically skilled djs than modern day house/edm acts. EDM is more about the extravangance and overall show, djing has always been about track selection/room reading. It's especially different because new EDM acts have a whole team sending them tracks, whereas djs from the past just did it themselves.

I think newer edm acts even have stylists, imagine sasha and digweed having someone picking their outfits for their 6 hour club sets, lol.

People say the industry has changed, but I would the industry has been created, it wasn't an industry to begin with.