This weekend, the producer releases a new track and plays gigs at DC10 in Ibiza and Reading Festival and Creamfields in his native U. K.
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Riordon grew up on the South Coast of England, with performance always part of his life. As a kid he had roles in traveling productions of shows including Oliver.
and planned to attend drama school with the goal of working in film and television. But when the pandemic hit and schools went virtual, his plans shifted too. Recalling a glorious party moment when he’d grabbed the aux cord, played MK’s 1993 track “Burning” and watched the room go crazy, he was interested in making dance music.
As the world shut down during COVID, “I ended up going all-in,” he says. “With acting, it’s hard to sit at home during COVID and take career steps, whereas with music I could actually make something happen for myself just from being at home and making tunes.”.
He was simultaneously working at an influencer marketing company that works with musicians and record labels to get their music on TikTok. The gig was serendipitous, “Because I was essentially studying TikTok for my job every day,” he says.
In February of 2022, he quit the job to fully focus on music. His mom was supportive, his dad was less enthusiastic, but both could see that he treated his goal like a real career, living off his savings and working 9-to-5 and into the evenings to make something happen.
Up until that point, Riordon had been releasing a lot of Latin house songs, finding them “easy to make.” While these tracks were streaming fairly well, “it wasn’t the sound I wanted to be pursuing.”.
His life during this period “was basically rinse and repeat,” he says, “making music, promoting it on TikTok and on socials, putting it out and trying to grow each record from the next.” Then, the person who’d become his manager reached out via TikTok, and they made an inspiring trip to Miami Music Week 2023.
Then came the Coachella afterparty gig. A voyage to Chicago’s ARC Music Festival in September of 2023 confirmed that he wanted to pursue house and tech house, an instinct that proved correct when his November 2023 track “Needle on the Record” got signed to Gorgon City’s Realm Records, got rinsed by “DJs I looked up to,” and hit No.
Why Riordon Is an Up-and-Coming Dance Artist.
From here, the momentum ramped up significantly. In November of 2024, Riordon appeared with Gorgon City during their set at the U. K.’s hallowed Drumsheds to play “Needle on the Record,” toured and released music consistently during 2025 and continued putting numbers on the board this year.
He says his February Raw Cuts performance with Silva Bumpa in New York felt particularly massive — and last month, he sold out the city’s Knockdown Center. “I love the New York crowd,” he says.
With a few Coachella sets already under belt, his goal now is to secure “a big spot in the Sahara tent, hopefully maybe in a year or two.” In the meantime, he plays the fashionable Solid Grooves party at DC10 in Ibiza tonight (Aug.
27) ,the U. K.’s Reading Festival (where he had one of his early formative raving experiences as a teenager) tomorrow and the esteemed Creamfields festival on Saturday, with additional festival and headlining sets across Europe, the U.
S. and New Zealand booked through the end of the year.
Given that both of his parents grew up raving, they’ve been in the front row for many recent Riordon shows, with his dad flying to Chicago for his set at Lollapalooza earlier this month and his mom making at least one trip to Ibiza with him every summer.
He says one of the major perks of playing out is just that it gives him and his family and friends a reason to get together.
Riordon’s breakthrough song, released by Gorgon City’s Realm Records in November of 2023.
Released by Insomniac Records in April of 2025, “TWOSTEP” is Riordon’s highest-streaming song to date.
Made with Aluna, Danny P and Caleb Laurenson, Riordon’s most recent release is a fresh take on AlunaGeorge’s “Best Be Believing.”.
As his shows get bigger, Riordon and his team are building out a bigger live show to match. “Going into the new year, we’re looking at the cities and venues where we can bring a proper Riordon party — production, lights, we’re getting visuals made.
We’re really thinking about the show as a whole and trying to put on an experience for people that’s more than just me plugging in in a dark room.”.
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