Hard/tech trance

Light a Rainbow

SEEDSY- Blue Beer and BBQs - Summer Cheesers.

Madelyne – Beautiful Child (Shugz x Paul Clark Remix)

Afterdark welcomes N.Ireland's most exciting new duo with a debut release of monstrous proportions, Symmetrik arrive with Ignite, hard, uplifting and essential, get involved!

Early support from Armin van Buuren & Sneijder

Symmetrik - Ignite

Ian van Dahl will I stuarty baillie rework

Ian Van Dahl Will I (Stuarty Baillie ReWork)

Billy Gillies - Fix you remix

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Lange  - Follow Me (Nova Scotia Remix)            FREE DOWNLOAD!!

Relinquos first release on Loading Systems Records in 2025 is a stunning blend of Asian influences and acid-driven techno. The EP features two powerful tracks, Hinode and Nichibotsu, each intricately crafted to take listeners on a sonic journey.

Relinquo - Nichibotsu (Original Mix)

DELIRIUM - WHITE

JOC & Deirdre Mclaughlin vs. Bryan Kearney - Stay With Me vs. Say Nothing (Bryan Kearney Mashup edit)


Say Nothing vs Stay With Me (Bryan Kearney mix edit)

BUY:
https://afterdark.choons.at/void


One of the standout tracks in Sneijder's set at last year's Australia tour; Void is a tech-trance beast primed for dancefloor devastation.

Billy Gillies - Void

We welcome Billy Gillies to Damaged with a debut release, Power! Heavy bass, a beautiful breakdown and a devastating drop!

Billy Gillies - Power (Damaged Records)

Man of the moment Billy Gillies is back on Afterdark with the tech infused 'Listen Up'. Early support from Armin van Buuren, Sneijder & More.

Buy now - afterdark.choons.at/listenup

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Afterdark
Release date:
22 October 2018

Billy Gillies - Listen Up (Afterdark Rec)

Kick starting 2019 we welcome some new names to the label.  Mandy Reid is no stranger to the tech trance scene, having racked up high profile releases on Spinnin, Vandit & Doorn she makes her debut on Afterdark with a tech trance beast. 

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Mandy Reid - Infiltration

Reverse Bass Hard Trance!

Coming soon to Damaged Records!

Jordan Suckley & Kutski- Ecstasy Love [Damaged Records]

One of the biggest trance tracks of the year

Now available for free download

Enjoy x

Karen Overton - Your Loving Arms (Billy Gillies Rework)(Free DL)

“Music should either move your heart or your feet” - PVD

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.

Billy Gillies - Listen Up (Afterdark Rec)

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