Greg Downey

Belfast-born Greg began DJing over six years ago, shortly before he decided to pack up and move to Ibiza for the summer with his records. While playing at a dingy San Antonio after-party, he was spotted by the promoter of Gatecrasher, who was so impressed he asked him to play the following week at Space. Since then, Greg has worked hard to establish himself firmly among the best young DJs in the World

Greg developed a taste for electronic dance music from a young age and this is reflected in his unique style, which combines underground and uplifting trance with elements of techno. This is all rolled into an explosive performance, which sees him using 3 CDJs, Serato Scratch Live, Pioneer DJM 800 and EFX 1000 to devastating effect.

In 2006, Greg broke through in the UK , spinning to packed crowds at Lush, Godskitchen, Slinky, Inside Out, Goodgreef, Passion, Gatecrasher, The Gallery. and a host of others including dates around the world in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Shanghai, Poland and Indonesia.

In 2007, Greg attracted the attention of John Digweed with his remix of ‘Heaven Scent’, this was a defining moment in his career and Digweed later decided to give the remix a full release. Championed by every everyone from Sasha, Eric Prydz, Paul van Dyk, Tiesto, Armin and Digweed himself, Greg's remix claimed the number 1 spot on Beatport, Trackitdown and Audiojelly for over a month!
Greg also enjoyed huge success with his own track, ‘Vivid Intent’, which Armin Van Buuren picked as his ‘tune of the week’ on A State Of Trance.

Greg record his first Live As album on Discover. Recorded live from this years mega Planet Love Festival in Northern Ireland, his debut compilation captured Greg's energy as a DJ and was featured as "Album of the Month" in Mixmag.

Radio One soon came calling and Greg appeared twice on Eddie Halliwell's show in 2007, his Full Fire Mix was a hit with listeners around the globe

2008 - 2009 saw Greg clocking up airmiles all over the world from South Africa, Finland, Sweden, Poland, Argentina and more. Greg was snapped up by Paul van Dyk for his label Vandit. His first release Stadium was a huge success and was Mixmag's Cream Ibiza anthem of 2008. Greg was also chosen by Paul van Dyk to remix his track New York City which appeared on his massive Hands on In Between Album. On the tougher side of things his track King Dong on Discover Dark was hugely popular with Tiesto, Paul van Dyk, Judge Jules and Eddie Halliwell.
2009 saw the beginning of Global Code, Greg's radio show and podcast. presenting his take on Trance via the industry-leading station DI.FM. Each and every month Greg has thousands of loyal listeners and subscribers who tune into his sound.
Greg's defining moment of 2009 was entering the DJ Mag Top 100 at number 82, an amazing achievement for a young talent.



2010 has been Greg's most prolific year to date as a producer. Chosen by world number 9 Gareth Emery as his best of British, his track Global Code on Vandit has been one of the biggest tracks this year featuring in every Paul van Dyk set for the last 10 months and was number 1 in Trackitdown. His next single for Dutch heavy weights Spinnin was number 1 on Trackitdown and number 2 on Beatport. Then came his huge remix of Everything But The Girl - Missing, it has clocked up over 60,000 hits on youtube with massive support from all the A-list DJs. Greg recently teamed up with The lead singer from Mansun, Paul Draper to remake their classic track Wide Open Space. This has been one of the tracks of the year, crossing over onto daytime Radio One with support from Scott Mills and Vernon Kay, something not many trance DJs have achieved in a lifetime. It was also chosen by Mixmag as their tune of the month for July and predicted to be the track of the summer. Greg's latest single Send The Gods on Spinnin is setting clubs alight around the world and storming its way up the charts right now.

As a producer it is clear to see , release by release Greg is one of the brightest talents out there.
Supported regularly by the likes of Paul van Dyk, Tiesto ,Armin van Buuren, John Digweed, Ferry Corsten, Eddie Halliwell, Judge Jules, Sander van Doorn, Above and Beyond and many more, Greg's many achievements, alongside his outstanding technical ability will ensure he reaches great heights.