Billy Gillies

Belfast, Britain (UK)

Billy Gillies is a young trance producer and DJ from Northern Ireland who is an integral part of the new generation of Irish trance artists. Billy’s tracks are regularly supported by Armin Van Buuren, Paul Van Dyk Aly & Fila, Giuseppe Ottaviani. John Askew, John O Callaghan, Bryan Kearney, Sean Tyas, Judge Jules and many more. His signature sound is in and around the 140 bpm mark, dishing out uplifting, driving trance euphoria. The Belfast man also produces a more progressive, grooving dirty tech trance hybrid for the big room. Since he turned 21 years old, long running and highly respected UK label Fraction Records have picked up on Billy’s productions with Digital Sundown, Luminous/Fly Zone, Remember/Good Day, Watching the Sun Go Down/Codec and Rewire carving out his name on the global scene. These releases have earned him constant plays in top clubs and festivals throughout the world, plus FSOE and BBC Radio One support. Outside of Faction in 2013, Billy released Octagon on Future Focus and Daytona (including Photographer Remix) on Edge which both gained him A State Of Trance support from the world’s number 1 DJ, Armin van Buuren. Now at only 23 this producer has a plethora of big name support under his belt and is constantly evolving as he sets his sights on even bigger labels and perfecting his own distinctive Billy Gillies sound. Unlike a lot of produces these days, Billy was a DJ first and has honed his skills from a young teenager in the bedroom to the clubs of Belfast and beyond, making appearances in Glasgow alongside, Simon Patterson, Lisa Lashes, Will Atkinson, Vicky Devine and Nick Callaghan at Trancelate in Glasgow. Billy is one of the most popular young spinners in Northern Ireland trance and has warmed up for Sean Tyas, Simon Patterson, Mark Sherry, Tritonal, Bryan Kearney, Timmy & Tommy and Greg Downey on home soil. With his new DIGITAL SUNDOWN Podcast launching in the 2nd half of 2013 Billy Gillies is a passionate, skilled and creative artist who is relentlessly moving forward and is not to be missed on his way to the next level.