Welcome to the doof, by @hannahlaingdj

Hannah says: "I’m beyond excited to finally be launching my own label. For a long time I struggled to find labels that suited my music style. Now I can release freely and help other artists in the same position. I can’t wait to discover lots of amazing new artists and music"

An Amsterdam based independent organization, promoting highly popular Trance events.

BRINGING THE ENERGY 
Peach Resident 
Peach Goes Hard 
London

DIGITAL & VINYL DJ 

2025
08/02: Digbeth Rewind – Birmingham 
15/02/2025 - Music Unity for Mental Health 
15/02/2025 - Strawberry Sundae 
05/04/2025: Peach at Ministry Of Sound, London
26/05/2025: Ferry Corsten WTF @ Here Outernet 
25/05/2025: Euphoria Weekender – Malta
26/05/2025 - Euphoria Weekender - Malta 
27/06/2025 - Luminosity - Holland 
18/07/2025 - Timescape Festival 
21/08/2025 - One more Time - Eden Ibiza 
25/10/2025 - Trancevania / Peach 
22/11/2025 - Peach & Strawberry Sundae @ Fabric 



2024
01/01: Peach meets Trance Sanctuary @ Ministry of Sound 
24/02: Peach Goes Hard @ The Lower Third 
08/03: Reminiscence – Norwich 
20/04: Trance @ Social Chill Bar, Maidstone 
05/05: Peach @ KOKO
19/05: Peach @ Eden, Ibiza 
23/05: Euphoria Weekender – Malta 
24/05: Euphoria Weekender – Malta 
31/05: Goodgreef – Trance in the Woods – Derby 
08/06 – Music Unity for Mental Health @ Cyberdog 
13/07: Trance vs Hard House @ Basing House 
20/07: Peach Goes Hard @ The Lower Third 
17/07: Anomaly – Birmingham 
07/09: Peach @ KOKO
26/10: Trancevania @ Basing House 
23/11: Peach & Strawberry Sundae @ Fabric  
30/11: Trance @ Social Chill Bar, Maidstone 
21/12: Peach Goes Hard @ E1
26/12: Vinyl Euphoria @ Basing  House

As the first Italian DJ to tour the world, he’s put his homeland on the global techno map. As the first DJ to mix live on the eminent BBC music show Top Of The Pops, he’s helped bring techno to the widest audience possible. As the man behind Meganite – one of Ibiza’s most successful and longest running nights – he has recruited some of the world’s most respected underground DJs as residents; Adam Beyer, Marco Carola and Chris Liebing.

This journey to legendary status began over 25 years, 700 releases and 7 million unit sales ago when he became the first Italian finalist in the world DMC championships in 1988. Galvanising this success the following year with a win on a live broadcast Italian DJ competition called The Walky Cup, his national crown as a premiership DJ was realised... And the world beckoned.

A string of sonic successes, dancefloor dominance and industry victories followed; early chart appearances as R.A.F and co- writing for myriad European house acts during the early 90s led him to become a partner Media Records, while his reptilian trilogy in 1998 elevated him to a global level; ‘Lizard’, ‘Iguana’ and ‘Komodo (Save A Soul)’ fused trance with techno on such a level they became hymns for the biblical superclub explosion during the last few years of the 20th century and charted in many countries. From this point onwards, the world could no longer ignore the dance music and techno phenomenon. And Mauro was driving from the front. As one of the most in-demand artists across the globe, he barely left DJ Mag’s illustrious Top 100 DJ list throughout the first decade of the 21st century.

Constantly searching for innovative developments – both musically and technically – Mauro expressed an early vision that is now common place within electronic music: his ability to bring the underground to the masses, to fuse melody, hooks and harmony with industrial strength drum dynamics, his innate understanding of widescreen DJ selections that cover the whole spectrum created a reputation that positioned him in all corners of techno.

This focus and attitude meant that as a DJ he’s been invited to perform the broadest possible range of peaktime sets from Berlin’s famed Love Parade to Turin Winter Olympics via Timewarp, Tomorrowland, MTV Festival, Awakenings, Sensation, Mayday, Ultra Music Festival, Space Miami, Ibiza and thousands more. As an artist this gave him the freedom to flex from major remixes of top tier acts like Freddie Mercury and The Pet Shop Boys while delivering extensive albums that explore every side of techno with daring experimentation with tracks such as ‘Baguette’, ‘Contaminato’, ‘Hong Kong’, ‘The Riff’ and ‘Asteroids’.

As well as his journeyman DJ sets and full spectrum productions, this vision is also evident in his two brands. Both established in the early 2000s and still going strong to date, his Meganite events and Alchemy label are both melting pots for evolution and development. Meganite at Privilege is one of Ibiza’s most infamous techno parties and has since gone on to take over clubs and arenas across Europe and the US while Alchemy has delivered cuts from the likes of Adam Beyer, Chris Liebing, Joseph Capriati, Paco Osuna, Popof, Sasha Carassi, The Advent, Steve Rachmad, Nicole Moudaber and many more. Not just a label, Alchemy has also given the world a successful festival in Mauro’s motherland Turin in 2010 and is the home to his hugely popular podcast series that is syndicated across the world and listened to by audiences of millions. 

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.

Back in 1993 I was in a club in Windsor called Mirage, listening to the DJ playing and thought he could do better. In fact I could do better. Well the rest is history.

Techno since 1989, owner of Electric Ballroom. OG.

Probably London's fastest rising star in Hard Trance, and having secured a residency with the UK's biggest Hard Dance brand, Frantic, ensure Ashley Waters is heading towards the top of his game and is a name that will be around for some time.

Playing out from the age of 21, an 15 year journey has seen a fresh faced Ashley go from second room warm up sets to playing Main Rooms alongside world renowned artists at some of London's biggest clubs including the legendary Koko and Scala as well as gaining a slot on the sold out United Festival line up which took place at Finsbury Park in London.  

Ashley is a highly adaptable DJ able to play any set time which has seen him gain bookings with some of London's biggest brands including Frantic, Trance Sanctuary, Glowball, Impact, Digital Impact, Riot, Sinistry and many others. His diverse sets fuse uplifting, euphoric sounds with relentless, driving basslines that keep energy levels high from start to finish. Able to engage a crowd from the word go, his sets encompass a multitude of sounds which promise to always keep things interesting. 

Ashley has also gained success through his productions and hit the ground running when his debut track "Intangible" received a review in Mixmag and his debut EP secured "Track Of The Month" in IDj Magazine. 5 years on Ashley now has a number of popular innovative productions under his belt netting him 4 TrackItDown chart Numbers 1's in the process.

With lots of production plans in place, Huge bookings and other undisclosed projects in the pipeline there are some big things to come from Ashley Waters in 2016 as he bids to make a bigger stamp on the world of Hard Trance!

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