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This paper presents an informed source separation technique of monophonic mixtures. Although the vast majority of the separation methods are based on the time-frequency energy of each source, we introduce a new approach using solely phase information to perform the separation. The sources are iteratively reconstructed using an adaptation of the Multiple Input Spectrogram Inversion (MISI) algorithm from Gunawan and Sen. The proposed method is then tested against conventional MISI and Wiener filtering on monophonic signals and oracle conditions. Results show that at the cost of a larger computation time, our method outperforms both MISI and Wiener filtering in oracle conditions with much higher objective quality even with phase quantization.