Phonica Records

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, euphoric and meticulously dialled-in. As co-founder of Suckerpunch, his output has become synonymous with a particularly UK strain of playful club pressure: plinky-plonky tech house, sleazy breakbeat mutations, trance-laced curveballs and the kind of late-session heaters that sound best when the afters should’ve ended three hours ago. His contribution to the Phonica mix series captures that energy in full — moving from wiggy, weird tackle into full emotional depletion territory, stitched together with unreleased cuts, razor-sharp digging instincts and the same restless dancefloor sensibility that’s made him one of the most exciting names currently orbiting the UK underground.

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 momentum — a joyful ride packed with treasured classics, festival-ready energy, and the tracks that have been soundtracking her recent dancefloor moments. It’s a mix that mirrors her world entirely: emotionally rich, intuitively curated, and rooted in connection. Across the accompanying interview, she reflects on formative records, treasured friendships, healing rituals, and the euphoric chaos of stepping into her first full festival season — offering a glimpse into the person behind one of London’s most quietly distinctive underground voices.

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 Heideglühen, as well as being a firm favourite in Ibiza, regularly playing clubs like Amnesia, Pikes and 528. Her recent USA tour saw her play in New York, Chicago, and Detroit, and her most recent release on her label Find Your Own Records also features remixes from Chicago and Detroit, honouring her affinity with those cities that started it all...

Her Phonica Friends & Family mix is a carefully curated journey through multiple influences, with a timeless feel, a mix of music past, present and future, that will still sound as good in 10 years as it does today. A journey through deep house, classic cuts, and forthcoming gems. The mix also includes her next release out this week! So grab your copy now from the Phonica store.

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 Highlife and his ongoing output via his own imprint A State Of Flo have cemented a reputation for weaving Afro-diasporic influences with electronic music’s more exploratory edges, while appearances at spaces like Fabric and Panorama Bar underline his fluency across both intimate and heavyweight dancefloors. Whether playing sunrise sets in the Arctic Circle or all-night sessions back home, there’s a through-line in Auntie Flo’s work: rhythm as a shared language, patiently unfolded.

For his Phonica Records mix, that ethos comes into sharp focus. Drawing from both fresh discoveries and personal archive, the set folds in three unreleased productions—including a forthcoming collaboration with Tony Morris—while echoing the deeper, more percussive territories he’s been exploring in recent club sets. Shaped loosely by a recent Berlin performance, it moves with a steady, hypnotic pulse: vibey, fluid, and quietly expansive. Like much of his work, it’s less about peaks and more about immersion—a snapshot of where Auntie Flo sits right now, as a selector and producer still driven by the joy of digging, storytelling, and sound system communion.

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 across Europe. Their Phonica mix leans into that same hazy, transportive energy: a collage shaped by long-haul sessions in Berlin and Düsseldorf, stitched together with their now-signature live vocal manipulations via harmonica mic and tape-style echo. It’s a mix that feels less like a straight recording and more like a lived-in artefact — part diary, part dream sequence — tracing the outer edges of their influences, from deep UK electronics to the kind of oddball, system-driven moments that tend to define their most memorable sets.

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 showcase and more like a self-portrait in motion: deep, textural, and deliberately unhurried. Drawing from a shared instinct for digging—whether that’s Bohdan’s fixation on overlooked vintage records or Oleksii’s algorithmic wanderings through forgotten corners of the internet—the mix carries that same sense of rediscovery, where every track feels unearthed rather than placed. There’s a quiet emotional weight running through it too, shaped inevitably by distance and memory, echoing the kind of closeness they recall from early sets like Natura festival—moments that now feel suspended in time.

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 beloved Pleasuremaxxx parties and hold a residency at the queer institution Lovemuscle—their reach has quickly extended across Europe, with appearances at iconic venues such as Berghain and Panorama Bar, as well as parties and collaborations alongside Berlin tastemakers Sound Metaphors. On the production front, Subaru debuted on CWPT with the 2024 Lots Of Love EP—featuring a remix from Prins Thomas—before returning with the punchy indie-dance 12" Dog in 2025, continuing to carve out a distinct sonic identity shaped by punk attitude and disco romanticism. For Off The Record 062, Subaru distils the records currently fuelling their dancefloors—imagining a packed room of dancers while recording at home—delivering an hour of favourites from their bag right now, stitched together with the same warmth and intuition that’s made them one of the most exciting selectors to emerge from the UK underground in recent years.

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 as he is sun-drenched Adriatic terraces. A longtime affiliate of scene-shaping figures such as Andrew Weatherall—who personally invited him to play New Year’s Eve 2019 in London in a career-defining moment—Chez’s sound draws on deep, psychedelic currents and leftfield club pressure in equal measure. His new label, Club Blanco, signals the next chapter: a platform for forward-thinking club music, including forthcoming heat from A.Wild, while further cementing his place within a lineage of selectors who prize individuality and depth. Recorded club-style in a single take, the Phonica mix reflects the records he’s been hammering lately—many sourced from Phonica’s own racks—stitched together with the instinctive, chaotic precision that has defined his approach for over 15 years behind the decks.

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, Macadam Mambo, CockTail d'Amore, Rotating Souls and Forest Jams — each release another breadcrumb from his sprawling archive, meticulously documented on Discogs. His sets have carried that sensibility from formative overseas appearances at Hugs & Kisses in Melbourne to extended runs across Europe, Australia and Asia, always guided by the same open-eared philosophy: no genre borders, just feeling. This mix, pieced together from records found while DJing in Seoul, late-night Osaka digs and long-held shelf treasures, leans into a ’90s cosmic lineage — ambient techno dissolving into early trance atmospherics — a subtle left turn in tone perhaps, but unmistakably Mori Ra: deep, romantic and quietly transportive.

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 wider discography and long-running studio practice have helped shape a sound that’s both functional and emotionally tuned. As a DJ, Pancratio has played across Europe and beyond, appearing at respected clubs and festivals and sharing line-ups with influential selectors including Craig Richards, James Zabiela, Simone de Kunovich and Edward, while also hosting and curating his own nights. This Phonica mix captures him at full strength: big-room, tech-leaning anthems designed for impact, underpinned by clear nods to Chicago’s jacking rhythms and Detroit’s timeless, soulful machine funk.