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Artist:
Renegade Soundwave

Title:
The Phantom (Rewired)

Label:
Jack Said What

Cat#:
JSW057B

Release Date:
24th September 2026

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
The Phantom
(Carl Cox Rewire)

02.
The Phantom
(Carl Cox Rewire – Extended)

Press Info:
Legendary Brit DJ Carl Cox has long cited ‘The Phantom’ by Renegade Soundwave as one of his all-time favourite tracks. He first heard it at a rave in Biggin Hill, played by DJ Frankie Valentine, and immediately had to seek it out. “This record blew my mind,” Carl recalls. “It was like indie meets rock techno punk. What I love about it is that when those guys made that record, they didn’t give a f*ck. Even today, there’s nothing that sounds like it at all.”

Carl has played the original — first released in 1989 — in Ibiza numerous times over the years, and when he heard about the ‘Renegade Soundwave Rewired’ project he was one of the first to jump onboard. Keeping his mix exclusively to himself until this month, Carl has been rinsing his rework at festivals and during his residency at [UNVRS] in Ibiza across the summer to huge uproar.

Now the time has come for Carl’s rewiring of ‘The Phantom’ to be unleashed into the world.

The word legend is banded about too much in electronic music, but foundational UK DJ Carl Cox is, undisputedly, a bona fide legend. After more than four decades in music he’s still absolutely at the top of his game and remains one of the biggest DJs in the world.

Carl’s rewiring of ‘The Phantom’ kicks off with a familiar breakbeat pattern a bit faster than the original, before the surging b-line and hauntological, dubbed-out dancehall toasting refrain enter the fray. The original ‘The Phantom’ sampled The Clash’s ‘White Riot’ and was cleared by the band at the time. In this Carl Cox update, Clash fan Barry Ashworth delivers the chant in the inimitable style he brings to his long-serving Dub Pistols band every week. Making judicious use of the elements, Carl’s update powers to climax in the second half — it’s a classic made into a future classic.

The original release of ‘The Phantom’ was sampled by The Prodigy on early rave tune ‘Everybody In The Place’, and in a timely moment of serendipity Carl has been playing vinyl sets with The Prodigy of late on their Warriors Dance tour. The vinyl cut of Carl’s rewiring of ‘The Phantom’ drops in a couple of weeks on Jack Said What.

Snippets:

Full Track Streaming:
“The Phantom (Carl Cox Rewire – Extended)”

Special:
“The Renegade Cocaine Extravaganza Mix”

Recommendations:
Renegade Soundwave’s “Thunder (Rewired)” on Jack Said What
Renegade Soundwave’s “Ozone Breakdown (Rewired)” on Jack Said What
Renegade Soundwave’s “RSW 1987-1995” on Mute
Renegade Soundwave’s “Soundclash” on Mute
Renegade Soundwave’s “Howyoudoin?” on Mute
Renegade Soundwave’s “The Next Chapter Of Dub” on Mute
Renegade Soundwave’s “In Dub” on Mute
Depeche Mode’s “Songs Of … | The 12″ Singles” w/ RSW remix on Mute

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