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Juanita's Mix 100 with Ciel @ciel_dj

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. a music maker with too much sincerity and a passion for sampling, film, and leftist politics

Q. What drew you to the music scene in the beginning and where do you hope to see it in the future?
A. Looking back at my life, I think everything from my birth led me on this path towards music. It was my first love. But as an only child, my experience with music growing up was always very solitary. I yearned to be part of a community radio station with Iikeminded music nerds, and it was working for a radio station eventually during my undergraduate that brought me toward DJing and rave culture. Back then I never thought I could do this full time, but once I got the chance to make a living doing this, I realized the scene was far from perfect, in fact it's very exploitative. I hope in the future we can find a way to fairly compensate music makers for the incredible gift of music they bestow upon the world, without becoming beholden to corrupt corporate & military interests. Artists can be hyper individualistic and self-interested, and I hope we can get better at looking out for each other instead of just our own paycheques.

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. I wanted to present a different side of myself to international audiences on such a wonderful mix platform. Perhaps people outside of my home city of Toronto are less familiar with my downtempo sets, but it's been a significant part of my wheelhouse for years, and have gained even wider affection from me since I started doing a downtempo party in Toronto last year. Like I always say, 80-100bpm is the most natural tempo for extended human body movements. I also liked the idea of doing a mix that doesn't build in a predictable way, instead it waxes and wanes like the natural rhythm of life. So many of my favourite mixes build and release tension in a way that's very satisfying to listen to, the sounds intensify to a frenzy before disintegrating into nothingness. I wanted to play with that rise and fall and mix downtempo and dub with double time d&b in a non-linear way that is evocative of our most precious memories and tells stories we've only seen in dreams. Downtempo and dub also seemed like the perfect genres to play in the 100th mix for Juanita's, and in the lead up to my fav April holiday. :) I hope the listeners enjoy it.

Juanita's Mix 100: Ciel

Elena Colombi live from The Inn @ Dripping 2024

@elenacolombi

Elena Colombi at Dripping 2024

Recording from martinkus' (Tomas) legendary set at the soundsystem's first appearance in the wild in the form of a mono stack.

May 1st, 2024 @ Grenzallee, Berlin.

Unforgettable day, thank you to everyone who came out & supported.

39:42 is when the police came to tell us to turn the bass down.

martinkus - mayday '24

Protodub B2B Fogou at Outra Cena, This Side, 14/12/24

DJ Set - recorded live at Nowadays, NYC - 16th Feb 2025

(Apologies for volume dips - we had slight sound issues)

Om Unit - DJ Set @ Nowadays (NYC) - 16.02.25

Dead Tongues From Outter Space - Lyrids: 6th April '25

Please Leave a Message After the Tone airs every 4 weeks at @90mil-Radio, from Berlin and its aim is to share feelings, ideas, insights and, naturally, the music that scores my existence in this body, this world, this Universe...

This third episode aired on Mar 8, 2025. It is carnival-in-Rio infused homage to women in general, and to my dear Power Rangels in particular. 

Hope you enjoy!


Please Leave a Messsage After the Tone - 8 Mar 2025

Please Leave a Message After the Tone airs every 4 weeks at @90mil-Radio, from Berlin and its aim is to share feelings, ideas, insights and, naturally, the music that scores my existence in this body, this world, this Universe...

This episode aired on May 3, 2025. It was recorded in the aftermath of a Love Celebration envisioned by Nina and Jojo, together with Karina, Alex, Yulu, Tamara, Opher and some other fantastic humans, and was greatly inspired by this gathering –– thanks for the invitation and the inspiration, friends. It's a vinyl-only session, with its shacky transitions, but error is part of the game, essential to improvement, and should also have its place in the cloud. 

Hope you enjoy!

Please Leave a Message After the Tone - 3 MAy 2025

from cloud to cloud
stay moist stay fluffy

peter pain @ Je m'Apelle Cloud - may 2025

After starting the mini Dekmantel Selectors podcast series two years ago, it feels like a tradition to bring it back to life. In the next couple of months, we will release 6 podcasts by some of the exciting artists from the line-up. This year’s podcasts challenges the artists to work around a theme or idea they picked theirselves. After Lena Willikens's turn, we've asked Brilliant Corners's very own Donna Leake for the last Selectors podcast of the year.

Donna Leake, the music programmer at Brilliant Corners (a cosy bar and music venue in East London), is the kind of DJ who casts a wide net, spreading her sets across many musical disciplines all in the name of playing music that just feels right in the moment. This will be Leake's first time touching down at our humble festival, and we can't wait to see just where the adventurous selector will end up taking us.

Before we invite Donna over for her debut at Dekmantel Selectors this week, we've asked her for a special mix. Donna on her own podcast: "This is a mix made for a special exchange of musical inspiration from one person to another."

Please Leave a Messsage After the Tone - 8 Mar 2025

Mamma Tehrani