PHASEONE – SUGAR from Vadim Gershman on Vimeo. “Sugar” is one of the best videos you’ll see all year. There are no trendy abstractions and no frills. There are no people riding llamas or shock value tactics. It is an epilogue framed in fast-moving cars and black and white stripes. Last goodbyes in choppy illiterate […]

For the past two years, Phaseone has released mixes that perfectly coincide with the onset of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Anyone afflicted will tell you they notice an almost immediate change in mood after Daylight Saving Time ends. Even in Los Angeles where it’s relatively warm throughout the winter, the melatonin deficiency triggers a natural preference […]

Phaseone e-mailed last week to ask me if I knew the cut mixed in at the 28 minute mark of Teebs’ 2 a.m. wine mix. Before I could even respond, he already had the answer. Not bad. I presume it was Teebs’s “Humming Birds,” which made its way onto the St. Louis producer’s latest stellar […]

Like all good producers, phaseone’s remixes are reinterpretations.  Raekwon removed from his concrete criminology raps and placed afloat an aqueous ambient sample from Blind Man’s Colour. Bon Iver’s wood-cutter hymns wrapped inside El-P’s apocalyptic abandoned building aesthetic. Rich Boy over some greasy synth-funk. Panda Bear given some snapping Southern-sounding drums. YoungbloodZ drawling over a bass-heavy […]