To listen to Billy Gillies is to capture true joy, because every song he produces and DJ set he performs radiates pure passion and vibrant spirit.

 

The Northern Irishman’s blend of quirky Eurodance synths, uplifting trance grandeur and hard-hitting bass rhythms goes beyond catchy melodies and expert timing, as breakout hits “Lagoon” and “Youth” tap into the very essence of what makes a night spent on the dancefloor with your best mates such a special experience.

 

That’s why he’s earned more than 145 million views on TikTok, filled a Creamfields tent with thousands of ravers at 1 p.m. on a Sunday, and why he’s managed to get an official remix of Madison Avenue’s 1999 hit “Don’t Call Me Baby” after ripping the iconic vocal off the internet.

 

Crowds chant his name from Taiwan to Texas because Billy Gillies dares to do something different; something unique to himself. Now, Billy Gillies is the next superstar-DJ-in-the-making, poised to take over the world.

 

Billy’s musical obsession started in the 2000s when his older sister started buying Clubland compilation CDs and dating a local DJ. One night, the boyfriend came over and brought his decks, but when the couple left to go dancing, 11-year-old Billy snuck into his sister’s room and started playing with the turntables.

 

“I was like, ‘what is this music? I love this,’” he laughs. “On the Christmas list for that year was a set of decks.”

 

His mom delivered with his first set of Kam belt drives, and Billy’s been mad for mixing ever since. Each Saturday, he’d head out of the house with a five Pound note and spend it on a new record (Tiesto’s Traffic being particularly influential). In turn, he’d spend the next week learning to mix that record in and out of his steadily growing collection.

 

When he was 17, he got his first taste of true Clubland. A year underaged, he caught an hour-long bus from Belfast to Banbridge and talked his way into a club called Coach. Japanese DJ Yoji Biomehanika and the UK’s own Lisa Lashes dropped heavy hard-house records all night, and Billy started dreaming of his own chance to rock a crowd, proper.

 

He knew that if he wanted to be an in-demand DJ, he’d have to come up with some original songs. In 2011, he locked himself in his bedroom with a copy of Ableton Live and didn’t come out until he’d mastered the basic trance sound.

 

He fell in love with music production and started sending his tracks to BBC Radio 1 DJ Judge Jules, who played them on his show every Friday night. For 19-year-old Billy, there was nothing better.

 

After spending much of his 20s as a self-described “party animal,” 28-year-old Billy once again locked himself inside his bedroom and churned out a ton of original tunes. The result? A spot on the lineup of Luminosity 2019 alongside major trance legends Paul Van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Gareth Emery and more. He played a set of all-original material, and when a recording was posted to Soundcloud, it earned more plays than any of the headliners.

 

“I’d brung a fresh sound into the trance scene,” Gillies says. “Everyone was making the same type of thing, where I just look back at my influences growing up and crammed it into the main trance style.”

 

International booking requests flooded in, sending him to Argentina to Australia—and then COVID struck. Many of his peers saw no point releasing music to a locked-down crowd, but Billy saw a chance to experiment.

 

“People need music in hard times, not just for clubs,” he says. “The music I was making around that time was proper emotional melodies, and it was resonating with everyone.”

 

He’d share each tune in a rough clip to Facebook or TikTok, and every post brought shares in the thousands. His fan base wasn’t just growing, it was ballooning, due in part not only to his masterful skills in the studio but also his effervescent personality that spills into each tune.

Producer/DJ - Free The Mind Recordings & Mastaplan

SoundCity Festival - Artist liaison
Bass  Oddessy Stage - Co-Manager

On a mission sorting through the freshest releases finding you the latest bangers blended together with more bangers and plenty of double drops

Follow my official playlist: https://c.alokmusic.com/spotplaylist/thisisalok

Shows:
Brazil - contact@alokmusic.com
Europe - Tom Schroeder tom.schroeder@teamwass.com / Nick Matthews nick.matthews@teamwass.com
North & South America - Rob Markus:  rmarkus@wmeagency.com / Jonas Schumann: JSchumann@wmeagency.com
Asia: Samuel Wald: SSW@wmeagency.com

Traffic cone enthusiast. Lives for hard trance mosh pits. Big fan of positive endorphins. Enjoys squelchy fidget. Loves to wobble. Regular cider consumer.

