Phonica Records

London DJ and Phonica Records staff member Tia Radkiewicz brings a deep-rooted love of house and techno to her Friends & Family mix, drawing on the German and Dutch minimal scenes of the mid-to-late 2000s. Alongside her work at the shop, Tia has also stepped behind the decks for Phonica’s Rinse FM shows, with a taste shaped by years of record digging and an appreciation for music that moves betwee...

Short Span is the Sheffield label founded by Matthew Kent, whose years spent running the influential Blowing Up The Workshop mix series and co-running Mana have given the imprint a deep-rooted sense of curation, connection and musical curiosity. Since launching in 2025, the label has built a distinctive catalogue around dubbed-out techno, ambient, house and experimental electronics, with releases...

Black Bones have spent years making a virtue of the unexpected. The Belfast duo of Aaron Black and Timmy Stewart first came together through a shared obsession with records, eventually turning that chemistry into a much-loved series of edits, releases for the likes of Optimo, Hoga Nord, Duca Bianco and Emotional Response, and DJ sets that refuse to sit neatly in one box. Their Off The Record mix f...

Tom Sharkett has spent the last few years carving out a distinctly wonky route between Manchester’s DIY scene and the dancefloor, as a founding member of W. H. Lung and a producer in his own right, with releases on Optimo Music, Okay Nature and Ransom Note Records, collaborations with System Olympia and Raf Rundell, and remixes for the likes of Pip Blom, Glok, Nation of Language and Nightbus. His...

With a growing reputation for mood-lifting selections that refuse to sit neatly in one box, Sarahtonin has spent the last few years moving between the dancefloor, radio booth and festival circuit with the same broad-minded approach to music. A Low Life resident since 2023, she’s played alongside the likes of Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton and Optimo, while appearances at Glastonbury, Love Internat...

There are DJs who build a reputation through big releases, and then there are those who earn it one dancefloor at a time. Harri Pepper falls firmly into the latter. Equally at home behind the counter at Jelly Records as he is behind a pair of turntables, he's spent the past few years becoming a familiar name across the UK's most discerning parties, with appearances at Fabric, Houghton, Gottwood, G...

Some mixes are snapshots of the present; others trace a much longer arc. Benedikt Frey's contribution to Off The Record belongs firmly to the latter. Built around jungle records he first bought as a teenager, it's a deeply personal excursion that reconnects with the sounds that shaped his musical identity. That sense of history has long defined Frey's approach—as a DJ, producer and label co-founde...

Not many selectors embody the quiet, obsessive spirit of record culture quite like Australian DJ Nick Gencarelli a.k.a Gencia (Commonly known in the shop as Nick G). Having spent the last few years behind our counter at Phonica Records while steadily building his own reputation as a discerning digger, radio host and party curator, Gencia has become a trusted conduit between forgotten boogie, leftf...

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...