Techno DJ and producer Lilly Palmer grew up in a small town near Nuremburg, Germany. In high school, she struggled to fit in and found community with the metal kids. 



Palmer began to get a taste for dance music by age 17 as she found her way into local clubs, but it wasn't until she moved to Switzerland that she really fell in love with dance music. It was there that she got really into deep house, and later began DJing it herself.



"I was the outsider girl who was trying to make a lot of friends, but it didn't work. I ended up with metal friends, people that listen to death metal and rock. I felt super comfortable with those guys, so before I listened to techno, I listened to death metal and that was really fun," she told Gray Area with a smile.





Swedish band Arch Enemy was one of her favorites, and while she doesn't listen to metal anymore, but enjoys it when she hears it, along with the nostalgic trip it offers back to her teen years. Now, when she's at home or traveling, she listens to ambient music.



Palmer has been living near Amsterdam for four years now, and prior to that was based in Switzerland for six. It was there that she got much more into deep house, and later began DJing it herself. When asked which of the three locales has had the most impact on her sound, Palmer asserts it was Switzerland. She got her start playing deep house records at bars.



"My sets are sometimes still melodic," Palmer said. "But I just felt more and more that I had this energetic side in me, and that took over. I really like [deep house] still, and I would still go to clubs and listen to it. But now I prefer hard techno, even though a lot of people wouldn't consider my music as hard of techno as there is in Berlin. There, it's much harder than what I do."

And this is where the Spannung Records founder has found her sound, hard techno with intricate flourishes that hint at her love for melodic techno and deep house. And while she's found success in her DJ career with a steadily growing fan base, it wasn't easy finding support when she was starting out. In fact, she explains that most of male DJ friends ditched her when she began manning the decks, something she eventually figured was due to their unfortunate disapproval of her doing so.



"As soon as I started, I kind of lost all those male DJ friends who I had before," she told Gray Area. "So, I didn't have that support that a normal local male DJ has. He has his friends that are also DJs, that help each other, that give you a gig here, a gig there. With me, that didn't happen at all."

"I Was an Outsider Girl": How Lilly Palmer Went from Loving Death Metal to Deep House and Techno

When the COVID-19 pandemic upended everyone's lives in 2020 and made room on our calendars, many people tried out new hobbies and creative and professional endeavors. For German techno DJ and producer Lilly Palmer, it was the perfect time to start her own label, Spannung Records.

"In German, Spannung has two meanings. On the one hand it means voltage, and on the other hand it means tension," she told Gray Area in 2021. "I love this wordplay because tension can be either positive or negative. But it also reminds me of the job of a DJ—you're always under tension."

Adding another layer of meaning to the name, she met her boyfriend, Dutch producer Egbert, because of his track called "Electrify." Like many dance music producers' imprints, it began as an outlet for her own music, as well as that of Egbert, and also for their collaborations together.

In 2022, it's grown to include other techno artists' music as well, so far giving a home to works by A.D.H.S., Frankyeffe, and Warp Brothers. Since it's her label, Palmer is selective with what she releases on it, although she's very open to listening to anything she's sent.

In terms of what she's looking for, "It should be techno and I should be able to play it in my sets," she explained to Gray Area. "It can be less hard [than my music], it can be softer. Sometimes I have really melodic tracks to end the set. But in general, I would call it raw, underground techno."

The first release came in May 2020: Palmer and Egbert's timely rework of Warp Brothers' 2000 hard trance classic "We Will Survive." They transformed it into a spacey, acid techno heater. The most recent release came out in July, a speedy, frantic techno track called "Paranoize" from Berlin's A.D.H.S.

With Spannung, Palmer opts for single releases over EPs as she feels the second track tends to get overlooked, which is disappointing when you've put so much time and love into all of them. If she's going to release two tracks from an artist, she'd rather do two separate single releases than put them out together as an EP. This makes sense for dance music, yet it's somewhat unique to Spannung.

Keep an eye on Palmer and Spannung for more fresh, intricate techno tracks ranging from hard to melodic.

An Inside Look at Lilly Palmer's Techno Imprint, Spannung Records

German DJ and producer Lilly Palmer has fans around the globe thanks to her intricate, banging techno productions and immersive sets that take the dancefloor on a journey. She also loves playing in unique locations, often at sunset, sharing the sets on YouTube so fans can be transported on her techno airline, anytime, from anywhere.

