Phantasy

Out now on 12" vinyl + digitally: lnk.to/UPH102 An infrequent but invigorating contributor to Phantasy, U returns with a beguiling new single entitled ‘Ecstasy’. Initially available as a limited pressing with a sleeve designed and printed by U themselves, this haunting return promises to draw the curious into two divine rhythms, transferring unknowable forces and mysterious energies. The first sid...

Lupini has slowly, quietly established herself as a pivotal figure in Liverpool’s alternative music scene. Recently introduced to a wider audience via her recent NTS residency (already a firm favourite at Phantasy HQ), she’s known in Merseyside as a DJ, promoter, radio station manager and all-round enthusiast of no small repute. As is obvious, Lupini’s life revolves around music, and in turn, musi...

Brimming with energy and optimism, Kasper Marott contributes to our #PHANTASYMIX series with a high-energy techno trip full of character. Kasper Marrott has been fascinated with dance music since his teenage years in the Danish countryside, programming music since the age of ten and dreaming of big, bouncing dancefloors. Far removed from the Deadmau5 copycat tunes he made on Fruity Loops throughou...

One of the most prolific and charismatic producers emerging from the US underground, Sepehr trips fast through the fringes of electro, acid and DnB in the latest electrifying contribution to our #PHANTASYMIX series. Read the short accompanying interview here: https://shop.phantasysound.co.uk/blogs/news/phantasymix-34-sepehr

Yr Lovely Dead Moon does not do things as one might expect. The performance and production project of Rachel Margetts travelled alongside it’s creator to far flung corners of Europe, from the North-East of England to the DIY art scene of Estonia, before landing in Berlin, where this engrossing and occasionally head-spinning contribution to #PHANTASYMIX was recorded. Yr Lovely Dead Moon transfers h...

One of London's finest club DJs, Josh Caffe rounds out 2020 in our #PHANTASYMIX series with an hour of seductive house and techno pleasure for your end of year enjoyment. An imaginary dark room soundtracked by the likes of DJ Hell, Carisma, Violet, Lady Blacktronica and former collaborators Paranoid London. Read the short accompanying interview with Josh Caffe here: https://shop.phantasysound.co.u...

Lou Hayter has been a recognisable face on the London music scene since the mid-noughties, when she rose to prominence as part of the ludicrously stylish Mercury nominated electro-pop band, New Young Pony Club. Since then, she has maintained a presence at the always-evolving intersection between music and fashion, building a reputation as a DJ as comfortable at peak-time in the basement of XOYO as...

One of Berlin's most diverse and talented DJs and resident at the cult RIOT queer party series, we're pleased to welcome Ady Toledano as the thirtieth contributor to #PHANTASYMIX. Read the short accompanying interview here: https://shop.phantasysound.co.uk/blogs/news/phantasymix-30-ady-toledano

Valesuchi is much tuned into the necessary physicality and community of dance music, “choosing people’s bodies as a limitless answer.” A fixture across Brazil’s lively club scene, long since proving herself as one of the country’s wiliest and most intuitive selectors, she has shifted fluidly not only between the lively but divergent city scenes of Santiago and Rio De Janeiro, but also maintained a...

ELLES may be a relative newcomer on the London scene, but her sound and discography already makes an impression. This is a run that continues on her contribution to #PHANTASYMIX, undoubtedly one of our most inventive entries yet. Whilst ELLES’ releases thus far have have found an open-hearted queer futurism in the legacy of UK rave and especially UK garage (see ‘Put On Our Classics’ from the ‘summ...

Atlanta-based producer Stranded melts boundaries between post-punk, Midwestern house and trip-hop to vital effect in the latest edition of our #PHANTASYMIX series. Inspired by a lifelong fascination with dance-music centered cities such as Detroit, Berlin and Manchester, Stranded’s own music sits at odds with the soundtrack of Atlanta, where a sprawling scene is traditionally dominated by hip-hop...

Based in Berlin, J. Wiltshire has been active since 2016, producing a string of sometimes complex, always charismatic and memorable club records that incorporate elements of acid, IDM, techno and electro. These occasional transmissions have appeared on labels such as Hypercolour and his own, memorably titled Super Hexagon Records. DJ and producer J. Wiltshire delivers an absorbing, unexpected thre...

