With what was mostly a full and fruitful year for us with many beautiful moments, we now turn our eyes forward to what is looking to be a very exciting year for us at Phonica as we walk into our 20th year of being alive. 2022 saw our mix series get even more killer contributions from artists like Paramida, Sally C, Fred P, Eden Burns, Alex Kassian, Erol Alkan and more. 2023's series line up plans to keep moving up and we have opened this years mix season in the capable hands of two of the finest DJ/Producers doing it right now. Bringing nothing but powerful, euphoric and goddess energies it can only be Octo Octa and Eris Drew of T4T Luv NRG. Amazingly celebrated for their strand of psychedelic, rolling progressive, trancey-house and break rhythms we can't think of two better selector's to take on our series. With an excellently curated compilation and mix for our good friends at Fabric last year as well as two banging cassettes on T4T we can't begin to imagine what this year has in-store for Maya and Eris but we have no doubt it's even more on the upward trajectory! Most likely to the heavens and back! We had a chat with Maya and Eris to see what they have been up to lately and little about how they approached the mix.

Interview Here

Phonica Mix Series 103: Octo Octa & Eris Drew

Inspired by my memories in Kyoto in spring 2023.

'Spring In Kyoto' Mix

Live recording from Into the Woods festival, Amersfoort, The Netherlands September 2023

Cromby Live @ Into The Woods Festival 16/09/23

** You can buy a cassette or digital download of the mix on our bandcamp**
https://erisdrew.bandcamp.com/album/raving-disco-breaks-vol-ii-rock-the-house

T4T LUV NRG is about to rock your stereo this spring with a sequel to the label’s first release “Raving Disco Breaks Vol. I” (2018). Eris Drew wanted to create a new sound for the second volume of her acclaimed mixtape series instead of simply retracing the pure disco vibes of the original. Setting her sights and intentions on creating a rock ‘n’ roll infected house mix, Eris worked on building crates for the last five years, finally reaching an inflection point—a moment of concrescence—when she was ready to put the needle on the records and let the beats flow. “Rock The House” was born, a concept for Volume II built from musical fragments, memories, and synchronicities. There are no classic Big Beat tunes on Volume II, instead Eris kicks out the jams for this mix with non-stop house and breaks cuts featuring plenty of rockin’ vocal vamps, as well as the likes of Janis Jopin, Joe Strummer, Ramones, and Led Zeppelin—all sampled, scratched and dropped along the way. Both sides of the mix include some of her most personally coveted recordings. To gather these records, Eris spent decades identifying tracks from older mix cassettes recorded by her DJ heroes, such as Terry Mullan and Mystic Bill, as well as discovering many of the featured tracks through happenstance and countless hours digging through dusty bins and YouTube rips. Each of the tracks on Volume II are at least 20 years old—some much older—but fresh is the word here, and the word is freeeesh!

Now, as the snow melts and the flowers of rave romance start to bloom, T4T wants to know one thing…Are U ready to rock right?

Eris Drew's Raving Disco Breaks Vol. II - Rock The House

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/TheMix043EDOO

For 2024’s final instalment of The Mix, @eris-drew & @octoocta provide an hour of Motherbeat-infused ecstacy

"We wanted to do a proper, 128 BPM house mix. Our very ecstatic, house energy mix. It’s going to be just over an hour, because we want it to be in that radiant space for the entire time and play some of our older favourites, as well as newer favourites from our record bag over this past year. We’re not like ‘track of the week’ DJs, when we love something, it’s getting played over the span of a few years, sometimes even 10 years."

Tracklist + Q&A

The Mix 043: Eris Drew & Octo Octa

Giorgio Menegatti, Seed Selector - Não Para (Original Mix)

Recorded live and mostly with vinyl at Fäncy Ferienlager nearby Leipzig in summer 2025.
Felt the love at this festival... <3
ENJOY YOUR SUMMER!