Read on to watch five of the "We Control" producer's captivating DJ sets from interesting locales around the world.

1. Lilly Palmer by the Eiffel Tower in Paris (Tour Eiffel)





In the above video, witness Palmer deliver an hour of techno heaters from a Parisian rooftop at sunset, with a direct view of the Eiffel Tower. She opens the DJ set with a kinetic track from her partner, Egbert, along with Metodi Hristov's "Connect." Other track IDs include "From Beyond" by A.Paul and Dextro, "Interlinked" by Thomas Schumacher, and several of her own heaters, including "We Control," "Plasma," and "Aether." Rocking her signature high, sleek pony with a simple, all-black ensemble, she grooves and sways to the rhythm as she commands the decks. Impressionnante!

2. Lilly Palmer at nhow Rotterdam



Here, Palmer delivers another hour of entrancing techno against a gorgeous backdrop. She performs from a terrace or rooftop at the nhow Rotterdam hotel, with a stunning view of the Erasmusbrug bridge, the Nieuwe Mass river, and the Rotterdam skyline. She plays with the energy levels and BPM, keeping things interesting as the sun begins to set behind her. Track IDs include "Fryction" from Talismann, Marcal's remix of "Halving" by Lyric, "Raskolnikow" from Claas Herrmann, and, of course, a sprinkling of her productions like "Plasma," "Vertigo," and "Aether." In a fittingly euphoric moment as the sky turns orange, she closes the stellar set with her partner Egbert's "Finale," released on her Spannung Records.

3. Lilly Palmer in Bogota for Atonal



In this spring 2021 set, Palmer touches the clouds from a breezy Bogotá hillside armed with a puffer vest, dance moves, and USBs filled with pure heat. During this hour of driving techno hosted by Bogotá rave producer Atonal, the German techno champ drops Egbert and Metodi Hristov's "Euphoria," Frazi.er's "Temptation," her remix of Drumcomplex's "Atomic," The YellowHeads, Rebel Boy and Sam WOLFE's Detroit tribute, "Motor City," and Thomas Schumacher's "You Belong Here." Flanked by a gorgeous view of hilltops and Colombia's capital city behind her, Palmer proves her brand of techno belongs in many places.

4. Lilly Palmer at Delfins Beach Resort Bonaire



This set is a free trip to paradise, complete with the sound of waves crashing. Here, we find Palmer commanding the decks from the edge of a pier surrounded by the turquoise-blue Caribbean Sea. She starts things off with the synthy, melodic number from Stephan Jolk on Afterlife, "A Declaration of Love." The beautiful, watery setting is at the tranquil-looking Delfins Beach Resort Bonaire. The set continues on an emotive and moody journey, with the Adriatique remix of Matthew Dekay's "Heimreise," Fabrication's "Dustpig," and Gregor Tresher's "About A Good Place." To close, she selects Adriatique's "Home" with Marino Canal and Delhia de France as mother nature sends down a heavy sheet of tropical rain.

5. Lilly Palmer Kingsday session on a boat



Who wouldn't want to take a boat ride with Ms. Palmer as she serves up playful beats? Back in April 2020, many of us began aching for a loud, sweaty dancefloor as we perused Netflix for the millionth time. So, Palmer took a trip down the river and served up a fun and melodic set to give her fans a safe dose of rave energy. She opened the mix with Sam Shure's jingly "Mirage," into the Adana Twins' "Maoa." Other track IDs during the hour melodic techno cruise include Colyn's "Resolve," Khainz's "Next," and Avidus' "Engarde." As night begins to fall and the sun begins to set (all the moody sunset techno, please!) Palmer closes with Township Rebellion's "Magna Mater."

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Watch Lilly Palmer Serve Techno Journeys at the Eiffel Tower, a Rotterdam Hotel, and More

Amsterdam-based German DJ and producer Lilly Palmer has made a name for herself internationally thanks to her punishing hard techno productions and journey-to-the-underworld DJ sets. She put out her first release in 2015, an EP called Teaser, and has followed with a parade of banging techno on iconic imprints such as Adam Beyer's Drumcode, along with her own growing imprint, Spannung Records.

