Ill-Gates
*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 on leading digital music distributors
such as Beatport and Addictech; and continues to sell
strongly. Gates was recently selected as one of the Next 100
by URB Magazine.
Recent Career Highlights
Many of his contemporaries cite Gates (aka The
Phat Conductor) 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
• Kicking it with his namesake, Bill Gates; while playing
a private party for Microsoft at the Sundance Film
Festival (2010)
• A thriving creative partnership with San Francisco-based
bass music icon Bassnectar, including a chart-topping
remix of ‘Maximum’ by DJ Vadim that sold so fast the
duo were accused of chart-hacking (2010)
• Recording a free album live in Vienna to be released in
the summer of 2010
• Developing Ableton Live production packs & tutorials
for Eskamon, the new collaboration between Eskmo &
Amon Tobin (2010)
• Headlining the world’s first concert for the deaf, using
Emoti-Chairs developed by the Alternate Sensory Input
Devices (ASID) Lab at Ryerson University (2009)
• Dance accompaniment by world-famous Chinese dancer
Dino to his song ‘Eggplantation’ in front of a massive
live audience in Singapore, which led to licensing of
Autopirate in Korea (2009)
• Composing ‘Adagio for Disney Hall and Coffee Grinder’,
for an upcoming DVD by architect Frank Gehry
which explores the relationship between architecture and
music (2008)