Tracklisting: 

1. Quadrakey - Ly Move (Original)
2. Please Don’t Dance (Detroit Swindle’s Basement Dub)
3. Retromigration - Cloudin
4. Make A Dance - Down
5. Fennec - Grilled Romaine
6. Tino - Tinto
7. Glenn & Derrick - Got It Going On
8. Clive From Accounts - Maceo
9. Make A Dance - Young Man (Club Dub 909)
10. Lazer Man- Boogie Dawn
11. Emi Ömar - Chut Hello
12. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Your Love (Waze & Odyssey Remix)
13. Emi Ömar - Beat A Stick
14. Ed Davenport - Suntazia
15. Eliphino - It’s Hard To Say
16. Central - One Thing I’m Not
17. Tommy Vicari JNR - Six 2 Ten
18. Fennec - Message To Earth
19. Anoesis - Vision Off
20. Thee Church Ov Acid House - Theme (Move D & D-Man Last Train To Buffalo Remix)
21. Loxodrome - Drop Out
22. M-High - 12 O.C Riddim
23. Gallegos - Memories You’ve Memorized
24. KAOS - Definition Of Love (Extended Vocal Mix)
25. Siggatunez - Been Lovin’ You
26. Böhm - Land Of Lost
27. Frits Wentink & Malin Genie - Ambrosia
28. Jarle Bråthen - No Restaurants
29. Eden Burns - Yes You Sexy
30. Tino - Set You Free
31. Eddie C & Keita Sano - Joy Joy Joy
32. Everything Is Recorded - Porcupine Tattoo (feat. Noah Cyrus & Bill Callahan) (DJ Koze Remix)

nd_baumecker @ FÄNCY FERIENLAGER 2025

RA.1000 launches with Theo Parrish, live at fabric: a vanishingly rare club mix from the king of deep crates and impossible transitions.

There are DJ sets and then there are Theo sets. No matter how many times you've caught him in action, every time still feels like the first. Running hot, levels smoking, isolator working over time. You think you know dance music? Think again.

Parrish's debut on the RA Podcast is a milestone for the series, one we've sought for over 15 years. So it was only right that Theo led off our 1000th celebrations. Recorded live at fabric last December as part of RA's party with the London club for their 25th anniversary, this three-hour segment documents the crescendo of his eight-hour marathon. 

The Detroit legend doesn't release mixes often, and when he does, they're usually studio recordings: think NTS shows, his 100% Detroit edition of DJ-Kicks or classic tapes Body (1997) and Methods of Movement (2000). A capture of the Sound Signature boss on the dancefloor is hard to come by.

Sure, there's galvanising build-ups and crowd-pleasers, but laced throughout a Parrish beatdown are rarities designed to shock the system. In a business dominated by marketing, the vinyl master towers above thanks to a relentless hunger for lustrous melodies, moods and textures of all stripes, which he and he alone can fold into an inspiring and exhilarating joyride.

On RA.1000, blissful reggae precedes new wave disco; '80s R&B morphs into synthy techno; bleepy Chicago jack makes way for a poignant vocal ballad. It's Theo through and through. Once again, he proves that anything and everything is possible with the right records.

@theoparrish @fabric @soundsignaturedetroit @crownruler

Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Theo Parrish

U Have To Understand

Harvey Sarcastic Disco Volume 2

An uplifting ode to queerness and love.

Read more: https://ra.co/podcast/769

@octoocta

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.769 Octo Octa

Devon (TORUS | Japan )
Bookings:  devon.torus [at] gmail.com

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Raised in both East and West, Devon is an emerging artist with significant early exposure to music performance and production in Japan. Her musical journey began at the age of three, when she started playing classical piano. Ever since, she has been deeply immersed in the world of music.

Devon’s DJ style seamlessly integrates elements from a diverse array of genres, including house, disco, techno, electro, new wave, synth pop, and the psychedelic sounds of post-war United States, all infused with her unique touch. Her rhythms carry an exhilarating energy tinged with a hint of psychedelia. While guiding audience into an emotionally immersive world, she consistently surprises them with her free-spirited approach.