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About Us...
The Who's, What's, When's & Why's.
Who's On Our Team
Michael Widener, II
– Owner / Manging Founder / Inventor / Designer / Lead Investor
Michael is the award-winning contactless DJ behind Phantom Records and creator of The DJ-experience® Show at DJ-experience.app, his new app released this year. Known for mixing across all genres, Michael brings a passion for sound and a deep understanding of music culture to every performance. As the founder, he envisioned Phantom Records as a home for innovation, creativity, and accessibility in music entertainment.
Mary Lee Widener
– Passive Founder / Passive Co-Investor
Mary Lee Widener, former leader of Neighborhood Housing Services of America (NHSA), brings decades of experience in nonprofit leadership and financial stewardship. As the mother of Michael Widener, (the second), she helped co-create Phantom Records as a way to offer affordable DJ entertainment to music lovers, just as her nonprofit once offered affordable housing to families across the country. Her investment has been returned with a 12% profit margin and she no longer actively invests, officially, but she loves her son and always does what any mother does for her child, she helps whenever she can. Of course, she approved this message!
Warren H. Widener, I
– Former "Top Secret" "Venture-capital" Passive Advisor / Former Passive Co-Investor
Mary Lee's late husband, who crossed the veil in 2013, would be proud of his son. Here on YouTube, Captian Warren Widener laments about his son, Michael, loosing the recording studio he (Warren) bought him (Michael) in the East Bay Hills Fire of 1991. (Also referred to as the Oakland Firestorm of 1991.) Ret. Air Force Captain, Warren H. Widener, (the first), survived by his three educated boys and his Mary Lee, is smiling down on his boys, and her, eternally. He planned all this! He kept it top secret separately with each of his boys! There have beeen a lot of competing opinions about him over the years. If you want to get past the noise, you can ask his son, Michael, at Michael's personal YouTube Channel.
Warren H. Widener was a DJ of his own but went into the Air Force, as planned, to pay for his family and abandoned DJ-ing after high school.
His son now carries his father's, little-known music legacy and his mother's well-known, respected legacy all in one! His mom and his dad met in elementary school! And were boyfriend and girlfriend since they were 15 years old with the approval of both of their families. They were married for over 54 years, and only parted ways for tax reasons because his dad knew taxes like the back of his hand. They'll always be together in Michael's heart and Michael plans to have them joined together in his church for the ages!
More About "Phantom Records"
Phantom Records, the DBA, was first registered 1989, in the East Bay Area of California. It was created as a small business after the proprietor held a few parties during his high school years that were profitable. His pention for marketing drew the attention of his parents and after graduating high school he said he wanted to go into the work as a job one day. After months of family meetings, his mother gave him the money to register Phantom Records. He was not given the choice of attending school, because his family couldn't afford to send him while his other two brothers were in school. So this was his compromise.
Learning about the music business kept him busy and eventually led to decades of research until his family, his mother, in particular, gave him the money to upgrade his business into a partnership after he proved he could run a successful startup when he broke even running an online store overseas, with only two thousand dollars of investment. He ran his business overseas for two years and moved it to the United States when he returned, and opened a partnership with his mother who became a silent investor, and, together, the two of them have been partners, as he studied the industry to choose a path forward.
Now, in 2025, after the final tier two of the Copyright Royalty Board's streaming rate, a tax-like amount, all streams are charged when they play online, is final, and related Federal and local guidelines are also final, he launched his Partnership's website, with all of the proper rates set to current levels, making his website the only website in the United States, and hence, the world, that follows every law and copyright guideline on the books.
To see what he sells, visit the Partnership's website, https://dj-experience.app, and you will see something you have never seen before – a DJ-mix website that sells and streams digital mixtapes online without allowing anything to be downloaded or purchased in any physical, or even in any data format. His site does not allow a buyer to take anything away with them, and that is the essential goal of all of the music laws in the United States, and his model is the only one that fully supports this goal, and has won him severl awards, that he lists below, because they are not published widely, and it is unlike a reader would know where to look to find them.
The Partnership sincerely hopes you enjoyed reading this short history.
Here are the awards:
(List of Awards coming soon.)
Contacting this Partnership's Creator
To contact the creator of Phantom Records, connect with him or message him, exclusively at: LinkedIn.com. (You must be a member of LinkedIn to connect to his profile. This is for security and privacy purposes, the same way you must be a member of Instagram to see Instagram profiles. We have an Instagram profile, and you can DM us there if you use Instagram. We don't reply to every message.) He does not allow contact through any other means, for business, because of past experience with scams, hacking, fake emails, phishing, and hostile cyber behavior that has always began via email to one of his inboxes. The problem is a known scourge of online life and the solution is to interact only with person or profiles from a known, trusted platform, instead of email messages.
The creator's profile at LinkedIn can be accessed by other LinkedIn members by going to Michael-Widener-II on LinkedIn.
Apparently, the U.S. Pandemic burdened law enforcement enough that they no longer are required to make reports for offenses that don't meet their specific criteria, so the Partnership no long exposes itself to bad actors who take advantage of their updated, unpublished new reporting criteria.
We regret if this causes an inconvenience.
More About Our Mixes
My DJ Mix Services "blend music together." Also known as non-stop mixes, they blend from song to song, creating an uninterrupted listening experience. This requires beat-matching skill and incorporates timed transitions between songs.
To hear what I mean, visit a Mix Page here on Phantom Records, or visit the View Mixes page at DJ-experience: Here at Phantom Records, the Store Page is another page you will find with mixes listed. After going there, click a Mixtape Album Cover, then click "Audio Preview" from Mix Album page (or Mixtape Album Page). For DJ-experience, visit the View Mixes page, here: https://dj-experience.app/view-mixes/. Enjoy your visit!
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