ILL.GATES
ill.Gates is the performing name of Dylan Lane, a Canadian producer, DJ and educator known for contributions to dubstep and bass music alongside an earlier career under the alias Phat Conductor working within the breaks scene. Lane's shift from breaks-oriented material to a more offbeat, glitch-inflected sound as ill.Gates marked a turning point in his career, embracing wobbly, chest-heavy bass lines that distinguished his releases within the broader dubstep wave.
Beyond DJ sets, he built an education-focused arm of his career through the ProducerDJ platform and Ableton-based tutorials, positioning himself as both a touring bass music DJ and an instructor teaching other producers his techniques. His ill.methodology workshops extended that teaching practice into live and online settings, combining production instruction with the same bass and glitch aesthetic heard in his club sets.
Lane's catalogue reflects collaborations with a range of bass music artists, built alongside his continued touring as a DJ within the genre's North American circuit. ill.Gates remains active across both his performing and teaching work, with his DJ sets continuing to draw on the eclectic bass and glitch hybrid sound he has developed since moving on from his earlier breaks-focused persona.