Who Excision is
Jeffrey Travis "Jeff" Abel (born 29 April 1986), better known by his stage name Excision, is a Canadian DJ and electronic dance music producer. He is the founder of Rottun Recordings and Subsidia Records. Active since 2006, his first release, "Warning", was in 2007. He released an annual "Shambhala" mix album in the third quarter of each year until 2016. He started his own music festival (Lost Lands) the following year and releases annual mixes. He is known for his tours with immense sound systems and huge visual productions. Abel founded the record label Destroid Music. Upon its debut, Destroid released a full-length digital album titled The Invasion. The majority of tracks on the album were produced by Excision, with collaborations with other artists such as Downlink, Space Laces, Far Too Loud, Bassnectar and Ajapai. Destroid is a dubstep supergroup and Ableton Live band consisting of Excision, Downlink and KJ Sawka. Destroid is well known for their futuristic robot suits, heavy apocalyptic sounds, and visual productions and MIDI instrument use.
Biography from the Excision article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Excision, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
2 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 1.5M in the week of Aug 10, 2026.
Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in bass, and the biggest names from Canada.
Excision in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Excision have?
Excision has 1,400,000 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Aug 17, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Excision's world ranking?
Excision is ranked #324 of 1214 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Excision from?
Excision is from Canada, where they rank #10 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Excision make?
Excision is categorised as Bass in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as dubstep, riddim, deathstep, edm.
Snapshot from the week of Aug 17, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.