Berlin-based producer and DJ Elninodiablo (aka Stephanos Pantelas) unveils his most personal and unrestrained release to date: The Downey Groove, arriving September 19 on his own label, El Niño Diablo Music. 

The result is an eight-track voyage through dub-drenched electronics, warm psychedelia, and sensual grooves, rich in texture, full of emotional nuance, and anchored by rhythm. Opening track ‘Purple Hypnotic’ sets the tone with woozy pads, aqueous textures and whispered fragments, before ‘Misteriosa Noche’ flips the vibe with a shimmering, funk-laced swerve. ‘The Soul Monad’ invokes the spiritual influence of Eno, Byrne and Sherwood with a bass-heavy, ceremonial dub, while ‘Subadrift’ offers up a spacey, synth-driven lift-off that draws on echoes of ‘80s/‘90s electronica.

The groove continues on ‘Rodeotheque’, a cheeky disco-boogie detour laced with tongue-in-cheek vocals and playful surprises. Title track ‘The Downey Groove’ follows with live percussion and unfiltered energy, a jam that feels both immediate and expansive. On ‘Rise In Dub’, thick basslines and jungle field recordings build a tripped-out nocturnal atmosphere, before final track ‘Operator Please!’ brings things full circle with sine wave warmth and slow-burning melodic closure, crafted entirely with Ableton’s Operator synth.

While no fixed concept shaped the album during its making, its emotional core revealed itself after the fact. Themes of release, rebirth, and feminine embodiment came into focus—vibrational, sensual, and rooted in the body. As Elninodiablo puts it, his creative process never starts in the mind: “It begins with an impulse in the body, a need to express. The meaning only becomes clear once the music is done.” In this case, the album became a vehicle for personal healing, especially through rhythm, movement, and bass. “It’s sacral, rootsy, and connected to freeing tension stored in my body,” he explains. The bold, unprompted artwork by Tobias Jacobsen intuitively mirrored this energy: otherworldly, vibrant, feminine.

Musically, Elninodiablo defies genre. He describes his sound as spatial, fearless, emotive and sexy, demanding yet deeply intuitive. It’s music that invites surrender, both on and off the dancefloor. “For me, music is spirit in sound, truth expressed through frequency. It moves through you. It transforms.”

Elninodiablo’s journey is as eclectic as the record itself. From Cyprus pirate radio in his youth to spinning at London’s queer underground landmarks like The End, Turnmills, and Fabric, he quickly earned a place behind the booth. His deep understanding of club culture eventually translated into a successful PR career, where he represented artists and labels such as Horse Meat Disco, Salsoul Records, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Tegan & Sara, Strut Records, and !K7.

Having laid solid foundations with releases like Shadow Dancer, Dorothea’s Rainbow, and Lunchbox Candy, this new album marks his most liberated expression yet. Studies at Berlin’s Catalyst Music (housed at the legendary Funkhaus studios) helped sharpen his production craft, while extensive travels fed into a style that draws from global influences, moving effortlessly between dubbed-out dream states, hard-hitting club gear, downtempo soul, and eastern-harmonic hybrids. The music evokes vast open spaces, from desert plains to humid jungles, more mood than genre, more energy than structure.

Outside the studio, Elninodiablo also curates Lunchbox Candy, a bi-monthly queer event at Berlin’s Kreuzwerk,, dedicated to radical sound, visual art, and embodied expression. That same fearless spirit pulses through every moment of The Downey Groove.

He describes The Downey Groove as “a womb-like slap in the face and a warm, gentle cuddle.”


Elninodiablo - The Downey Groove

As the sun came out this morning and the warmer weather is starting to lift us out of this winter lockdown fatigue, I recorded a mix - inspired by the Dreamweaving EP which drops on April 16th with another stunning video by @Adammunnings 🚀📡🌈🦋
 Slow and sensual grooves to warm your heart and get your feet tapping 

Tracklisting:

1. Untitled Remix - Elninodiablo 
2. High - Romare
3. Needs Dub - DJ Sports 
4. Karo’s At Work - BOOF
5. Code - Parsifal (Ambient Dub) - Gatto Fritto 
6. Moonflowers - Yuki Tosaya 
7. 9000 - Phillipi
8. Blue Deal - Minor Science 
9. Find A Way - BD1982
10. Soleil Synthétique - rRoxymore
11. Continuum - Audiopath 
12. Transcendental Access Point - Eris Drew 
13. Clocktower - Unknown Mobile 
14. Sit On My Interface - Roza Terezi 
15. Should Be Wit U - Earth Boys 
16. Trans Love Vibration (Eris Goes To Church) - Eris Drew & Octo Octa

Dreamweaving DJ Mix

Final remix comes from Elninodiablo himself, who gives way to the fevered appeal of percussive drums, Venusian disco and powerhouse bass from hell. The result is a no-nonsense DJ asset, boiling up to a hectic momentum of restless robotic flute lines and filtered keyboard volutes painting the background all kinds of vivid summery colours. One to get the tiles of the roof flying off sharp and clean.

Dorothea's Rainbow (The Remixes)

Dorothea's Rainbow (Elninodiablo Riding The Rainbow Remix)

Fellow raver, dreamer, lover, seeker -  if you haven’t already stopped by AEDEN for one of our parties, Lunchbox Candy (LBC)  is your next stop in Berlin’s network of hedonistic alcoves. Fruit of a lockdown brainstorm between music producer / floor agitator Elninodiablo and visual whiz / dancer and DJ Adam Munnings, Lunchbox Candy is a tentacular hub and space where the finest of Berlin’s creative community gathers to give full vent to its all-embracing fantasies. 

