Arielle Free

Late-night radio, big booths and house euphoria

The club energy that Arielle Free unleashes behind the decks connects her facet as a radio selector, her background in the UK festival culture, and a very direct reading of the dancefloor: luminous house, recognizable vocals, elastic basslines, and an attitude designed to raise hands from the very first track. Raised between Stirling and Glasgow, she went through dance training before building a career as a music communicator, first in independent environments and later on British national radio.

From Ministry of Sound to BBC Radio 1 Dance

Her consolidation came after her time at Ministry of Sound Radio, where she gained experience as a presenter and tastemaker between 2014 and 2016. At BBC Radio 1, she expanded that reach with late-night shows, presence on Radio 1 Dance, and later, Radio 1’s Rave-Up, a space focused on the current pulse of dance music. That position has allowed her to act as a bridge between new names in the circuit, major house labels, and a massive audience that consumes electronic music both on the radio and at festivals and clubs.

Free Your Mind as a dancefloor brand

In parallel to radio, Free has developed her own identity through Free Your Mind, a party, community, and label from which she has promoted dance-oriented music without losing pop accessibility. Her career as a producer took public shape in 2022 with Soul Full, alongside Mortimer and Joe Killington, and with You Can’t Stop Me on Edible. Later came tracks like Technicolour Kenny with Jake Shears, Levitate alongside GotSome and Icarus, Feels So Good, Wasabi, Control with Be Charlotte, Shy with Might Delete Later, Mind, Body & Soul with Tristan Henry, Take Me There with Nadiah, and U Get Me High. Her catalog moves between house, tech house, deep house, and nods to 90s rave, with releases linked to Defected, D4 D4NCE, DFTD, REALM, Armada, Edible, Solotoko, and her own platform.

A radio DJ with an international career

In the booth, her profile has expanded from the British circuit to international venues. She has performed on stages and at clubs such as Glastonbury, Creamfields, Parklife, TRNSMT, Tomorrowland, Fabric, Drumsheds, The Warehouse Project, Printworks, Hï Ibiza, Ushuaïa Ibiza, Pacha Ibiza, [UNVRS], ARC Music Festival in Chicago, and Koko in London. Her sets usually rely on a mix of vocal house, club tools, and high-energy moments, with a physical presence inherited from dance and very direct communication with the audience. She has also used her visibility for far-reaching actions, such as the Tour De Dance challenge for Comic Relief, where she combined cycling and DJ sets over five days. She currently operates as a hybrid figure within British electronic music: a mass-audience communicator, festival DJ, growing producer, and curator of her own community around the dancefloor.