IndustryStandard Think as America is so vast and competitive, it’s hard for them to form tribal groups of close knot friends like in the UK
It is tougher over here. And people move so often. Moving also isn’t the same as in the UK as the distances are far. I have friends in Cape Cod, LA, New Orleans, New York, Boston, all over the place. One ends up moving from social group to social group depending n where you live. Making friends here is easy, but long-standing friends aren’t nearly as common.
S&D were always big here, too. Much of it being them championing local artists which a lot of big European DJs never did. Jondi & Spesh, the Hardkiss brothers, Aquatherium, a ton of West Coast/SF sound like Halo, Tony, DJ Garth. They didn’t just here to DJ, they took part of this scene with them wherever they went.