"In German, Spannung has two meanings. On the one hand it means voltage, and on the other hand it means tension," Palmer told Gray Area in 2021. "I love this wordplay because tension can be either positive or negative. But it also reminds me of the job of a DJ—you're always under tension."

She certainly plays with power and tension in her own original music. Read on to hear and learn more about five of Lilly Palmer's hottest techno tracks.

1. We Control

"We Control" is a rhythmic yet hard-hitting techno banger, released in February on Drumcode. The full six-and-a-half-minute version takes time to build up to its full power, twisting and turning through echoing highways littered with synths, kick drums, and a nearly unrelenting bassline. It leads a four-track EP of the same name, which hit #1 on the Beatport techno charts, and it is her first solo output on the famed techno label. Prior to that, she contributed "Amnesie" to their A-Sides Vol. 10 compilation album.

"The title track embodies a key-driven Motor City vibe before thrilling waves of jagged synths and ravey effects take the cut into brain-spangling bosh territory," as Drumcode eloquently and accurately described it.

2. Resonate

The Resonate EP is both Drumcode and Palmer's latest release, comprising three new techno singles led by the acid-tinged title track. "Resonate" is a euphoric, peak-time, driving techno heater-and-a-half that demonstrates what the Spannung head does best: moody techno bangers with ear-catching flourishes and simple, commanding vocals.

3. Temptation

"Temptation" is a stellar 2021 release on Palmer's own Spannung Records imprint. It's rhythmic and driving—and about a minute and a half in, it breaks out in a burst what I lovingly call synth farts, which always make an extra impact when you feel that bass through a big-ass sound system. This track will have you running your fasted mile and/or losing your mind on the dancefloor. I'll take both.

4. Aether

"Aether" is another 2021 track on Lilly's own label. It starts out a bit more muted—relatively speaking—and plays with tension and release as it ebbs and flows its energy levels. The track demonstrates the German artist's range, as well as her pension for always incorporating different sounds and effects to surprise and excite listeners. If you've only listened to the first minute of the "Aether," you really have no idea what you'll get across this epic, seven-and-a-half minute techno odyssey.

5. We Will Survive (Egbert & Lilly Palmer 2022 Rework)

"We Will Survive" is an amazing sample of Y2K Eurodance, a 2000 hard trance track by German duo Warp Brothers. Fittingly for 2020, Palmer and her boyfriend Egbert, a Dutch DJ and producer, revived the classic and transformed it into a spacey, acid techno heater. 



The original and the remix were definitely both retrieved from the same undiscovered rave planet, but the perfect rework subdues the '00s energy and transmutes it into a futuristic banger ripe to get the dancefloor going for many more years. It marked the debut release on Spannung Records, which also gave a home to a new track from the Warp Brothers in March 2022.

Rave on!

5 Techno Bangers from Germany's Lilly Palmer

Germany

Lilly Palmer

Awakenings Adam Beyer Presents Drumcode ADE - Gashouder

Netherlands

Gashouder

Pyramid Closing Party Part II

Spain

Amnesia

Drumcode Amnesia

Amnesia Ibiza Opening

Lilly Palmer plays with tension and release in her songs "

" from her label Spannung Records. The German techno artist likes to explore dissonant realms. 

 has two meanings. On the one hand it means voltage, and on the other hand it means tension," she explains, smiling. "I love this wordplay because tension can be either positive or negative. But it also reminds me of the job of a DJ – you're always under tension." 

' sleek logo resembles the power cell in an electric circuit. She promotes the label through a new webshop with original designs, including an elegant unisex bomber jacket. As a techno artist, Lilly fully believes in rocking different shades of black. 

Raised in Nuremberg, Germany, Lilly Palmer came of age in Berlin, exploring the techno scene. As a teenager, she was a metalhead until she began clubbing at 17. 

"It was in Switzerland (that) I really fell in love with deep house especially," she says. Every week she had favorite tracks to share with friends, and one day they suggested she start DJing. In 2015 Lilly made her debut, releasing an EP 

on Natura Viva Records, including the sizzling track "Before Acid." 

