12 of the best DJ movie cameos

The concept of a DJ as a celebrity figure may have lost its novelty ways into the rise of EDM phenomena, but seeing our favorite disc jockeys go from dark clubs to front-and-center on the silver screen still feels a bit like seeing a fish out of water – some more so than others.

Choosing to forget We Are Your Friends and instead celebrating classics like Human Traffic and cameos you might have forgotten about, we've compiled a list of the most memorable and giggle-inducing spotlights on DJs that have made their ways to the film and television world.

If you blink, you really might miss Seth Troxler's uber brief cameo in the trailer for Point Break. The 2015 action flick follows a clique of extreme, Robin Hood-inspired athletes that travel around the world using their sport skills to pull off major heists.

The adventure sees the team end up on a boat party where, apparently, Seth Troxler is also roaming around and enjoying. At 1:05, see if you can spot the producer dancing off in his own zone.

On the total opposite end of the musical spectrum, Steve Aoki also provided a track called 'The Power of Now' to the film's soundtrack. In addition, Aoki makes an appearance as himself during a party scene and finds time to - you guessed it - toss a cake in an attendees face.

Indie British-Irish film Human Traffic was released in 1999 as a comic commentary on life as a young adult and experiencing the party circuit and all the hedonism that comes along with it. As the character crew makes their way out to the fictional Asylum Nightclub, the manager of the club – played by the one and only Carl Cox – makes an appearance.

Human Traffic also gives a subtle nod to its musical advisor Pete Tong who, although doesn't make a physical appearance, is heard on the radio in Jip's car.

In 2000, the dance music community received Groove, a Greg Harrison film that focused on the underground rave world in San Francisco, California.

Released in the same time frame as Human Traffic, Groove offered its own Stateside take on the then bubbling realm of electronic music.

Of course, a tale about a rave wouldn't be complete without a figurehead to properly represent, and Groove didn't disappoint. During the final scene of the film, John Digweed appears as himself and delivers a line and a massive track called 'Heaven Scent'.

Famous for the above scene and line ("I AM Korben Dallas!") in Fifth Element, Tricky made his film debut in the 1997 science fiction movie as the character Right Arm. Known more often for his work with Massive Attack and later as a prominent solo influence in the late 90s, Tricky returned to for another on-screen appearance later for a film called Clean (2004).

Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.) doubles as superhero Iron Man, and in the sequel film released in 2010, he finds himself facing his friend Lt. Rhodey who breaks up a party to fight him. And when a man in a giant metal robot suit tells you to get out, you leave.

While the rest of the party scatters, the house party DJ remains stuck behind his booth. As it turns out, the party must've been quite the place to be that night as the late DJ AM appears from behind his laptop when Stark requests a song. As demanded, he appropriately plays a mash-up of 'Another One Bites the Dust', Daft Punk's 'Robot Rock' and 'It Takes Two' as they battle it out.

Lucas MacFadden, better known as Cut Chemist, is mostly famous for his stint in Jurassic 5 or through his solo career as a producer.

The more observant of fans might have caught his cameo appearance in 2007's Juno. Cut Chemist appears as the chemistry teacher – an appreciated tip of the hat to his moniker – and even more, is placed ever so strategically between two spitting images of his very own logo, which is a pair of scissors above a round-bottom flask.

French standout Cut Killer made his film debut in cult favorite La Haine, a black-and-white drama released in 1995.

A juggernaut in the French hip hop genre, Hajoui's most memorable scene in the La Haine (Hate, in English) saw him take to the decks and drop a powerful 'Nique La Police' ('Fuck the Police') at a peak moment of the movie.

Cut Killer continued to intertwine his music with the cinema with later soundtrack contributions to Gamer, The Dancer and complete scores for a number of French films.

It's no surprise that Entourage (the movie) ended up being a star-studded affair with appearances from celebrities all across the board like Mark Wahlberg and UFC fighter Ronda Rousey. Calvin Harris made the cut as the DJ representative in a fictional movie that main character Vince Chase (played by Adrian Grenier) both directs and stars in.

Calvin lacks any lines in the movie, and instead just provides a few silent, dramatic steely-faced shots seen in the trailer above.

It's only right that Diplo was the DJ of choice for the stereotypically rowdy 'spring break' scene in 22 Jump Street with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill enlisted as the film's undercover cop main characters. Thankfully, in case you didn't already know it was Diplo, he appears wearing a bro tank with his own name emblazoned on it. EDM fit for the tannest, neon-clad bros blares as partygoers jump up and down while Channing Tatum fights off a villain using a drunk woman as a weapon. Yup.

In the '99 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, Goldie made an appearance as Mr. Bullion, the daunting looking main henchman to Valentin Zukovsky, the Russian mafia leader. Spoiler alert: while Goldie might seem like the right hand man to Zukovsky, he later crosses his supposed boss by working alongside Elektra King, the film's main antagonist, which later gets him shot down by his former leader.

Less of cameos and more full-on starring roles, Ansel Elgort has established his name as an actor on the same timeline as his DJ alias Ansolo, which both began to pick up steam in 2014.

After making a brief, but secondary actor debut in Carrie (2013), Elgort broke through when he played Caleb in the highly publicized book-gone-movie-series Divergent. Soon after, he was picked up to play the lead male role in The Fault In Our Stars, another film adaptation of an extremely popular young adult romance novel by the same name.

The Fault In Our Stars is - as most teen-oriented romance stories are - a sickly sweet tale as Elgort plays a love interest opposite a teenager cancer patient played by Shailene Woodley (who also starred in Divergent).

In 2016, it was announced that Elgort will star in a remake of the Billionaire Boys Club film alongside Kevin Spacey and Emma Roberts and has since signed to Island Records and played at Ultra Music Festival, ADE and more as Ansolo.

It's impossible to think of Disney's TRON: Legacy and not visualize the robots in a setting that seemed to be tailored just for them.

The 2010 release was aglow with futuristic, neon-lined outfits and backdrops. In the clip above, Castor exits the scene as an ominous soundtrack plays in the background. Before leaving, he calls to the instantly recognizable Daft Punk duo and demands them to "change the mood, electrify the boys and girls".

The robots' cameo is an obvious tip of the hat to their musical involvement in the Disney film, which marked the first film score made entirely by the legendary French duo.

Valerie Lee is Mixmag's US Digital Editor and is still waiting for her big break as a movie extra. Follow her on Twitter here