FISHER
Paul Nicholas Fisher is an Australian DJ-producer who traded a professional surfing career for house music, breaking through in 2018 with the fuzzed-out bassline anthem "Losing It," a Grammy-nominated, platinum-certified crossover hit. Raised on the Gold Coast by a mother who ran after-hours parties while he slept before dawn surf sessions, he built a maximalist, festival-scaled strain of tech house that turns underground DJ tools into mainstage singalongs.
FISHER's mother played Carl Cox records around the house, and Cox's raw, marathon DJ sets — caught live at the Big Day Out festival when FISHER was a teenager — set the template for his own high-energy, groove-driven mixing.
listen forThe percolating acid bassline and stripped-back breakbeat of Cox's early rave records is the same DNA driving FISHER's tracks: a simple, hypnotic low end built to move a whole festival field at once.
Erick Morillo was the first DJ FISHER ever saw play live, at Big Day Out — a formative jolt that hooked him on house music right as he was choosing between surfing and DJing full-time.
listen forThe bright, vocal-hook-driven house of Morillo's Reel 2 Real productions — a dancefloor track built around one irresistible, endlessly repeated phrase — is echoed in how FISHER constructs his own tracks around a single infectious vocal snippet.
FISHER has named Green Velvet among the DJs whose records shaped his ear, and the bigger, weirder, more maximal spin FISHER puts on house is a direct descendant of Green Velvet's theatrical, distorted take on the same Chicago tradition.
listen forListen for the same trick in both artists: a stripped, punishing low end wrapped around one deranged vocal hook, engineered to sound huge on a festival rig rather than a small club system.