Lilly Palmer Techno Set @ Eiffel Tower Paris

Lilly Palmer techno set @ Eiffel Tower Paris (Tour Eiffel)

Lilly lives in the dance music mecca of Amsterdam with her boyfriend, DJ Egbert, and a Bengal cat named Dirk. While taking things slowly at home, she set time aside to learn kitesurfing. Despite a few faceplants, she gets back up and keeps flying. 

Similar to making music, she overcame the challenges that come with developing new skills. "If you don't understand how to break or speed it up, sometimes I went faster, faster, faster and couldn't stop anymore and fell," She describes. "I hit the water, and yeah, you're a bit shocked at first, but then you're going to do it again." Lilly is determined to go with the flow, and as a DJ, she has a masterful control of the environment. 

"I have this energetic side in me, and that took over," Lilly says, recalling her beginnings with deep house. "My sets are sometimes still melodic. Now I prefer hard techno even though a lot of people wouldn't consider my music as hard techno as there is in Berlin. There, it's much harder than what I do." 

She isn't far removed from the early-career jitters. "I remember very clearly, the day I opened my Facebook 'Lilly Palmer' fan page. I was sitting in front of the laptop, and I was shivering." But once she launched, she was relieved with the support of friends and, eventually, new fans. 

Coming up and getting support from friends within the scene was even more difficult than initially expected. In fact, she lost friends and wasn't immediately bolstered. 

"As soon as I started, I kind of lost all of those male DJ friends I had before," who didn't seem to approve of her artistic debut. However, her worries faded with each sign of encouragement. Lilly jumped the hurdles of entering a male-dominated scene and saw the bright side of being a female DJ, "You get to reach a lot of people very fast because you're very unique."

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And had she listened to every piece of advice, she wouldn't be a DJ with the traction she has today, so she knows not to take everything personally. Instead, curious and ready to explore the world, she would tell her younger self to "Keep going, go on with that." 

Lilly Palmer's resilience and independence comes from a do-it-yourself mindset. She invested in her setup and skills to produce 15 live streams without relying on a big team during the pandemic. She beams, "I love that feeling - I feel really independent."  

Online, Lilly Palmer DJs amidst gorgeous backdrops, including rooftop sunsets and the 

. The sounds are dark and industrial. ice-cold 

 and scorching techno. A Lilly Palmer track wouldn't be complete without thrashing snares and chilling vocal samples.

Roland's TB-303 is one of electronic music's accidental heroes. Released in 1981, the small, silver box was designed to emulate a bass guitar and accompany live musicians playing in bars and restaurants. It was relatively expensive at $395 (about $1,200 in today's money) but highly portable – it came in a silver satchel with a strap to carry it around like a handbag, and it could run on batteries.

 Unfortunately for Roland, it sounded nothing like a real bass guitar, and the product flopped. They made about 10,000 before discontinuing it in 1984. Many ended up in second-hand music stores in the US and were picked up cheap by producers from the Chicago house scene. They used the bouncy sequencer, the raucous low-pass filter, and the screamy resonance knob to invent a new type of music: acid house. 

 

 

Sleezy D, I've Lost Control [1986]

Many say Phuture (Earl Smith Jr., DJ Pierre, and Herbert Jackson) invented acid house. Their EP "Acid Trax" (on Chicago's Trax Records, 1987) certainly gave the genre its name. However, Sleezy D's 1986 Trax release "I've Lost Control (Remix)" is an earlier example. If you want to go back even further, in 1982, Indian musician Charanjit Singh released the album "Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat," which uses a TB-303 in the same squelchy style. 

 

 

Armando – Land of Confusion [1987]

The late 80s are filled with incredible Chicago acid tracks, most made with little more than a TR-707, a TB-303, and a mic. One classic is Armando's "Land of Confusion," released on Chris "Bam Bam" Westbrook's label in 1987. Funky, brittle, scrappy, it was made when Armando was just 17 years old. Fantastic acid house from a producer who died tragically young, at the age of 26. 





Mike Dunn – A Groove [1990] 

Hiding right at the end of Mike Dunn's first album, "Free Your Mind" (Desire Records, 1990), "A Groove" is a Latin-tinged banger with a TR-727 beat backed up by two TB-303s and Dunn's hip-house vocals. Mike Dunn released dozens of incredible house records over the following decades and is still DJing and releasing music.  

