Jason Ross

American DJ and producer Jason Ross first registered on club dancefloors through his anthemic trance and progressive house productions, yet his approach has shifted over time to embrace dubstep pulses alongside pop singing. Major attention arrived in the mid-2010s once the trance collective Above & Beyond began supporting his tracks and then issuing them on their Anjunabeats imprint. Toward the close of the decade he turned toward tighter, bass-driven material, and his debut full-length 1000 Faces, released in 2020, collected big-room house and melodic dubstep cuts that spotlighted multiple guest vocalists. Collaborations have included melodic house artist Gryffin on the 2021 single “After You” and multi-genre producer Seven Lions on the 2022 release See You Again.

Ross grew up in Minnesota and received jazz and classical instruction throughout much of his youth. At age 12 he encountered pieces such as ATB’s “’Til I Come” and Darude’s “Sandstorm,” an experience that redirected his musical preferences; the exposure proved so decisive that he completed his first album before the year ended, even though the project never received an official release. He later relocated to attend San Diego State University, where he began establishing himself on the regional club circuit and secured a residency at Fluxx. His initial proper single, “Nightfall,” appeared on Mondo Records in 2013, yet the decisive breakthrough came in early 2014 with “Burma” on Monster Tunes; the track received three consecutive weeks of support on Above & Beyond’s widely followed Group Therapy podcast, notable because the show seldom airs material from outside the Anjunabeats roster. Shortly afterward the label’s A&R representative reached out to request additional tracks, leading Ross to become an Anjunabeats artist and the imprint’s first signing in more than two years. Numerous singles followed on the label, among them “Elements,” “Cairo,” and “Valor,” and he compiled the 2016 edition of Anjunabeats Worldwide 06.

The 2017 collaboration “Higher Love” with Seven Lions surfaced on Anjunabeats, after which Ross issued “Ocean” in 2018 on Seven Lions’ Ophelia label. He continued to deliver trance-oriented work such as the 2019 Rooms EP on Anjunabeats, while his Ophelia output often merged dubstep and future bass elements with pop vocals. His debut album 1000 Faces arrived on Ophelia in early 2020 and featured singers Dia Frampton, Melanie Fontana, and Emilie Brandt. Later that year he assembled a volume in the 20 Years of Anjunabeats series. In 2021 Ross released the Convergence EP together with the Gryffin collaboration “After You,” which reached the Top 20 of Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. The two-track EP See You Again with Seven Lions appeared in early 2022. Ahead of his second Ophelia album he issued the singles “Hate This Kind of Love” featuring HOLT and “Take You Home” with Dia Frampton.