Afterhours Podcast 09 with Phil Williams AKA Artena is a Uk based music Trance music producer from Stoke-on-Trent in the midlands. From an early age Phil had a love affair with electronic music and by the age of 10 was taking piano lessons and turning his attention towards making music using the tech available. In 2003 he started to take music production more seriously and trying to emulate the industry leaders.
From then he has started to carve his own driving sound and in 2008 after hearing Sean Tyas’ monster hit ‘Lift’ he knew trance was where his heart lay. After his first release on Bonzai in 2010 under the name James Williams Phil had a string of release culminating with a signing to Armada in 2013 on the track ‘Ark’. After this Phil took some time to out, but has come back in 2021 with a renewed passion and a drive to make the music he loves with a new alias…. What does the future hold for Artena… we cant wait to find out!
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