 

 

Tricky Disco ‎– Tricky Disco [1990]

Like so much Black American electronic music, acid house found more popularity in Europe than its birthplace. Acid exploded in the UK during the Second Summer of Love in 1988. Sheffield's Warp Records was an early champion, with releases from LFO and this one from Tricky Disco, which reached No.14 in the pop charts. Who were Tricky Disco? They're better known as the fascinating experimental art act Greater Than One. 

 

 

Plastikman – Plasticity [1993]

Richie Hawtin used a 303 all over his FUSE album "Dimension Intrusion" (Warp, 1993), but it was his first Plastikman release, "Sheet One" (NovaMute, 1993), that evolved acid into something deeper, damper, and darker – music that makes you feel like you're trapped at the bottom of a well. 

 

 

Hardfloor – Lost In The Silver Box [1993]

In Detroit, 303s had become a staple of the Underground Resistance techno sound. In Europe, 303s had been seized by hard trance acts. The first album by Dusseldorf's Hardfloor, "TB Resuscitation" (Harthouse, 1993), was named after the 303 and dedicated to its designer, Tadao Kikumoto. Its first track, "Lost In The Silver Box," is just layers of distorted 303 over a TR-909 and remains a nuclear bomb of a track. 

 



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Josh Wink – Higher State Of Consciousness [1995] 

By the mid-90s, big beat artists like the Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim blended sampled breakbeats with TB-303s. The huge breakdowns and snare rolls captured the maximal spirit of the times and found enormous popularity – none more so than Philadelphia DJ Josh Wink, with "Higher State of Consciousness" (Strictly Rhythm, 1995).

 

 

Syntheme – Blue [2007]

Tracks like "Higher States of Consciousness" and Daft Punk's "Da Funk" (Soma, 1995) put 303s into the mainstream, and as digital emulations got better, more producers got a chance to use the sound. By the early 2000s, the high-tempo, screeching 303 buildup began to sound cartoonish. But funky, downtempo acid was happening on labels like London's Breakin' Records, run by Ed DMX of DMX Krew, and Planet Mu, which put out a series of acid EPs by an artist known as Syntheme (now considered an alias for the producer Global Goon).

 

 

Tin Man – Nonneo (Donato Dozzy Remix) [2011]

Around the same time, California-born producer Johannes Auvinen started releasing deep, melancholic acid under the name Tin Man. Throughout the 2010s, he built a following for his slow, melodic acid tracks that channel Plastikman's bare 303 compositions. This track from 2011 was on the first release from Acid Test records and featured a beautifully stripped back remix from Donato Dozzy. 

 

 

Lauren Flax – It's Ours [2018]

Detroit native Lauren Flax is one-half of the Brooklyn band Creep. She's also put out a string of jackin' acid tracks on labels like Nervous Records, Magic City, and The Bunker. This one comes from "Dance Trax Vol. 16" on Unknown To The Unknown – a great label to check out for innovative jackin' house. 

 

 

 

Magic bonus track: Charlotte de Witt – Selected [2019]

The tracks above primarily focus on acid house and quirkier users of the TB-303, but the most celebrated purveyor of acid right now is probably Charlotte de Witt. The Belgian DJ and producer has put distorted 303s at the forefront of a sound that's made her one of the most celebrated techno DJs in the world. Here's a thumping piece of acid techno that came out on her label, KNTXT. 



A History of the Roland 303 in 10 Tracks

Building anticipation is what Lilly Palmer does best, and fans are left shaking with excitement and satisfaction. Soon, Lilly hopes to have her visa to play in North America. 

She wants to add more tracks and artists to the Spannung Records roster, valuing quality over quantity. Singles merit their own releases, and they have to be something she'd play in a Lilly Palmer set, she says. So she plans to keep building. 

"If I came home from a gig and thought, 

 then something is wrong." Lilly explains, "It's in us artists that we always want to develop and always do better." 

Gray Area Spotlight: Lilly Palmer

Lilly Palmer plays with tension and release in her songs "Temptation," "Aether," and "Vertigo" from her label Spannung Records. The German techno artist likes to explore dissonant realms. 

