Phoenecia 's Romulo Del Castillo and Joshua Kay met in a sound recording class session at a nearby college and quickly found common ground through their mutual affinity for Herbie Hancock, Detroit techno, early Warp records, and hand percussionists such as Glen Velez and Zakir Hussain. The duo released their first album, "Tone Capsule", under the name Soul Oddity on Astralwerks in 1996. The major label flavor did not prove appealing for them and so they formed The Schematic Music Company as a sort of artists´ forum where vigorous originality and endemic aural identity could flourish. After several solo releases on Schematic, the pair released "Randa Roomet" on Warp in 1997, their first published recording as Phoenecia. "Brownout", their most recent album represents a more organic, sublime approach.

Del Castillo and Kay always seem to find themselves lodged in the proverbial cracks. In ever-progressive flux, their constructs veer from brutal street urbanity to subtle internalized musicality. With their first releases mirroring the thick groove of Miami bass, the boys recorded sound has evolved with mindfulgrace into a wholly cerebral labyrinth of space and vision. Yet when seen live, Phoenecia brazenly injects whatever of their myriad palette suits the mood. This, after all, is the same formula for all of the music they have chosen to unleash upon the world.