Thomas Refvik came up through the hip-hop scene in Norway before the pull of electronic music took hold in the early 2000s. What started on dancefloors led to the decks, and in 2012 he joined Det Gode Selskab, the Oslo-based collective and label where he now serves as operating manager and resident. Fourteen years later he's still there, quietly running the machine behind the scenes while DJing across Europe.

His sets sit somewhere between minimal, house and techno, guided by an ear for musicality and emotion over formula. The influence of hip-hop, jazz and classical never really left. It shows in how he selects, always reaching for the strange and the overlooked, tracks that don't quite fit any obvious category but make perfect sense on the right floor at the right time.

He plays vinyl by preference, not principle. His collection is shaped by years of travelling and crate-digging across Europe, from Amsterdam and Paris to Berlin, Milan and Barcelona, always searching for the record that sounds just a little bit different. Vinyl grounds the process. It slows things down, demands attention, and that presence carries through into how he plays.

There's a natural adaptability to how he plays rather than imposing a setlist. Whether it's a five-hour set at an afterparty or a festival stage, the music shifts to meet the room. The approach changes, the sensibility and his musical ID doesn't.

Resident at Jaeger, Oslo. Credits include Sunny Side Festival, Horizon Festival, Why?Not Zanzibar, The Villa, and UNUM.