On my way to making an altogether different mix tape, I fell in with a bunch of freaks and misfits, slipped down sideshow alley and ended up running away with the techno circus. I hope you enjoy the result, a shape shifting, somewhat amorphous journey through beats, bleeps and bottom end…

Running Away With The Techno Circus

Phil has been a fixture on the Australian electronic music scene for over 30 years. He’s played lots of records to lots of people in lots of clubs, bars, warehouses, fields, deserts, basements, carparks and bunkers over the years. He’s renowned for playing fresh sounds and forward thinking electronic music, and has been involved in putting on some of the most legendary parties and events in Sydney and beyond.

Voted Australian DJ Of The Year at the National Dance Music Awards in 2000, and twice voted into DJ Magazine's prestigious list of the worlds Top 100 DJs.

He’s played at all the premier events around Australia and held an infamous long-standing residency at Tweekin, the Sydney clubbing institution voted Best Club Night at the 2000 Dance Music Awards and described by DJ Magazine in the UK as "coming under the very short list of proper clubs around the world".

Phil has been chosen to play alongside a diverse range of visiting in Australia and has played all over the world, including London, Berlin, Mexico, Asia and across the USA. 

Co-founder of record labels Think and Thunk, he’s also released original material and remixes under various guises on labels like Motorik, Junkbeats and Future Classic.

Musical Providore.
Sound not Scene.
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Vinyl Junkie.

Over the years I’ve been fortunate enough to have supported the likes of Robert Hood, Mixmaster Morris, Funkineven, Recloose, Mark de Clive Lowe, Raf Daddy, Linkwood, Kid Sublime, Inkswel, Pablo Valentino, Ray Velasquez, Steven Roberts… music has all the answers!

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Running Away With The Techno Circus

Phil Smart