Phil Perez

It's 2003, and an 18-year-old kid from a small town makes some big-city friends. One night, the kid gets a call. He's given an address. He's given a time. And he's told to just show up. "You'll know the place when you hear it." That's how Phil Perez, a future DJ, and producer, found the underground. And even now, all these years later, he can still see that disused warehouse in the darkness. He can still hear the old brick walls and those back-alley streets shaking. He can still feel the steady, seductive thud of 130 BPMs at 100 decibels in his chest. Within months of that first all-nighter, Perez started playing opening sets at these very same clandestine club nights that had changed his life. He enrolled in an institution of