ill.gates

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ill.Gates - Biography ill.Gates has over 70 million plays on over 300 songs, including releases with the winners of 9 Grammy Awards, official music for Star Wars (as “Sentient 7 and the Clankers”), and an Action Bronson remix which was featured in GTA V. He’s released 8 studio albums as ill.Gates, given over 1000 live performances on 5 continents and founded the Producer Dojo record label, which is rapidly approaching its 100th release. Collaborators include 42 Dugg, Alanis, Andrew Huang, Apashe, Beats Antique, Bil Bless, Captain Hook, Chris Karns (Pretty Lights), CloZee, Conrank, Dead Kennedys, Def3, Defunk, Destroid, Dieselboy, DJ Vadim, Dub FX, Eko-Zu, Eprom, EyeOnEyez, Foreign Beggars, G Jones, Gucci Mane, ill-esha, Kandisha, KJ Sawka, Kraddy (Glitch Mob), Liquid Stranger, Mayor Ape, Mimosa, Minnesota, Mr Bill, Noisia, Opiuo, PAV4N, RIP Kenny, Stephan Jacobs, So Down, Souleye, SPL (Champagne Drip), Stylust, UHNK, Who Knew, DJ Yawn, and Zain Effendi (Pirates of the Caribbean, Dark Knight). Producers around the world know ill.Gates as the first person to ever offer commercial Ableton templates (2006) and ill.Gates’ famous “128s” and “Mudpies” techniques have become so ubiquitous that their popularity eclipses even his own. More recently ill.Gates has expanded into programming, creating all-hardware “128s” style wavetables that now come stock with Serum 2. As an educator, ill.Gates has taught at the Ableton Education Summit, Berkelee College of Music, NYU, ACC (Austin Community College), the S.A.E. (School of Audio Engineering), and was featured on the Ableton ‘One Thing’ series and Andrew Huang’s ‘4 Producers Flip The Same Sample’ show. In 2016 ill.Gates founded his own music school: Producer Dojo, teaching creativity and discipline to musicians using his signature combination of philosophy, psychology and practicality. You can catch up with the ill one at www.illGates.com and learn all about the Dojo at www.ProducerDojo.com