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
05:37 - How she started DJing
06:05 -  Being a woman in dance music
13:20 - Launch of her new merch store
15:13 - Her own label, Spannung
19:00 - Growing up in Germany
21:50 - Discovering deep house
22:00 - Difference between Germany, Switzerland, & Amsterdam house music
23:20 - Impacts on her sound
24:41 - Being an "outsider girl"
29:50 - Kitesurfing
35:20 - Speed Round

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Gray Area Interview: Lilly Palmer

Lilly Palmer plays with tension and release in her songs "Temptation," "Aether," and "Vertigo" from her label Spannung Records. The German techno artist likes to explore dissonant realms. 

"In German, Spannung has two meanings. On the one hand it means voltage, and on the other hand it means tension," she explains, smiling. "I love this wordplay because tension can be either positive or negative. But it also reminds me of the job of a DJ – you're always under tension." 

Spannung Records' sleek logo resembles the power cell in an electric circuit. She promotes the label through a new webshop with original designs, including an elegant unisex bomber jacket. As a techno artist, Lilly fully believes in rocking different shades of black. 

Raised in Nuremberg, Germany, Lilly Palmer came of age in Berlin, exploring the techno scene. As a teenager, she was a metalhead until she began clubbing at 17. 

"It was in Switzerland (that) I really fell in love with deep house especially," she says. Every week she had favorite tracks to share with friends, and one day they suggested she start DJing. In 2015 Lilly made her debut, releasing an EP Teaser on Natura Viva Records, including the sizzling track "Before Acid." 

Lilly lives in the dance music mecca of Amsterdam with her boyfriend, DJ Egbert, and a Bengal cat named Dirk. While taking things slowly at home, she set time aside to learn kitesurfing. Despite a few faceplants, she gets back up and keeps flying. 

Similar to making music, she overcame the challenges that come with developing new skills. "If you don't understand how to break or speed it up, sometimes I went faster, faster, faster and couldn't stop anymore and fell," She describes. "I hit the water, and yeah, you're a bit shocked at first, but then you're going to do it again." Lilly is determined to go with the flow, and as a DJ, she has a masterful control of the environment. 

"I have this energetic side in me, and that took over," Lilly says, recalling her beginnings with deep house. "My sets are sometimes still melodic. Now I prefer hard techno even though a lot of people wouldn't consider my music as hard techno as there is in Berlin. There, it's much harder than what I do." 

She isn't far removed from the early-career jitters. "I remember very clearly, the day I opened my Facebook 'Lilly Palmer' fan page. I was sitting in front of the laptop, and I was shivering." But once she launched, she was relieved with the support of friends and, eventually, new fans. 

Coming up and getting support from friends within the scene was even more difficult than initially expected. In fact, she lost friends and wasn't immediately bolstered. 

"As soon as I started, I kind of lost all of those male DJ friends I had before," who didn't seem to approve of her artistic debut. However, her worries faded with each sign of encouragement. Lilly jumped the hurdles of entering a male-dominated scene and saw the bright side of being a female DJ, "You get to reach a lot of people very fast because you're very unique."



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And had she listened to every piece of advice, she wouldn't be a DJ with the traction she has today, so she knows not to take everything personally. Instead, curious and ready to explore the world, she would tell her younger self to "Keep going, go on with that." 

Lilly Palmer's resilience and independence comes from a do-it-yourself mindset. She invested in her setup and skills to produce 15 live streams without relying on a big team during the pandemic. She beams, "I love that feeling - I feel really independent."  

Online, Lilly Palmer DJs amidst gorgeous backdrops, including rooftop sunsets and the Eiffel Tower. The sounds are dark and industrial. ice-cold acid and scorching techno. A Lilly Palmer track wouldn't be complete without thrashing snares and chilling vocal samples.

Building anticipation is what Lilly Palmer does best, and fans are left shaking with excitement and satisfaction. Soon, Lilly hopes to have her visa to play in North America. 

She wants to add more tracks and artists to the Spannung Records roster, valuing quality over quantity. Singles merit their own releases, and they have to be something she'd play in a Lilly Palmer set, she says. So she plans to keep building. 

"If I came home from a gig and thought, wow that was the best ever, then something is wrong." Lilly explains, "It's in us artists that we always want to develop and always do better." 


Interview by RYDEN 