While everyone knows who deadmau5 and Marshmello is, there’s tons of lesser known side projects and alter aliases in the EDM community. While many artists tie their artist name to one particular sub-genre, artists have branched out to different lesser known aliases to share their creative abilities. Here are some of our favorite and lesser known side projects you may not know of. If any of these did catch you off guard, be sure to comment on our Facebook post with your findings.
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Deadmau5 is testpilot and was in BSOD with Steve Duda
Seven Lions is DJ SVEN
is GAIA
W&W are NWYR
Feed Me is Seventh Stitch and Spor
Porter Robinson is Virtual Self, Ekowraith, and was in Spoon U with Dillon Francis
KSHMR was part of THE CATARACS
D-Sturb was in Pitchback
Eli Brown was in Loadstar
Kenny Beats was in LOUDPVCK
Zonderling is in Noisia
1 of the members of Miike Snow and Style of Eye are now Galantis
Getter is Terror Reid
Emperor is Monuman
Gryffin was in White Panda
Kölsch is Rune RUK
Swardy and Luttrell are The M Machine
Da Tweekaz is Tweekacore
Slushii is sapientdream
Lido is Trippy Turtle
Avicii was also Tom Hangs
Ewun is Kill The Noise
Bro Safari was in Evol Intent
Brohug is John Dahlback and the Lunde Bros
Nitti Gritti and Party Favor are now Sidepiece
Hardwell and Julian Calor were Magnomite
Axwell is in , Axwell Λ Ingrosso, Supermode, Sunfreakz, AxEr, and Aguelando
MEDUZA is made up of members that performed as Simon De Jano and Madwill
Quentyn was in Volt & State
Oliver Heldens is Hi-Lo
Dan and Alana from Nero are in The Night
David Guetta is Jack Back
Brillz was in LSDream
Noisia and Foreign Beggars are in I Am Legion
Dillon Francis and Kill The Noise are Meowski666
Dillon Francis is DJ Hanzel
Markus Schulz is Unicorn Slayer
Afrojack is NLW
Myon & Shane 54 are Velvetine
used to be in Dash Berlin
Rainman was in Krewella
TyDi is Wish I Was
Fawks was i_o
Calvin Harris is Love Regenerator
Tritonal is PRAANA (rumor)
Vini Vici were in Sesto Sento
Michael Woods is OFFAIAH
Shapov was in Hard Rock Sofa
Maor Levi, Emma Hewitt, and Ilan Bluestone are Elysian