Music
The other language I think in
Music isn't a hobby I picked up to be interesting at dinner. It has run in parallel with everything else for years — the same instinct that makes a business work, operating without words.
Why I make music
It answers a question business can't
Business rewards patience. Music doesn't. You make a call, and four hundred people answer within a few seconds — with their feet, not their opinions. That's a kind of honesty you can't get in a boardroom.
It also keeps me a beginner at something. Playing guitar in front of a crowd is a reliable way to stay humble, and being humble at one thing tends to make you better at the rest.
And it's social in the way I like: a set is just a room full of people agreeing to be somewhere together. That's the same thing I'm doing when I put a dinner together.
Four hundred people answer within a few seconds — with their feet, not their opinions.
Performance · Original music
DJ Jordan Miller
DJ sets with live guitar over the top — and a country-EDM lane that started as an experiment and stuck.
The performing side covers clubs, festivals, private events and corporate stages. The format shifts with the room: sometimes it's a straight set, sometimes it's a set with a guitar strapped on, sometimes it's built entirely around one crowd and never played again.
Country EDM is the thread I keep pulling. Texas gave me the first half of that and dance music gave me the second, and the overlap is more natural live than it looks written down.
Booking, rider, press kit, mixes and full performance history live on the artist site rather than here.
- Formats
- DJ set · DJ + live guitar · Hybrid
- Rooms
- Clubs · Festivals · Private · Corporate
- Sound
- Country EDM and its neighbours
- Booking
- Handled on the artist site
Live duo · DJ + electric guitar
Mixmode
A hybrid duo: my DJ set underneath, Kristian Cruz playing live electric guitar over the top of it.
Mixmode is two performers, not one. I DJ and produce; Kristian Cruz plays the live electric guitar. The guitar is his, not mine — that distinction matters, because the whole point of the format is that it is genuinely live rather than a backing track with a prop.
It works because a guitar can answer a room faster than a track change can. Sets get rebuilt around whatever the crowd is doing, and no two nights come out the same.
- Format
- DJ set + live electric guitar
- Line-up
- Jordan Miller (DJ) · Kristian Cruz (guitar)
- Rooms
- Clubs · Festivals · Private events
Photography
Rooms, late light, loud rooms
Years behind the decks
Projects: solo and duo
Continents played
Selected work
The rooms, the formats, and the work that comes out of them.
Where the music has taken me
- 01
TouringRuns across the US and abroad, built around the rooms rather than the map.
- 02
FestivalsOutdoor stages, late light, no ceiling — still the best format there is.
- 03
Clubs and residenciesThe rooms where you learn to read a crowd properly.
- 04
Private and corporateWeddings, brand nights, rooms that need reading fast.
- 05
Original musicCountry-EDM edits and originals, produced between shows.
- 06
MixmodeThe hybrid set, with Kristian Cruz on live guitar.
Listen and watch
Streaming
Originals and edits — links land here as they release.
Mixes
Recorded sets, including the country-EDM ones.
Video
Set footage, crowd shots and Mixmode live guitar moments.