On September 7, 2025, Phidelity closed a 3.5-hour ambient set at Imagine Festival
by playing Lionel Richie's "All Night Long."
He was offered the main stage in the afternoon and found himself banned by sunrise.
This is the evidence that will vindicate his good name.


Exhibit A
The Set in Question

A recorded and verified 3.5-hour performance of beatless ambient music. 52 tracks. Zero complaints. One Lionel Richie song on a wedge monitor at sunrise. One ban.

00:08Jonas Munk - Transition
03:35Yui Onodera & Takashi Kokubo - Thousand Bells 1
07:04Virtual - Night Sky Dreaming
10:06John Tejada - The Honest Man
12:27Gidge - Grit
14:07Li Yilei - Yip, Yip, Yip
16:05Sam Goku - Sky and Sand
20:23Michel Bananila - Ambiance Subaquatique
21:35Tracey - Kindle
24:25Lyder - Drifter
26:40Tipper - Sunrise At The Gorge
31:22Frequent - Empty Body
34:01Boards of Canada - Telepath
35:26Aleksi Perala - FI3AC2512909
42:03Opal Sunn - Elastic, Phase III
45:34Barker - Fluid Mechanics
50:08Laurent Delforge - Dragonfly
54:27Lyder - Pelagial
56:14Sonmi451 - Helix
59:41Aleksi Perala - FI3AC2512901
1:02:56Pauline Anna Strom - Morning Splendor
1:05:31Cortini & Avery - Illusion Of Time (Wolgers Rework)
1:08:41Plastikman - Ask Yourself (Cliff Martinez Remix)
1:13:22Mark Pritchard - Question
1:14:45Bola - Heirairerr
1:16:48Jonas Munk - Dawn Layer
1:22:04Ocoeur - Breath
1:26:51Brian Eno - The Secret Place
1:29:20Donato Dozzy Plays Bee Mask - Vaporware 07
1:38:01Tipper - Sunrise At The Gorge
1:40:08Daniel Avery - Platform Zero
1:41:45Dollboy - Black Sun
1:45:11Kincaid - More Good Than Bad (ambient)
1:49:40Hammock - Eighty-Four Thousand Hymns
1:54:23Arovane - Rekursiv
2:00:43Aphex Twin - Cliffs
2:08:40Donnacha Costello - Farewell
2:16:01Mika Vainio - Unien Holvit
2:18:42Rob A Lowe - Alpha Crucis
2:24:20Sankt Otten - Der Himmel ist voll
2:28:20Masayoshi Fujita - Cloud of Light
2:32:48Aphex Twin - aisatsana 102
2:37:47Orbital - Belfast (ANNA Ambient Remix)
2:42:41Shulman - NN3
2:46:45Colourform - Flying Carpet
2:51:44Luigi Tozzi - Salina
2:56:20Robert Rich - Carapace Hides The Delicacy
2:59:30Rumpistol & Red Baron - Dinosaurs
3:03:29Lusine - Operation Costs (Disassembled mix)
3:07:51Æ - Yulquen (EVAC edit)
3:12:41Biocym - Wadis (Piante Vive Remix)
3:18:23Aleksi Perala - FI3AC2512904
3:30:40Lionel Richie - All Night Long
Exhibit B
The Video Evidence

Two recordings of the conclusion of Mr. Northern's performance. The first captures the actual acoustic environment. The second was shot beside the stage monitor and should be disregarded. To offer it as evidence of front-of-house volume is to mistake the wedge for the room.

B-1: The Guy Davis Video
Front of House
Exhibit B-1: The Guy Davis Video. Sound level outside the dome; music barely audible. Elliot's laughter and the revelry inside are clearly louder than the music.
B-2: The Sound Booth Video
Monitor Bleed
Captured immediately adjacent to the stage monitor. Documents exaggerated volume and monitor bleed, not audience-area sound levels.
Exhibit C
Acoustic Profile Analysis

Independent analysis conducted using the Rasenick Scale (Rs), a logarithmic unit of sound measure. Mr. Northern's performance registered between 0.15 and 0.19 Rasenicks (150-190 milliRawrs). Under all proposed standards, this falls well below the contested raging-it threshold.

The Rasenick Scale - Acoustic Profile Analysis
Source: Independent acoustic analysis, Allen, Knight & Leong LLP. Confidence: 97.5%. milliRawr resolution.