Phonica Records

Few artists capture that sweet spot between introspection and dancefloor euphoria quite like Dublin's Long Island Sound. Since emerging with early releases on Body Fusion before carving out a distinct identity through their own Signs of Space imprint, Rob Roche and Tim Nolan have steadily built one of Ireland's most compelling catalogues—stretching from the shimmering house and breaks of Initial A...

For this edition of Off The Record, we welcome Miles J Paralysis. Hailing from West Yorkshire, Miles has been steadily shaping a world of his own through releases on Crying Outcast, Mysticisms and Emotional Response. Drawing loose threads between dub, electro, hip-hop, post-punk and regional folklore, his productions feel as informed by soundsystem culture as they do by the stranger corners of the...

Few DJs are riding the line between heads-down oddball groove science and hands-in-the-air serotonin release quite like Papa Nugs. Whether he’s shelling down rooms like Phonox, Corsica Studios, the Glastonbury Festival fields at Silver Hayes and Shangri-La, or spinning at the iconic red-box BRET Bar in Amsterdam, the London selector has built a reputation on blends that feel simultaneously loose,...

As the days stretch longer and dancefloors begin to spill out into sun-drenched mornings, basic chanel arrives on Off The Record with a mix built for motion, release, and pure emotional lift. Known for her deep-drifting excursions through psychedelic dub, hypnotic techno, and dreamlike bass pressure, Chanel trades the foggier corners of her sound palette here for something glowing with warmth and...

Ceri is a London born DJ, Selector, Producer and Record Label owner. She earned her 'DJ Stripes' with multiple residencies across the Capital, most notable for Jaded at Corsica Studios, where she played eight, nice and even ten hour sets regularly in their second 'house room'. She has also played the iconic fabric 'hattrick' playing all three rooms, as well as gigs at Berlin's Panorama Bar and Hei...

Few artists have navigated the intersections of club music, global rhythm and deep listening with the consistency and curiosity of Auntie Flo. Emerging from the fertile Glasgow scene and closely tied to institutions like Sub Club, his sets and productions have long blurred the lines between percussive club functionality and transportive, almost ritualistic sound design. Releases such as Radio High...

There’s a certain low-lit, after-hours quality to everything ddwy touch — a feeling that sits somewhere between dubbed-out introspection and dancefloor disorientation. The London-based pair, Naomi Pieris and Ronan MT, have been quietly carving out their space through a run of deeply textural releases and increasingly exploratory live and DJ outings, from DIY spaces to leftfield festival bills acro...

There’s something quietly resolute about Asyncronous—a sense of patience, of memory half-recalled, of dance music that resists immediacy in favour of something more enduring. For their Phonica Friends & Family mix, the Kyiv-based duo turn inward, sketching a one-hour passage built entirely from their own catalogue, including cuts from Selected Memories We Never Had on Kashtan. It plays less like a...

For the 62nd instalment of Phonica’s Off The Record mix series, we welcome Leeds-based selector, producer and party-starter DJ Subaru. A vital presence in the UK’s underground dance circuit, Subaru has steadily built a reputation for playful, emotionally charged selections that drift between Italo, house, new wave and cosmic disco oddities. Rooted in the vibrant Leeds scene—where they run the belo...

Stepping up for his Phonica mix, Chez De Milo delivers a raw, one-take session that captures the ruff-and-ready energy he’s been channeling on dance floors across the UK and beyond. A mainstay of Fabric, The Cause, Love International, and a host of revered underground spaces from London to Bristol, Chez has steadily built a reputation as a DJ’s DJ—equally at home soundtracking late-night basements...

For his Off The Record mix, Mori Ra taps back into the same restless, far-reaching instinct that’s defined his path from Osaka’s record shops to dancefloors worldwide. A lifer digger with a taste that stretches from kosmische and cold wave to Balearic oddities, ambient techno and proto-trance, Mori Ra has quietly built a cult discography of edits and EPs for labels including Berceuse Heroique, Mac...

Italian-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer Pancratio brings a decade-plus career of finely honed releases and international dancefloor experience to his Phonica mix. With standout records such as Love Letters on PARAMIDA’s Love On The Rocks and the Automatic House LP on Faith Beat, he’s built a reputation for productions that fuse analog warmth with driving, modern club energy. Alongside this, his...

Matt Cowell has carved out a distinctive space in the UK underground scene as a DJ, curator, label-head and sonic adventurer — a figure equally at home weaving deep, heads-down sets and steering conversations around forward-thinking music. As a key voice behind independent hub Ransom Note, co-founder of the boundary-blurring imprint Viscera Transmissions (home to artists like Niklas Wandt, Thomass...

