Chris Mills is the DJ/promoter behind the night, Underground in Hull. 

Chris started DJing because of his love of house music. He played his first set at the age of 25 in the back room @ Rhythm Room, Hull, and from there gained regular sets at local nights across the city and region.

He went on to hold a residency for over two years at Hull's longest running house night, Deja Vu, hosting the second room. Here he played alongside some of the industries biggest names, including Pete Tong, Mark Knight, Buckley, Jonathan Ulysses, Sarah Main, Sandy Rivera and Steve Angello. Mostly playing in the second room enabled him to develop his prefered style of deep/tech house and allowed him to be more experimental.

Chris went on to start his own night, Underground, across the city at Zebra club. The night let him take his love for the darker, unusual and truly 'underground' side of house music to new levels. Now, almost three years on, Underground has welcomed the talents of James Holroyd (Back2Basics), Matt Cooper (Dirty Disco), Frenchy (Back2Basics & The Digital Underground), Jon Woodall (Back2Basics/Whalebow), Denney (Future), Sona Sound (Bullet:Dodge records/Phobic records) Surrealists (Bullet:Dodge & Darkside Black records) and has some exciting DJs wanting to come and play at the night.

Through his experience of the performance and promotion, Chris is now exploring music production and is aiming to have some of his own individual style channeled into his own house music sounds.

Co-founder of Koala, club night in Hull UK. Guests have included: Nico Lahs, Jordan Peak, Glimpse, Mark Henning, Lee Jones, Matt Tolfrey, Amir, Subb-an, Yaya, Alex Arnout, Massi DL, Giuseppe Cennamo, Lemos.

If you want to enquire about bookings, remixes or just want a sandwich making because your daughter has been locked out, email me at: matt.thornton@mail.com

Established in London, 1999.

#HouseMusicAllLifeLong

MGMT: ross@lgrp.co

Bookings: 

ROW: will@nge-booking.com 
NA - valdano@thebullitagency.com
SA - mikel@b4bookings.net

With Releases on:
House Lab Records & Animal Recordings

Supported by Patrick Topping, Richy Ahmed, Mark Jenkyns & Max Chapman

It was in 2015 when things really started to pick up for Corey when a video aired on Facebook of Patrick Topping playing ‘Corey Barker - Love Life’ at Hideout in Croatia. This track was then featured in Mixmag under Patrick Topping’s ‘top 5 Ibiza slammers’ & then went on to reach 11th in the Beatport deep house chart & 34th position overall. From here he played twice for ABODE at Studio338 (in the loft and on the mighty terrace!) 

Corey, like many northern youths got into dance music via happy hardcore scene but his tastes quickly shifted once he spent the season of 2010 in Ibiza & attended nights such as Circoloco where artists like Jamie Jones, Rhadoo & tINI truly drew him in & inspired him. After this he attended all the renowned clubs & festivals across the globe, absorbing the way of the dancefloor, whilst continually honing in his production craft. 

Very early on in his career he was getting a lot of self-earned support of his tracks, many were played out in various clubs across Europe. It wasn’t long before he was swiftly dishing out his own style of energetic groovy Tech House with catchy vocals and trippy FX, which earnt him a lot of respect in the Hull underground circuit & all the friends and contacts he had met during his travels. Going on to be a resident for ‘déjà vu’ & ‘Illicit’ in Hull he quickly got the hang of mixing under pressure and played alongside some of the biggest names in the industry such as wAFF, Denney, Audiojack, Flashmob, Leftwing & Kody, Dale Howard & Chris Cue. Corey also played a set at Kanya Beach Pool Party, Ibiza.

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