Phase —

Bram Schrooyen, known professionally as Phase, is a producer and DJ from Ghent, Belgium. His work sits inside drum and bass and jungle while drawing on adjacent styles listed in his catalogue: liquid funk, IDM, minimal techno, footwork, UK garage/uk funky, grime and vocal jazz among others. Phase began releasing music around 2013. He has put out a string of EPs and singles across the 2010s and early 2020s and issued his debut LP, Shore To Shore, on Goldie’s Metalheadz; the album was released on April 22, 2022. Over the course of his career he has released on a wide range of labels, including Metalheadz, Critical, Hospital, CIA, Shogun, Spearhead, Dispatch, Integral, Warm Communications, Horizons, Med School and Demand. He has toured Europe, North America and Japan. Stylistically Phase’s output covers a broad palette within electronic bass music. The genres tied to his name—liquid funk, jungle, drum and bass, minimal techno, IDM and UK styles—point to releases that move between atmospheric, vocal-tinged tracks and more rhythm-forward, break-driven material. His catalogue shows an interest in contrast: smoother, jazz- and vocal-inflected passages sit alongside percussive edits and tighter, club-ready arrangements. Listeners and DJs cite Shore To Shore and his label singles as evidence of that range. On the production side, public technical detail is limited in interview sources; however, Phase’s release pattern and label choices suggest a working method that handles both textural arrangement and precise beat work. Releases on labels like Metalheadz and Critical place him in contexts that favour sculpted drum programming and careful low-end control, while outings on Hospital and Dispatch point to an ability to move between liquid atmospheres and more dancefloor-focused bass design. He contributes to the scene primarily through his studio output—EPs and the Shore To Shore album—and through international touring as a performer. Direct statements about individual influences are scarce in available public material. What is verifiable is his association with a cross-section of influential labels and the 2013–2022 timeline that led to his Metalheadz album; those facts map a career that spans underground drum and bass’s liquid and darker corridors and has taken his music to audiences in Europe, North America and Japan.