Phil Kieran began his DJ career in 1995 aged 19, playing rock, indie, pop-chart music in local, Belfast nightclub the Limelight.
His tracks appear on over 55 other artists albums and compilations by acts including, Patrice Baumel, Maya Jane Coles, Carl Cox,Terence Fixmer, David Holmes Richie Hawtin, DJ Hell, Robert Hood, Judge Jules, Chris Leibing, Ivan Smagghe, Tiga, James Zabiela as well as on numerous compilation albums by dance music labels, brands and nightclubs including Clubbed, DJ Mag, Global Underground and Ministry of Sound.
He has subsequently released solo albums 'Blinded by the Sun' on Hot Creations in 2016 and 'Life Cycling' on Mano Le Tough's label Maeve in 2019.
It's been described as 'a woozy look back into childhood, a blissed out album of reflective songcraft, tinged with time-lapse psychedelia and shot through with hazy fairground ephemera... reimagined for the dancefloor, filtered through Phil's unerring techno sensibility'.
In 2011, he created a concept album with Speedy J (aka Jochem Paap) called Workshops Vol.1 which explores the recording techniques used in the middle of the 20th century and dating right back to the mid 1950s.
The producer has an extensive remixing career; reworks include Depeche Mode's track 'Sweetest Perfection', Agoria's 'L'Onzieme Marche', Nitzer Ebb's 'Murderous', Groove Armada's Tripwire Andrew Weatherall/Asphodells' 'Late flowering lust'.
As part of the European Orchestra Laboratory (EOLab II) project Phil, alongside viola player Jonathon Simmance facilitated up and coming Northern Irish musicians at Celtronic studios to create original music.
In 2018 Kieran created the music for the theatrical stage play 'East Belfast Boy' by Prime Cut productions[10] which was later adapted into a film featuring a revised score by the artist.
In 2019 Phil created his first original score for film, for a BBC documentary about fellow Northern Irish artist Oliver Jeffers.
Phil scored his first radio documentary in 2021, 'The Northern Bank Job: Unexpected Visitors', produced by Conor Garrett and written and narrated by author Glenn Patterson.
Phil Kieran's music has been synchronised to various film, TV, computer games and other online media, notably tracks 'I cant help myself', 'Paint and Chemicals department', 'Two Minds' feature on BAFTA winning TV series Killing Eve; 'We have Control' (Alloy Mental) is on the Sony PlayStation 2007 game Gran Turismo 5 Prologue; 'Snakes Crawl' featured on Gucci's Spring/Summer 2015 shows and advertising campaign.