Justin Jay

Justin Jay, also known as Justin Chernick and Justin Jay Chernick, is a Los Angeles–based artist associated with deep disco house and fidget house. He is credited under multiple name variations across releases, reflecting the way his work circulates in club-oriented dance music scenes where aliases and credit formats often shift between projects and platforms.

Jay’s recorded output is tied to house music with disco-leaning grooves as well as the sharper, more kinetic approach associated with fidget house. His catalog appears across a range of independent imprints, including Fantastic Voyage, Hot Meal Records, Clean Energy, raw., and Disorder, suggesting activity within label networks that prioritize DJ-focused singles and club-ready tracks. The available release trail indicates an artist working in the format typical of contemporary electronic music, where tracks and remixes are issued through a variety of outlets rather than concentrated in a single label discography.

An existing third-party note connected to his name also points to separate work as a photographer, and it cautions against confusing that credit with the DJ/producer identity. This distinction is relevant because “Justin Jay” can function as a shared or overlapping credit across different creative fields, and because electronic-music credits are frequently aggregated in ways that can blur separate careers. In the context of recorded dance music, the Justin Jay associated with deep disco house and fidget house is the DJ/producer credited as Justin Jay and, at times, under his full name.