PhDJ is a disc jockey, business guy, music producer, and an all round party dude. His real name is Martin Novosel and not only is he founder and owner of label, events and tastemaker company Boundary Sounds (www.boundarysounds.com) but he is also one of Australia’s highest profile indie party DJs, and a pioneer for a generation of left-of-centre party-goers and music lovers.

After living in London for a few years, overstaying his visa and getting fired from a string of day jobs for DJing and partying too much, PhDJ moved back to Sydney to avoid extradition. A few mishap attempts at regular jobs later he established Boundary Sounds, a company responsible for releasing records by Philadelphia Grand Jury and Sparkadia, and establishing Sydney’s longest running indie club, as well as Australia’s most recognizable indie club brand ‘Purple Sneakers’, and also a slew of other records, clubs and events.

In music business terms press have labelled PhDJ as the spiritual younger brother of dudes like Steve Aoki, Erol Alkan and Busy P.

As a DJ PhDJ’s mashed up versatility behind the decks is huge. He is just as comfortable touring internationally, playing big-room clubs and playing at festivals to thousands as he is playing in the front room of a mate’s house party. And like any good house party DJ he’ll thrash whatever genre happens to get sucked onto the decks, doesn’t matter if it’s hip hop, rock, booty, punk, funk, indie, disco, soul or whatever it takes.

As one of Australia’s highest profile indie party DJs he’s toured the UK, US, Japan and Australia many times. Highlights include supporting Santigold, La Roux, Bloc Party, Vampire Weekend, The Presets, DJ AM, Grizzly Bear, Lily Allen, The Rapture, Chk Chk Chk, The Kills, Ratatat, The Metric, Alan Braxe, Pase Rock, VHS or Beta, Le Tigre, Good Charlotte, Ian Brown, Chicks on Speed, Midnight Juggernauts, Princess Superstar etc etc… And playing the main room of the world’s biggest indie club – London’s Club NME (twice). In the past few years PhDJ has also played just about every big Australian festival including Splendour in Grass, Parklife (national tour), Good Vibrations, Falls Festival, Field Day, Southbound and Big Day Out.

Some points to note…
• PhDJ was featured in a list of Australia’s Top 30 most influential people under the age of 30.

• Converse recently chose to showcase PhDJ in their 100 years of Converse ‘Icons’ campaign alongside the likes of M.I.A., Sid Vicious, Karen O, Billy Joe Armstrong and others.

• He was invited to throw the late DJ AM’s first and only public party in Australia.

• PhDJ was the first to show MTV’s DJ Ruby Rose the ropes of DJing. She subsequently used a remix of his in her first officially released mix compilation.

• Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys once declared PhDJ one of the best DJs he’s ever seen.

• PhDJ inspired a track by hip hop punk band Bluejuice called ‘Broken Leg’ after he broke lead singer’s in a dance off. The footage is out there somewhere on Youtube.

• The now infamous ‘PhDJ’s 2008 Indie Party Mixtape’ has been downloaded over 10,000 times.

Never one to remain idle, with his business securely established, the last 12 months has seen PhDJ have time to get stuck into remixing, music production work (under his own name and the name Dept.) and even some film making.

To listen to PhDJ mixes click on the links below.
Press: Claire Collins – claire@bossymusic.com
Bookings: Jamal Ziane – jamal@thebedlamgroup.com
Web: www.twitter.com/welovephdj & www.myspace.com/welovephdj