John Summit is heading to the Macrodata Refinement department.Ad 0:00 Click for sound 0:00 / 0:00 Ahead of a North American arena tour, the dance music superstar announced plans to transform its venues with a stage production drawing creative inspiration from the hit Apple TV+ series Severance.
Summit revealed the plans in a panel for the ‘Spotify Beach’ event during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France, where he appeared alongside artists, brand executives and Spotify leaders to discuss the cultural influence of fandoms.The panel also featured chart-topping South Korean artist EJAE, LinkedIn Chief Brand Officer Heather Freeland and Gap Global CMO Faby Torres, as well as Spotify’s Head of Creative Lab Kay Hsu and Head of Artist Partnerships Ashley Graver.
Summit’s upcoming ‘CTRL ESCAPE’ tour comprises 20 dates and is scheduled to kick off October 1 at the State Farm Center in Champaign, Illinois, the college town where he studied accounting before launching a career in the field.The tour takes its name from his sophomore album, which dropped on Tax Day, effectively turning the date he once dreaded into a celebration of the career that replaced it.
The DJ said his team is developing custom set design rooted in the signature Severance aesthetic of sterile cubicles and fluorescent-lit office bureaucracy.“I’m going to bring the corporate cubicle kind of lifestyle to the stage,” Summit said.
“It’s kind of like a Severance-type vibe, but turning these arenas into giant corporate offices and also a rave.” The scale of the production, he noted, is made possible by the size of the venues themselves: “It’s going to be something super special that you can’t do at a traditional nightclub.” Scroll to continue more from edm France Selects Daft Punk’s ‘One More Time’ as Official 2026 World Cup Goal Song Check o...