Mike Williams

Mike Willemsen; born November 27, 1996, better known by his stage name Mike Williams, is a Dutch DJ, record producer, musician, and remixer. He is best known for working with Tiësto and as an artist of Spinnin’ Records, who recognised him as an “artist of the future”. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of the future bounce genre, an emerging subgenre of future house, alongside Dutch DJs Brooks and Mesto and more.

Willemsen was born on November 27, 1996. He started playing the piano as a child at the age of 6.When he grew a little older, he learned sight-reading during his piano lessons but would rather devise, make and play his own songs. Afterwards, he quit his lessons and started working on a laptop with an amplifier and his father’s speakers.  At the age of 12, he learned to DJ and produced his first dance track. At 14, he performed as a DJ in a club for 500 people, and after that was regularly booked for gigs. He lives with his older sister Michelle, a news reporter.

At the beginning of his career, he released numerous remixes and bootlegs of songs such as “Blame” by Calvin Harris and “I Really Like You” by Carly Rae Jepsen, which received over 3 million plays on SoundCloud. The remix of Harris’s single was well received and was regularly played by other DJs such as Oliver Heldens at their sets. Later on, he started releasing his own songs, as well as collaborations with other artists and his first single was “Konnichiwa”, which was released on January 31, 2015.  On June 6, 2015, he released “Candy”, a collaboration with Dastic (Damian Bast). Williams’ single “Battlefield” under the alias WLLMS with Robby East was released on June 26, 2015.  Since then, he was approached by labels and managements before signing with Spinnin’ Records. He was signed by Tiësto, who later on also released a single with him, and was managed by MusicAllStars.