Off The Record hit their 60th with a mix from a true modern day selector. A mix that was sent to us from long time manager of Phonica, the dearly missed late Nick Williams – Muriel De Bros a.k.a Princess P gives us an hour and a half of genre-blurring, deep dug and beautifully blended magnificence. For decades Princess P has been a cornerstone of underground culture out of Switzerland – from cutti...

Glasgow’s own Austin Ato has quietly built one of the most compelling trajectories in contemporary house music — a DJ and producer whose colourful, groove-laden records nod to 90s house, deep disco and soulful rhythms while always carrying a distinctly modern pulse. Over the past decade he’s dropped vinyl and digital cuts on revered imprints like Phonica White, Classic Music Company, Me Me Me and...

As 2025 closes, Elli arrives to Phonica’s Friends & Family mix off the back of a breakout year, one that saw her music embraced across Europe’s cosmic-disco and downtempo scenes and her live show land on iconic stages like Jæger. In conversation, she describes her world as part cinematic dreamspace, part crate-digger curiosity — a fusion that shines through this seasonal selection. Moving between...

Over the past decade, Ploy has quietly but decisively become one of the UK’s most versatile dancefloor thinkers—an artist whose catalogue maps a constant tension between percussive futurism, bass-heavy urgency and a mischievous instinct for left-turns. His most recent release on Faith Beat pushed that ethos further into focus, folding sleazy groove, screw-face swing and oddball funk into something...

Scott Hudson — better known behind the decks as Hudson’s Choice — is one of South-London’s up and coming perceptive vinyl diggers and tastemakers. Based in the UK, he’s built his reputation through a deep love for house, disco, and worldly, soulful electronic sounds — both as a DJ and a record-collector. In 2024 he delivered his debut EP, Myatts Field, on Delusions of Grandeur, co-produced with la...

The long standing NTS resident steps up for the latest Off The Record mix. London-based DJ and NTS regular Babyschön a.k.a Safi Bugel brings her deep, left-of-centre sensibilities to Phonica’s Off The Record series with a mix that bridges the afterglow of summer and the shadows of winter. Known for weaving post-punk, Italo, EBM and oddball house through her radio shows and club sets, Safi has buil...

The ever-restless crate digger and globe-trotting selector Romain FX steps into the booth for our 137th edition of the Phonica Mix series, bringing with him the full force of his nomadic, genre-bending ethos. Born in France but raised across Hong Kong, Taiwan and the USA, he’s spent nearly two decades cultivating a sound with no borders—whether through founding Hong Kong’s Fauve Radio and Fauve Re...

From the shadowy basement grooves of early Detroit-tinged techno to the soulful echoes of deep house and Balearic atmospheres, Jayson Wynters’ Phonica mix is a distilled journey through the sounds that animate his DJ sets. A Birmingham native who cut his teeth releasing records like Latitude, Solitude, and Warheads / Exit Wound, Wynters has built a reputation for pacing, depth, and an ear for both...

There’s something quietly magnetic about Duncan Thomas. A London-based producer, live performer and lifelong digger, his sound sits at the crossroads of warm soul, deep groove and harmonic richness. From his early work with TR Trio and Size 8 to recent solo outings on The Check In and his forthcoming label Slam Duncs, Thomas has steadily carved out a space that favours feeling over formula. Whethe...

For this edition of Off The Record, we’re honored to host a mix from Rob Sevier, co-founder of the legendary archival label Numero Group. Known for its meticulous approach to uncovering and reissuing lost gems across soul, funk, punk, ambient, and beyond, Numero has earned its place as a gold standard for crate diggers and curious listeners alike. Sevier, a tireless researcher and selector, brings...

Phonica mix 135 comes in hot from one of the slickest names making waves at the moment. Wallace – the enigmatic alias of UK producer Jimmy Wallace – continues to assert himself as a quietly formidable force in underground house music. Since his 2023 breakthrough Ripples EP on Rhythm Section International, packed with sway-inducing grooves like “Whirl,” “Pump Up The Volume” and “Cenotes,” he’s main...

The Sustain-Release co-founder steps up to the Phonica mix just ahead of the acclaimed festival’s 11th year. New York has an iconic history when it comes to club music, and over the years has seen many great names emerge from its underground scene. In modern times, Aurora Halal is undoubtedly one of those names. Aurora has become a staple at forward-thinking institutions like Berghain, De School,...