TO BOOK ME UP FOR SETS SEND ME A FACEBOOK MESSAGE TO https://www.facebook.com/DJLoFreq/ 🔥❤
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🎧🎧🎧🎧
My name is BIRDIE (DJ Name Lo-Freq)
And I'm a Resident DJ for : - 
⭐️MOMENTUM
⭐️CAVEMAN SOUNDS
⭐️DRUMATTIK
⭐️RESISTANCE
⭐️STATE OF MIND
⭐️REVIBE EVENTS

(FORMERLY FROM LYSERGIC & RURAL CONCEPTS) 

I LOVE my party anthems!!!
Music is one hell of a powerful tool, can make you feel happy, sad, invincible, chilled.... you name it!

I have been mixin since summer of '07 and have never looked back.

I have MIXED for:
~RURAL CONCEPTS
~NOCTURNAL SOUNDS
~SHAZAM
~420 SOUNDS
~BASS-SIK
~BUMPKIN SOUNDS
~STIMULATION SOUNDS
~EMACULATE VIBEZ
~INSURGENT SOUNDS
~MOMENTUM SOUNDS
~UNDERGROUND INSTINCTS
~REVOLUTION SOUNDS
~DIRTY NORFOLK AUDIO (D.N.A)
~EVOLUTION SOUNDS
~XTC
~WE LOVE BASS
~PANDEMIC SOUNDS
~NEBULA SOUNDS
~LYSERGIC SOUNDS
~SOLIDARITY
~JUNK-TEK
~SUBCONSCIOUS SOUNDS
~KYRIPTONIC SOUNDS
~CONTRIBUTION SOUNDS
~ANONYMOUS IDENTITY
~NAUGHTY NORFOLK SOUNDS
~NORFOLK AND SERIOUS ATTITUDE (NASA SOUNDS)
~REDEFINED SOUNDS
~INTRUDER
~DILATED SOUNDS
~PSYCHOTIC BEATS
~ARMAGEDDAN SOUNDS
~TWO TOWERS SOUNDS
~5-0 DISCO
~SAFE N SOUNDS
~NSA SOUNDS
~UNDIVIDED SOUNDS
~NU UNDERGROUND
~ROUGH TEMPO RADIO (www.roughtempo.com)
~NETHERMOON FAYRE
~DANCE 4 LIFE
~TURBULENT SOUNDS
~REQUIEM SOUNDS
~TEKNICAL SOUNDS
~BASSFACE WEEKENDER
~INDELIBLE SOUNDS
~FTN SOUND SYSTEM
~REWIRED MINDS
~ORGANISED CONFUSION
~UNCUT SOUNDSYSTEM
~SEKTION SOUNDS
~CROAKTEK SOUNDS
~THC (TREE HUGGING CREW)
~RIG OF THE DUMP
~432 Hz
~S.O.S
~DISOBEY
~REGENERATED
~UNDECIDED SOUNDSYSTEM
~ELUSIVE AUDIO
~SUBJECTIVE CULTURE
~BREEZY COLLECTIVE
~NAUGHTY ALLSORTZ
~HSG
~COLLABORATED SOUNDS
~TEAROUT EVENTS
~SEASIDE SESSIONS
~STATE OF MIND SOUNDS
~EVOLUTION 
~SUBVERSIVE SOUNDS
~ENDEAVOUR SOUNDS 
~FTS
~DRUMATTIK EVENTS
~TOXIC SOUNDS
~CAVEMAN SOUNDS
~RESISTANCE SOUNDS
~GREEN MACHINE 
~RESONATE SOUNDSYSTEM 
~DYSFUNCTIONAL SOUNDS 
~ORIGIN EVENTS 
~DETERMINATION AUDIO
~REBOOT 
~REVIBE EVENTS
~VIBEZ
~HIDDEN

I mix OLD SKOOL HARDCORE, OLD SKOOL HOUSE, BREAKBEAT, HARDCORE BREAKS, HARD TRANCE, HARDSTYLE, DRUM N BASS, RAGGA DNB AND JUNGLE.

!!!!!!!!!!!!! STRICTLY VINYL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(CAN ALSO MIX; PROG, ELECTRO, FUTURE HOUSE, HARDTEK, SPEED GARAGE / BASSLINE, LIQUID DNB, JUMP UP, PSY-TRANCE, MELBOURNE BOUNCE, MINIMAL & MULTI-GENRE MASH UPS DIGITALLY)

BIG UPS TO MOMENTUM SOUNDS
ALL THE NORFOLK HEADS (AND MY BORO COLLECTIVE)
AND MY SEXY PIONEER TURNTABLES!

Check out my very first fans on SoundCloud! - https://bit.ly/4bkp7pP

MANAGEMENT:
Danny Rukasin and Brandon Goodman

BOOKING:
Tom Windish and Sara Bollwinkel
BillieEilishBooking@paradigmagency.com

PUBLICITY:
Alex Baker
alexandra@highrisepr.com

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