Phoenecia's Romulo Del Castillo and Joshua Kay (USA) met in a sound recording class session at a college and quickly found common ground through their mutual affinity for Herbie Hancock, and hand percussionists such as Glen Velez and Zakir Hussain. After recording several solo releases on their own Schematic label, the band issued their first official Phoenicia recording, „Randa Roomet“, on Warp in 1997.