Chris Lake on Tour

Considering how many global dance-floor hits Chris Lake has produced since the early ’00s, hearing one of his productions mixed into another DJ’s set is no surprise at a large-scale electronic music festival. But hearing Lake drop his own tracks at one of his performances means hearing the man behind some of the biggest house music hits of the millennium enact the grooves the way he envisioned them from the outset. At EDC Orlando in 2019, Lake dropped a furious spin on Florence and the Machine’s “You’ve Got the Love” intertwined with his own track “I Want You,” and the a cappella vocal floated masterfully over the thumping bass like it never had before. The man just knows how to craft dance-floor bangers, and with a gargantuan discography of recognizable singles — including official remixes for everyone from Calvin Harris to Missy Elliott — it’s a vibrant guessing game as to which will show up in any of his expertly crafted sets. Lake is a fixture on the international EDM festival circuit, with recent stops at Tomorrowland, EDC Las Vegas, Ultra and more. He’s been a resident at Ibiza and tours extensively to clubs in North America. And one thing is for certain: No two sets are the same.

Chris Lake in Concert

Hailing from Norwich, England, Chris Lake first emerged on the dance music circuit in the early ’00s, making guerilla remixes of well-known tracks that found their way to European clubs. By 2009, Lake and his growing catalog of productions made their way to American dance clubs as he clocked multiple Billboard dance chart Top 10 hits like “Only One,” “If You Knew” and “Changes.” He notched a 2012 Grammy nomination working alongside Deadmau5 on the 4×4=12 album, collaborated closely with Skrillex on selecting the tracks for the OWSLA label compilation (HOWSLA, which also hit No. 1 on Billboard’s electronic chart) and currently operates his own boutique electronic music label, Black Book Records.