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.

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Harnessing a distinct brand of artistry that knows no categorical bounds, the DJ, producer and record label head has cemented herself as one of the music industry’s most in-demand names at nothing short of breakneck speed. Her signature sonic approach masterfully blends genres with a visceral energy that commands attention, the ardent catalyst in her meteoric rise from Belgium’s underground to global phenomenon status.

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DJ Jamie B real name James Brown is a DJ and music producer from Belfast Northern Ireland, he started his music career aged 18 playing in local clubs around the Belfast area, he began producing music 10 years ago with another two local producers Nova Scotia and Micky Modelle, they were then making songs under the name Ghetto Busterz, they released remixed tracks such as Rhianna, Ne-Yo, the Guru Josh Project and remixes for clubland.
In 2015 Jamie was approached by a local Belfast radio station Blast 106 to have his own show named Dreamteam 90’s Dance show this proved to be very successful for him and lead him to then start his own Facebook live show Jamie B old skool anthems for all his followers.
He started doing this when he was out playing in clubs from his phone and as his followers increased he then started streaming from his studio on a Monday evening, by this stage he was getting 20k views per stream and this then lead to him in 2016 working in clubs over in Scotland , he then started producing his own music with Nova Scotia for this show such as Don’t stop the sweet lovin and Million faces which both have over 4 million views on youtube.
Since then Jamie B and nova scotia have been non stop producing and remixing new and old music giving them that old skool sound that has proven so popular that their songs are regularly played on George Bowie’s GBX anthems show on Clyde One, this then led to Jamie being asked over to play in Ibiza with GBX and also playing at 2018’s Stereofunk  and Colourfest festivals in Scotland, and also some big clubs and festivals in Northern Ireland.
he continues to produce music both on his own and with Nova Scotia and recently remixed the brand new track Home for TTF and his live shows get up to 70k watching him weekly he also has over 120k followers on his Facebook page www.facebook.com/djjamieboldskoolanthems also check out his soundcloud & mixcloud www.soundcloud.com/jamiebdj
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