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ill.Gates is a Toronto-based composer, performer and educator. Over the past 16 years, he has established a global fanbase and a reputation as one of the most dynamic electronic music artists around. He regularly tours across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Gates has headlined at such festivals as Burning Man, Shambala, the World Electronic Music Festival and the New Orleans Jazz Festival. His first full-length release, Autopirate (Muti Music, 2008) charted and continues to sell strongly. His upcoming triple album The ill.Methodology and accompanying online course are highly anticipated. Gates was recently selected as one of the Next 100 by URB Magazine. Many of his contemporaries cite ill.Gates as a key artistic influence and inspiration in their music. While on tour, Gates frequently teaches workshops to grateful and attentive audiences, in which he shares his highly effective approach to producing quality finished music as well as insights into the mentality and strategies necessary to succeed in the music business. ill.Gates appears on: Muti Music, Amorphous Music/Child’s Play/Om Records, Addictech, Noodles, Innerflight, Low Motion, Made In Glitch, Tube10 & Chi Recordings
ill.Gates – New Website – New Mix
To commemorate the launching of illgates.com we are giving away a 2011 Megamix; 20 minutes and 11 seconds of straight carnage featuring allthe heaviest ill.Gates releases alongside two premieres.
The first is a remix of King Kapisi’s Safari created with Kiwi badman Flex during the No Sleep Til Tokyo tour, and the second is a Drumstep remix ofT.O.B.’s Decoy written with Muti mastermind Dov.
Download, share, enjoy… Plenty more to come once The ill.Methodology starts dropping!
Tracklisting after the jumo
Continue reading...ill.Gates Eskamon Tutorial
13. March 2011
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ill.Gates is a hugely respected educator for producers and students all over the world. Endorsed by SAE, he was enlisted to create Ableton Live production packs & tutorial for Eskamon, the new collaboration between Eskmo & Amon Tobin (2010) – the video tutorial is here, so fire up your Ableton Live, grab a pen and paper, hit play and make some notes!
While on tour, Gates frequently teaches workshops to grateful and attentive audiences, in which he shares his highly effective approach to producing quality finished music as well as in-sights into the mentality and strategies necessary to succeed in the music business.
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Continue reading...ill.Gates Mix online now
9. March 2011
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As we start to book the UK & European leg of his “ill.Methodology” tour ill.Gates dropped over this mix – we’re liking his glitch infused hip hop, dubstep infused electro sounds.
He has ongoing collaborations with Bassnectar – some of which can be heard below. For a full investigation of the sound of ill.Gates, get yourself over to his soundcloud page here.
In other ill.Gates news, he’s collaborating with Datzik, he’s just released a ringtone pack for Microsoft and is also putting the final touches to his new album “ill.Methodology”.
Check out his collaborations with Bassnectar here, before listening to the mix:
Here’s the mix:
ill.Gates UK & European Tour: 6th – 20th June 2011
8. March 2011
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Faze 2 are pleased to announce UK & European tour dates for ill.Gates.
Between the 6th and 20th June 2011 ill.Gates touches down on European soil in support of his new ‘ill.Methodology‘ album which features collaborations with Masia One, Opiuo, and Vent to name a few.
The video above is ill.gates & meesha feat. Masia One ‘Irma Vep’ and we like it!
Gates’ on-going collaboration with Bassnectar ccontinues to make more & more noise and has already produced a chart topping remix of ‘Maximum’ by DJ Vadim (see the soundcloud link below) that sold so fast the duo were accused of chart-hacking.
Watch this space for more information and a dj mix… in the meantime get your ears around ill.Gates and Bassnectar’s remix of Maximum:
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18. March 2011
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