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.

Johnny de City is a DJ & producer from Bratislava, Slovakia.

Over the past 10 years he produced more than 800 mashups, edits and bootlegs and released more than 30 mashup packs. The episodes of special mixtapes containing these mashups are called Mashup Avenue. These mixtapes are very popular among EDM fans in Slovakia and Czech Repuplic. Johnny’s mashups & tracks have been supported by Kryder, Dannic, Showtek, Matt Nash, Marnik, and more from all over the world. 

His second project called Mashup on the Go is a serie of reel videos in which he creates live mashups in various interesting locations. Several of these videos have been shared by big DJ Instagram profiles such as DJ Lovers Club, DJcity or Arco Entertainment. One of these videos has almost 2 million views on TikTok.

Johnny has played at many different venues & festivals and supported artists such as Nervo, Vini Vici, Blasterjaxx, Vinai, Julian Jordan, Dannic, Danny Avilla, Dr. Phunk and many more. Besides all the main clubs in Slovakia, Johnny regularly plays in Ministry of Fun, Banska Bystrica (marked as the best and most modern club in Slovakia) and in its twin club - Epic in Prague, Czech Republic.

Management [EU/UK]: barry@wearefresh.co.uk
Bookings [EU/UK]: eugene@wearefresh.co.uk
Bookings [AUS/NZ]: trent.grimes@tmrw.com.au

www.jessebloch.com

With over 300 million streams to his name, Innovative Australian DJ and Music Producer, Jesse Bloch, has swiftly risen to become a top curator on TikTok, amassing a following of 150k and over 2 million likes. His unique sounds have resonated with thousands of creators across the platform, catapulting his popularity with his sounds being used hundreds & thousands of times.

Hardstyle events and record label operated from Glasgow, Scotland

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Instagram @ridgey_official

DJ & Producer from Newcastle 
One half of JGS & INTENT PRODUCTIONS

Collabs with : JGS, Agent Blue, Ignito/4tune, Infinite, ADS, Paradox, Ammo-T, Geo Mcd, AliiKore, Alectrona, Crawfty, Dj Gillies, Siobbhan Mackin, Rhyme, Foggy, Burty, Dj Speed, Donnelly, DJ M Walls, Tazo, Merki, Made2Fade, Burn - E, BOD, DYNAMIC & Mikey G

Rewired Records 

Official Release on Sony Music Entertainment - Messy in Heaven - VENBEE, JGS & INTENT (New Years Eve Party Mix)

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