Photonz is a DJ and producer that in recent years became a driving force for Lisbon's much talked about the underground scene. For little over a decade now, he's been crafting his own deeply personal style of eerie yet potent machine funk for cult imprints such as Créme Organization, 20:20 Vision, Don't Be Afraid, Skylax, Unknown To The Unknown or Príncipe. 

 

 

As a DJ, Photonz grew a reputation for deep crates and intensely euphoric sets and in 2017, together with Violet (co-founder at his Radio Quantica) and Lisbon's own Rabbit Hole collective, he started the now infamous Mina parties - a monthly, sex-positive, queer and intersectional-feminist techno party aimed at using the dissociative potential of intense raving to create a temporary space of suspension away from patriarchal expectations.

 

 This year has seen him play explosive sets at established festivals like Sónar Barcelona, Atonal, Field Manoeuvres, and Magnetic Fields.

 

 

Angel Heart, The EP he released on Naive this past June, RA says it as "A well-executed blend of house, techno and drum & bass." He also just released an EP with the elusive label Dark Entries in this past October.