Toshiki Ohta has been immersed in rave culture for thirty years. One of London's most knowledgeable DJs delivers a propulsive hour-long session as the latest contributor to our ongoing #PHANTASYMIX series. Read the short interview we did with Toshiki here – https://shop.phantasysound.co.uk/blogs/news/phantasymix-25-toshiki-ohta

Jordan has been DJing for a long time. More than half his lifetime, in fact. While most of us were studying for our high school exams, Jordan was zipping across Ireland with a roped-in mate, playing all manner of rowdy clubs, often lacking the ID requirements that would typically get him bounced from the door. What’s more, he wasn’t a national sensation with a hit single, he just fucking loved it....

Baldo Gallego lives an exciting dual life on the Barcelona club scene. A longtime Razzmatazz resident as Baldo, his tough, halcyon techno productions as BLD have created an underground stir. He adopts this persona for the latest edition of #PHANTASYMIX, providing an hour-long mix of techno, rave and breakbeat energy.

Formed in New York in 2008, and now based in London, The Golden Filter have existed on the undulating musical fringes of electro, disco and post-punk for over a decade. Consisting of the creative and romantic partnership of Penelope Trapps and Stephen Hindman, the past few years have been the band enjoy their widest success yet. Releasing not only on their own 4gn3s imprint, but Optimo Music and D...

Pris has been present and correct on the techno scene since 2013, initially making an impact on Resin and later releasing across tastemaking, singular labels such as Avian and Semantica. Pris’s music has always had a vulnerable quality weaved into powerful, dynamic tracks that became favourites amongst many of the vanguard of the scene and on vast, demanding sound systems. This unusual, sometimes...

Helping cement her reputation as one of the UK's strongest emerging DJ talents, Sally C's bumping contribution to the #PHANTASYMIX series draws on obscure nineties house through to ruthless contemporary techno, mixed with physical flair and real personality. Expect sixty minutes of undistilled dancefloor pleasure. Check out our brief interview with Sally C, here: phantasy-sound.lnk.to/blog Follow...

The past few years have seen a new-wave of exciting and daring parties re energise the Manchester scene, many taking place at the now notorious White Hotel and often within a daring continuum of queer and alternative rave culture. Alongside the likes of Kiss Me Again, High Hoops and the timeless Homoelectric, Body Horror has made sheer impact with occasional but unforgettable transmissions of filt...

Timothy Clerkin has long been a staple figure of the UK club scene. His new EP for Ransom Note Records, 'Unborn', establishes his vision as a forward-thinking force in UK acid house. For his #PHANTASYMIX, Clerkin explores the sounds and producers currently inspiring his incredible live set and productions. Read our brief interview with Timothy Clerkin here, then buckle up: http://phantasy-sound.ln...

Born in Venezuela and long-since based in Barcelona, Cardopusher has established himself as one of the most consistent and versatile heads in the city’s bubbling underground, with a sound that has travelled far-and-wide to labels such as Hyperdub, Boys Noize, Super Rhythm Trax and more recently, Dark Entries. Cardopusher urges things in a similarly frenetic direction for our #PHANTASYMIX series, d...

One of dance music's most endearing outsiders, Charlotte Bendiks is the latest contributor to the #phantasymix series, delivering an hour of energetic, charismatic club music, featuring almost-unknown DJs and producers through to established names such as Avalon Emerson and Paula Temple. Charlotte lets us in on the somewhat depressing secrets of Norwegian drinking culture, the pressure of curating...

Dark Circles have only been releasing music over the past few years, each time with infrequency but serious impact, and always on their own, specially tailored imprint, DC Trax. They also nailed a weird and wonderful remix of Phantasy’s own Future Four (a creative partnership between Erol Alkan and The Emperor Machine founder, Andy Meecham), which has become a go-to selection for the likes of Gerd...

Justin Cudmore is flawless when it comes to bringing a party to boil with energy, showcasing a natural education in dance music’s history, and a party-friendly sound that has an infectious of timeless futurism about it. This is best heard in his records for Honey Soundsystem, Interdimensional Transmission and The Bunker, but also on his very fresh, very jackin’ contribution as the latest guest on...

The latest edition of #phantasymix comes courtesy of Andrew Thomson, founder of Glasgow’s @huntleyspalmers. Recorded in anxious anticipation of what transpired to be a barnstorming gig at Georgia’s legendary Bassiani club, the mix finds Thomson on particularly diverse form, taking musical risks that pay off hugely at the epicentre of one of the world’s most exciting dance music scenes. Hear the mi...