Digital Farm Animals

Digital Farm Animals served as the stage name for British electronic dance producer and DJ Nick Gale. He first surfaced during the 2010s after initially building experience through songwriting and remixing for various pop, R&B, and electronic performers, eventually securing his own recording contract in 2015. Among his earliest entries on the charts were the 2016 track “Only One” alongside Sigala and the successful joint effort “Millionaire” with Cash Cash, plus 2017 releases “Back to You” featuring Louis Tomlinson and “All Falls Down” with Alan Walker.

Raised in Stanmore in northwest London, Gale first became interested in music production at age 13 when a friend supplied him with the free software Fruity Loops. He quickly grew absorbed in the tool and devoted countless hours daily to creating tracks on his computer, continuing this routine while attending university in Nottingham, where his chosen alias originated from the view of a farm visible from his dorm room. After earning a law degree and enduring brief, unsatisfying periods working as a trainee solicitor, an inept barman, and an advertising salesman, he secured management in 2013 and issued his debut EP, Bugged Out. The project attracted attention and helped unlock new opportunities. His persistence culminated in 2015 with a signing to Simon Cowell’s Syco Records. That same year he joined drum’n’bass artist Netsky as a featured performer on “Rio,” handled co-writing and production duties on Dua Lipa’s “Be the One,” and put out his own first single, “True.” The next year his second collaboration with Netsky, “Work It Out,” reached the Belgian Top Five; additional production and songwriting work followed for Alex Newell, Galantis, and Jones, while three more singles appeared under his own name, the biggest being “Millionaire” with Cash Cash and Nelly, which peaked at number 25 on the U.K. singles chart. In 2018 he joined Shaun Frank and vocalist Dragonette for the upbeat single “Tokyo Nights,” then followed in 2019 with “Lookin’ For” featuring Danny Ocean.