Please meet London based DJ and producer, former Cafe Del Mar resident, and our long time close friend Phil Mison (@cantomamusic). Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Phil, many know you as one of the DJ's who has played all the best sunset spots across the globe. How did your summer look this year, still been scoring sunsets here and there?

PM: My summer was great. I travelled to Amsterdam, Cork, Copenhagen and Barcelona and had some nice gigs in the UK. My friend Deke has opened a bar on the seafront in Margate, you get pretty epic sunsets down there. I played a few records one evening and managed to fit in a few old cafe classics as the sun disappeared into the sea. 

MFM: Please tell us a bit about how it all started for you?

PM: I grew up in the 70’s, so there were quite a few different influences. David Bowie ‘Life On Mars’ was an early memory, and I was obsessed with Blondie. Parallel lines was the first album I bought. Later it was Northern Soul, Electro, nothing really that mellow! In 87 I met a couple of people who were really into House. I started going to groove records in soho to buy records like Adonis - No Way Back, Ten City - Devotion. Then as 88 rolled around I got into the more Balearic side of things. Later in 89 I’d pop into Reckless Records for second hand stuff and started to browse the New Age section where I got things like Kitaro  ‘Tunhuang’ and Paul Greaver ‘Joy’. Those records were the starting point really. 

MFM: DJing in clubs to make people dance never really attracted you?

PM: I’d say pretty much most of my DJing has been in clubs. I started at the Milk Bar in Soho in 1992 after giving Darren Emerson a tape. Even though I was doing the warm up and playing mellow stuff at the beginning, you had to build it up to a full dance floor by the end. In 1996 and 2000 I was the tour DJ for Lefttfield, playing in front of 1000 odd people. ‘Just get it going before we come on!’ Alongside Ross Allen and Rob Da Bank, I was resident at Bar Rhumba for our Next Level night in 1997. It lasted a year and we opened with Harvey and closed with Andrew Weatherall. I Have to mention Moonboots and Jason Boardman’s night Aficionado too. I always enjoyed playing to a dancefloor there, they’ve kept the Balearic flag flying since 1998. 

MFM: At what point did you got into making music on your own? 

PM: I’d worked on a project for Kenneth Bager in 1994. Then later on he started his Music For Dreams Label, and asked me if I would be interested in making an album.  So the first Cantoma album was started in Copenhagen in 1999, and finished in London in 2003. 

MFM: How do you come up with a new song, is there a certain Phil Mison way to it? Do you write the parts for the musicians?

PM: It usually starts with an idea that pops into my head. Sometimes a memory or travelling will get a melody going, and I’ll sometimes hum it into my phone and use that as a starting point. Ive worked with Engineer/Producer Robin Twelftree on all the Cantoma albums. I’ll go into Robin’s studio and usually start with some basic keyboards, then I’ll play a bassline in. I’ll take the demos away and think about what would work on the tracks. For some musicians the music is written down. Ive worked with Robin Lee from Faze Action on a few Cantoma tunes, and he usually transcribes my basic melodies onto sheet music. Other times I’ll play the melodies on a keyboard or hum the tunes for the musicians to follow along to. On some tracks I’ll write the lyrics too and get a singer to record on a track. There’s a lot of going back and forth until I’m happy with the final cut. The music rarely ends up sounding like the first version.

MFM: Making a mix must have been a piece of cake for you :) What is this mix like?

PM: I went back through my 92-94 selection and picked a selection of the lesser played records. Memories of magic times at the Milk Bar and warm summer evenings at the Cafe del mar.

MFM Mix 044: Phil Mison

With a few hundred pairs of feet we danced together to the same rhythm like a millipede, being as happy as a june bug flying into some sun-freckled girl's hair. 

