Riordon knew he was on to something when he was first asked to play Coachella 2023. But the request didn’t come through an agent or manager, and the performance wasn’t actually at the festival.
“I had this millionaire reach out to me on TikTok” Riordon says. “He was like, ‘Yo, I throw the craziest Coachella afters every year. I’ll fly you out if you want to come be the resident DJ for the weekend.”
It was the U.K. producer’s first big gig. “I hadn’t even put out any like full sets at that point,” he recalls. “He just told me that he likes seeing young people grinding, and he could…
