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Phonix

phonix logo‘phönix, phoenix?’ – No, look at the logo!

Phonix are Lori J. Ward aka Hifi Princess and Tobi Frick. They met in Graz, Austria in 2002, realized immediately that they had similar tastes and one year later they went into the studio to produce their first track Disaster o’ Mine, which was released in Croatia on the Extravaganza Cd Sampler. This track was then re-worked by Lori and two producers from Frankfurt and was re-released under the name ‘Disastermind’ on the Love Parade 2004 Compilation, Highball music and a few other electronic music compilations. Tobi and Lori also did a remix of Disatermind, which was also released on Highball Music. Both tracks were charted by DJ heavyweights and played throughout Europe.
In 2004 they began studio work together again. In summer 2006 ‘House of Jive’ became an album and ‘phonix’ was born.
Lori and Tobi both have been musicians for many years, but coming from two totally different backgrounds. Lori began in 1993 as a dj and producer following the electronic music scene, and Tobi started in 1990 as a guitarist and mc in the rock/drum´n´bass scene. The combination of the two artists has proven to be a success by bringing an unique and recognizable phonix sound – somewhere between electro and drum´n´bass.

The duo started to play live three years ago, performing before audiences all over Austria. They are both unique personalities and this also shines through with their stage performance. On New Years 2009 they will be debuting in Canada in Saskatoon as well as there are European tours planned for 2010.
Their video ‘Frustschutzmittel’ was played for two consecutive weeks on ProSieben Germany and held the 9th and 10th place for best video on Myvideo.de. Over 25.000 hits just for Frustschutzmittel show their growing popularity in Europe.
The videos for ‘Tanz Mich’ (12inch vinyl on the label Tiefparterre in 2009), ‘Where does the love go’, ‘Get what you deserve’ and ‘It wasn’t me’ also achieved a lot of attention. Coming up next will be an EP containing all German phonix songs so far and also the new video for ‘Körper aneinander reiben’.

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