My set from Zmar Festival #3, friday night.
Thank you @zmarfestival

Frinda di Lanco @ Zmar Festival 2024

Per Amžius Ambient @ Radio Vilnius 04.24 w/ Marijus Klimaitis & Nic Arizona

1part Marijus Klimaitis
2part Nic Arizona

Per Amžius Ambient 04.24 w/ Marijus Klimaitis & Nic Arizona

Sounds in Waves - Episode 28

Horsebeach - Midnight
K. Leimer - Auf Einem Fahrrad
Greg Foat - Island Life
Joe Morris - Emerald Mountain
Statues - Pilina - (NOTI Remix)
Morgan Szymanski and Tommy Perman – Canción del Adiós
Kiu Tu Ets El Meu Amic - Un Dia Especial
Diane Birch - In It For The Race
Statues - Lessons (Coyote remix)
Mudd - Massimo's Steps
Simon Peter - Arc Of Lark (Layne's Night Vision Mix)
Toto - Africa (Rune Lindbæk edit)

Sounds in Waves - Episode 28

Founder of Tiger RadioShow
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Vlad Mikeev - Autumn Leaves for PZDC (Moscow)

'Prime Time' Sunset Balearic House pleasures!

Sunset Dance

ARTIST: TRONIK YOUTH 		          RECORD LABEL: NEIN RECORDS 

Tronik Youth is Neil Parnell well respected DJ, Producer and label boss of Nein Records in the UK. Tronik Youth has released numerous singles and Hundreds of remixes over the last decade, He has released two albums also to much acclaim....He has also released three albums of ambient/drone music under his own name also, and His debut album “Youth is wasted on the Young” featuring Factory Floor’s Gabe Gurnsey on drums was released in July 2015. This year he is about to release a new EP called Full Tilt Boogie and recently released a new EP with producer Stockholm Syndrome as Stockholm Youth on Melomama 

The Nein record label he owns and runs includes esteemed artists such as Black Light Smoke, Roe Deers,  Two Mamarrachos, Emperor Machine,  and Curses He was voted in the top 30 artists in Beatport’s Indie Dance Genre and his label Nein was in the websites top ten labels….Nein was also in Resident Advisors top 100 charted labels in the last decade

Eccentric and unpredictable, this artist remains at the top of his game, signing the best underground talent from around the world to Nein records, releasing pure quality evident in all the Tronik Youth productions, mixes and DJ sets.
He was recently Resident Advisor mix of the day
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eclectics mix - 187 | Tronik Youth | Sept 2025 |


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Giuseppe Curcio | Pace in Stereo #25  - Radio Bollwerk - 28.09.2025

a few many more DYSFUNCTIONAL DISCO
Dysfunctional Disco - #10 - October 2025

with dysfunctional tracks of Il est villaine, Vox Low, Dj Fitness, Miles J Paralysis, Nic Arizona, Munir Nadir, Remain, and many more


here it is...

Nic Arizona & L.A Teen - Bruja
Dj Fitness - C2
Junior Boys - Work  (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
Nicola Cruz - Kojix
Miles J Paralysis - Where Do We Come From?
Shonky - Obelix
Munir Nadir - Give Me A Second (VINYL ONLY)
Costello - Fresh Flesh
Rework - Wanted a talk (VINYL ONLY)
Il Est Vilaine - SURF RIDER (Edit)
VoX LoW - Something is Wrong (Boot & Tax Remix)
Aline Umber - Emergency Live Cut
Remain & Mufti - Rouge Again (VINYL ONLY)
Matthew Dear - Little People (Black City) (Sascha Dive Dub Remix)
Pablo Cahn - elle
Succulent - Chin Up
Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Carl Craig Rmx)
unknown - untitled - turbo dux
Malin Genie & Frits Wentink - Exopaq

GBDT - Dysfunctional Disco #10

Chill Out remixed/re edited and reworked. Big respect to the creators.

The KLP - Spill Out (Redux)

Tiger's Lovely Trip to Soviet Union

booking yo pzdcteam@gmail.com 

will play as long as your dick!

see ya somwere in woods, warehouses, river beaches, moscow gay saunas and near kremlin

Vlad Mikeev - Autumn Leaves for PZDC (Moscow)

Pzdc Sound System