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CamelPhat

British DJ and production duo, formed in 2008

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ21008079
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CamelPhat are an English DJ and production duo, consisting of Dave Whelan and Mike Di Scala, formed in Liverpool in 2006.

Initially they released music under various names but found success with their 2017 single "Cola", which peaked at No. 3 on the UK Dance Chart, and at No. 18 on the UK Singles Chart.

They have released two studio albums and many singles and EPs.

Biography

Dave Whelan and Mike Di Scala met each other in a Liverpool record shop 3 Beat Records and both were disc jockeys in the city. Di Scala had previously released music as a member of Rezonance Q (with Lee Butler and Les Calvert), Ultrabeat (with Ian Redman and Chris Henry) and as a solo happy hardcore artist using the name Re-Con. Dave Whelan hosted his own Jubilee club night since 2004 and the two were resident DJs at Society nightclub.

They began producing music together as members of The Chosen Few, along with Les Calvert. The trio also managed the Adhesive record label as a subsidiary of All Around the World.

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This entry incorporates text from CamelPhat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.