“Titting marvellous! The best dance album since Justice’s debut”
- Front Magazine
"It's been described as an Acid House Bohemian Rhapsody, it takes in 25 styles during it's course, I like it"
- BBC Radio1's Rob da Bank on ‘Learn to Recycle”
“This guy F**ks with all the rules”
- Norman Cook
“Learn to Recycle is six minutes of utterly unique music”
- IDJ
"Phonat has frequently stunned us with his none-more-innovative productions over the last few years, coming across like a hyperactive Daft Punk on happy pills... By the end, you’re exhausted, perplexed, flabbergasted, and left with the feeling that all other music is boring, unimaginative, repetitive trash. Wow. 10/10"
- Data Transmission
Unique, innovative, rule breaking, genre-spanning...just a few of the plaudits that have been used to describe the works of Phonat, the seven foot mop-haired Italian who’s been catching the ears and attention of the ever intangible ‘tastemaking set’.
Annie Mac, Annie Nightingale, Andy George & Jaymo, Rob da Bank, Tiësto and Pete Tong have all been championing the producer since 2008, when singles ‘Incredible Sound’, ‘Ghetto Burning’ and ‘Learn To Recycle’ marked him as one to watch for 2009 and beyond. ‘Learn To Recycle’ was acclaimed as one of the most adventurous pieces of electronic music to be released in 2008 was described as “Bohemiam Rhapsody for the acid house generation”.
Now having released his highly praised debut album, ‘Phonat’, he has created a panoply of chopped up riffs swirled around murky basslines, a world where guitar-driven dancefloor fillers meet bleep-filled fantasies for fun, friendship and possibly more.
Originally from Florence, Italy, Phonat (aka Michele Balduzzi) was first spotted by MofoHifi Records on MySpace and they were so impressed with the 21 year old that the loving label bosses persuaded him to leave his parents’ idyllic country farm outside Florence and move to a bed sit in Canning Town. Armed only with a five-year-old computer and an electric guitar, Phonat dutifully relocated to London in late 2007 and the rest, as they say, is history.
Drawing on every vein of dance music, from hip hop to house, garage to breaks Phonat’s expert use of a vocal hook is also evident, most noticeably on the Yolanda Quartey vocalled ‘Ghetto Burning’ and current single ‘Set Me Free’ – where classic 80s style rock vocals sit atop a stacatto-synthed stomper. Supported by a critically acclaimed video by Amsterdam based Italian artists ‘Two Things’ the track has set Phonat firmly on the map.
One of the standouts from the album, Phonat didn’t skimped on remixers with the first coming courtesy of Avicci, the latest ‘made’ man in the Swedish House Mafia. Proving his pedigree Avicii chops vocals and swirls synths to create a hands in the air Balearic bomb, early copies of which are already becoming staples in the record boxes of the more discerning DJ. Bleeps and basslines are the order of the day on High Rankin’s re-rub as the dubstep dandy leads listeners to the dancefloor, albeit down a slightly murkier back route, before Louis La Roche’s Reconstruction adds a tougher, twisted edge to complete the package
Phonat may have arrived on the scene late last year, but with DJ bookings and remix requests coming in from across the world and his album just hitting the streets, 2010 is set to be an busy year for the big Italian.
Hey Phonat, how are you doing? I'm Spitfire, and I'm hoping to be a Music Producer and a DJ. I love your song Ghetto Burnin', i thought it was a very awesome song. I was wondering if you had the lyrics to it at all? It'd make my day if you could send them to me. But don't go too out of you're way for me thought.
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