There are places where most Christians don't expect to find God. A rave is one of them. Topher Jones found Him there anyway.
Known professionally as King Topher, Jones built a decade-long career as a mainstream electronic dance music producer and DJ - drawn in as a teenager by the big beats, house energy, and impactful drops of EDM. "I knew this is what I was made for," he has said. Along the way, he racked up over 200 million Spotify streams, landed tracks on the Billboard Dance Top 25 and U.S. Dance Radio Top 20, and earned support from global heavyweights like Diplo, Tiësto, John Summit, Chris Lake, and Kaskade. He performed at Tomorrowland - the world's largest dance music festival - and built major label relationships at Republic, Interscope, Atlantic, and Spinnin' Records.
By every measure of the EDM world, he had made it. But something else was pulling at him.
Growing up in the church, Jones had always carried his faith - but at a certain point, he knew he had to make it truly his own. "I had a conversation with myself where I really need to take this stuff seriously and make it mine, not because my family goes to church, or culture tells me to," he shared. That decision eventually led him to step out of the secular EDM lane entirely and into something that had never been done at this scale before.
What began as a prayer call for the music industry in 2018 evolved into Rave Jesus - a bold project blending faith and dance music at festival level. The heart behind it is simple: to create music that captures the presence of God and puts it to dance music, releasing worship in places where people least expect it.
His debut album I Met God on the Dancefloor, released November 14, 2025, features transformative remixes of worship anthems by Brandon Lake and Elevation Worship - including high-octane versions of "That's Who I Praise," "Gratitude," and "Hard Fought Hallelujah" - alongside original songs with collaborators including Grace Binion, SON., and Latin pop star Thalía.
The theology behind it is straightforward. As Jones puts it: "The Lord created all the sounds that exist. So if He created them, all of them should be used to worship and glorify Him. That includes Dance Music." And the results have backed that conviction - the album launch was followed by a U.S. headline tour after multiple sold-out shows in Los Angeles, Dallas, Las Vegas, and London.
"We have the ability to shape culture, as Christians, way more than people realize, and we actually need to take ownership in it," Jones has said. For the festival-goers, club regulars, and Gen Z listeners who've never stepped inside a church - but who are still searching for something real - Rave Jesus is proof that worship doesn't need a sanctuary. Sometimes all it needs is a speaker stack and a willing heart.
I Met God on the Dancefloor is available now on all streaming platforms.
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