For anyone that doesn't know, who are Phase Records and what's been the journey, so far?​

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So Phase Records is my label, my little baby.  We've actually kind of been a thing since lockdown. It wasn't really a label, though - it was more like a community. I just made a Facebook page for people to go and stream on and I met quite a few people that sort of stuck as a main family. Then, one of them was like, to me, 'I don't think I'd be producing or DJing as much if you weren't like, this really annoying, but, motivational stick of dynamite'. They convinced me to make a label and we didn't really do anything other than events and a few free downloads. We're now in our third full year of releasing music, being a proper, established label.

We love all D&B - I'd say the common ground between all of us is we like dark, aggressive themes, kind of like these dark sonic narratives. We actually believe that every sub genre of Drum and Bass does have some of this to its core - we call that middle ground Skatimal.

Skatimal was just a joke that we came up with in Pirate studios one time when we couldn't quite put our finger on the sound. We were like, well, it's got too much to be, too minimal. But it's not so heavy that it's like Belgium Jump Up. It's definitely not Dance Floor - It's scatty, but it's minimal. Like, there's loads to it, but it's minimal. It was just a joke and now people are talking about it!

"I took it as a personal responsibility to bring the underground to Radio One"

Moving onto your Gifta stuff ... You recently did a Drum and Bass Mix for Radio One - how was it to bring your sound to such a huge platform?

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It's always been a goal but I still think that sound that I've got and that we're curating is quite underground and maybe not all of it is for Radio One. So to be asked was a bit of a shock, but also the honour of my life.

Huge, big ups to Charlie Tee for that opportunity, like really I'm so appreciative. I took it as a personal responsibility to bring the underground to Radio One. Her selection is fire every time, she does an incredible job. Her show and her legacy is incredible, the fact that she believed in me and my sound enough, I'm sure she knew that that's what I would bring - it was definitely difficult to like fit everything I wanted to in 30 minutes!

It was also something that my parents could understand, or, friends of mine that aren't into Drum and Bass, they understand how big it is, because it's BBC. So it was lovely to be able to share that with them in a way that was comprehendible. Yeah, it was great.

As someone who brings a lot of energy to their sets, what has been your favourite set to play to date?

You know what? There was one that just came to mind instantly when you asked that question. Not going to doubt my answer. Noisily, yeah. Noisily, festival - my favourite set. I just played five sets in Croatia for Hospitality, I landed back in London, I was in London for 10 hours and drove up to Grantham - I was knackered ... then I was told that I was taken over the decks from Camo and Krooked. Then they told me that they were late, so you're going to be passing the decks onto them - so then I was even more stressed!

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I watched Flava D play, I love Flava D. I watched Hoax play and he really bought the energy, man. I remember turning around and seeing Camo and Krooked stood behind me, like, watching me play. It was just a great set, it was such a great Summer, for me and my label, it just felt like a really kind of pivotal moment. Having said that the first time that I played Teez in September was really nice, because I just had my stint of big shows, so like let's go back and play in the back of a pub, with a banging sound system and people that were pals and take it back to intimate underground vibes - that was also really special.

You also started your Kool FM show recently, how has it been having a slot on such a legendary station?

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Kool FM is so special to me because that's how I used to discover so much DnB. So when it became a thing with Rinse, that was a dream I let go of because that's for the big dons. Now, I've got my little roll out there, and it's literally just an hour of me just going absolutely mental and doing my thing. Yeah, you know what? I'm only three shows in, my fourth one this month - I'm going start having guests every now and again, like giving some of the guys on the label an opportunity to play on Kool and things like that, that I'm looking forward to.

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I'm digging a little deeper as well which is fun, just really enjoying myself and having fun with it. The legacy of like Kool within DnB, to be involved with that is an incredible honour. Something I just never really envisioned happening. I think it's something that if you've been into DnB for a long time, you know that that's an that's such an integral part of our culture, so to be involved in that when it's now part of Rinse is even more big and crazy - it's just something that I'm taking very seriously.