Artists Profile

Current Location :: Thousand Oaks, USA 

Real Name :: Roy Sidney Reid

Music Genres :: Rave & Hardcore

DJ Ellis Dee started getting into electronic music and DJing around 1992. Ellis started out mixing on a Denon 2000f dual CD player system and practiced for many months, making lots of crazy mixtapes for his friends and playing at a few local house parties. After a year or so on the CD players, he moved to Techniques turntables and now mixes with both CDs and vinyl.

In the beginning DJing was just supposed to be a hobby and a creative outlet, but soon events took a very different turn. Ellis started to get asked to play on DJ radio mix shows; Power 106 FM's Power Toolz show and Sweedish Eagle's Groove Radio International. It didn't take long for people to start to notice Ellis Dee's DJing flavor and Ellis soon began to get gigs in local clubs in Ventura and Santa Barbara. Soon after this, Ellis Dee began playing out in LA underground events in 1994 and this little hobby turned into something more serious.

In 1996, Ellis began to get out of state gigs and this is where things really started to take off. Since then, Ellis Dee has played at events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Bernadino, Memphis, Detroit, Seattle, Durham, Birmingham, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, Las Vegas, Santa Maria, Yosemite, and San Diego. DJing now takes a major part of Ellis Dee's time but he enjoys it very much, and does his best to balance DJing with other parts of his life.

Making lots of mixtapes and mix CDs was always a priority to Ellis. As of April 2000 he has 16 mixtapes and 8 mix CDs out. These mixtapes and Mix CDs have been sent to people, radio stations and internet media broadcast sites all over the world. Ellis Dee prides himself on a wide variety of music, mixing all kinds of electronica including; Progressive House, Progressive Trance, Ambient, Tribal House, Techno, Funky Breakbeats, Oldschool Techno, Goa & Psychedelic Trance.