A safe, queer sex-positive space, LBC was designed as a gesture of gratitude towards the people who have made our past, present and future creative ventures possible, and aims at weaving our beloved souls together in one weightless, prejudice-free carnival of sorts where your inner drag and exuberant self can fully and unstintingly assert themselves in the friendliest and most intimate environment. Our next party on Sunday Nov 28th features an array of artists who share the very same DNA and love for lively, genre-unbound partying.

With a carefully staged atmosphere, music policy and set design,  the bi-monthly party operates as a catalyser for all the energies and talents gravitating around our nightlife universe, spanning all fields from music to film, via conceptual narrative, fashion, photography, styling, movement, art, dance, sexuality, spirituality, radical self-expression, love and joy and it' all about creating that essential connection.

@lunchboxcandy

Lunchbox Candy Sampler

First up we have British producers Aaron Horn and Jamie Rodigan aka Crate Classics tweaking “Lunchbox Candy” into a proper massive buffet of fast-spinning DnB maximalism. Blowing the hot- tempered winds of classic 90s UK jungle in all possible directions and at the fiercest rate, Crate Classics gets the big guns talking without further ado.

Lunchbox Candy/Let's Get Sleazy (The Remixes)

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Elninodiablo 'Lunchbox Candy' (Crate Classics Hard Candy Remix)

Elninodiablo’s The Vata Deranged Experience remix adds his own playfully puzzle-y spin to the table with a funky tempo-shifting whirlwind of cut and re-sequenced samples bouncing in a vividly colourful maelstrom.

Elninodiablo 'Lunchbox Candy' (The Vata Deranged Experience)

Kicking off 2023 in the best shape and spirits, Elninodiablo turns up with his latest five-track bomb, 'The House of JuJu' EP. 

As ever, drawn towards the further spaced-out, low-slung side of the house spectrum - think Andrew Weatherall's adrenaline fuelled psychedelia laced with hints of sedated EBM and mutant newbeat triangulations, Elninodiablo has us surfing a tidal wave of 303-powered disco, tendinous bass manoeuvres and off-kilter patterns spanning a wide range of influences, from electro to Italo, afro-funk through acid, pop and electro. 

Squeezing the most electrifying juice out of the ARP Odyssey and the MS20, Elninodiablo lets the hedonistic vibrations loose on the slo-burning title-track, 'House of JuJu' - a polychromatic sense- awakener flush with alien squelch, laser blasts and PI funk-styled riffs, geared up with the right amount of floor-ready tactility and languid abandon to have ravers wading in their own sweat. Steamy ear-otica wrapped into one helluva fine, curvy envelope, pulpous and playful as it gets. 

Wonky to the bone, 'Victoria's Secret' pulls out an incendiary mix of Egyptian- motif'd IDM, off-axis space disco hoodoo and no-nonsense Afro-futurism to hypnotic effect, merging the entrancing power of tribalesque rituals with the magnetic flare of arps-loaded Italo done right. 

Pacing up the trancey electro highway at full throttle, 'E.S.P' leaves no mystery uncovered as to its goal: setting the dance floor ablaze thanks to its imparable combo of fast- lane-ready rhythmic engineering, bouncy drumwork and mischievous vox stabs bursting through with disruptive fun. 

A slice of utterly mesmerising daydream in sound, 'Gompa' has us lifting off to stratospheric heights in a caress, watching the dancing crowd move in slow motion from high up above. There, Elninodiablo's silken touch displays in all its dazzling iridescence, immersive to the fullest as it retains much of its exquisitely titillating dynamism and unchaste sensuality, wrapping up yet another all around captivating batch of Elninodiablo's adventures across the electronic hyperspace's hidden nooks and ridge lines.

E.S.P

A two hour excerpt from Elninodiablo's DJ set at Lunchbox Candy - The Ket Gala, Saturday July 22nd, 2023 
Play it loud !!!

Flyer: 
@markgilleran
@adammunnings

Lunchbox Candy | The Ket Gala | Elninodiablo

Noir Nightmarket | DJ Set | Holzmarkt 23.02.24

Music Producer, DJ and event organiser, Elninodiablo is the co-founder and resident of Berlin queer community, Lunchbox Candy. DJing for 25 years +, his sound encompasses a plethora of life experiences into a sound that is genre-boundless steering away from stereotypes and industry standards, always shape-shifting and evolving, bringing a sense of fun and playfulness as well as facilitating connection and intimacy on the dance-floor.  

This DJ Mix is featuring Queen Sudhara on percussion and Nancy Nutter on MCing / vocals and it was recorded live on the Candy Flip floor at Lunchbox Candy @ ÆDEN, on Sunday May 26th, during the launch party for the 'Infinitely Venus EP' which is available to pre-order from NEIN Records here: 
https://neinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/infinitley-venus

Photo: @adammunnings

Live DJ Mix Lunchbox Candy May 25th, w/t Queen Sudhara and Nancy Nutter

Elninodiablo's DJ Set from Lunchbox Candy the Ket Gala 2024 Pt 1 

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OUR HOUSE, OUR RULES, OUR PLEASURE - It’s The Ket Gala 2024 !!! 

THE only Pride event worth douching for

11 DJs 
6 live acts 
8 hosts
20 hours of anarchy!  

Looking for CSD alternatives? Sex, drugs and questionable cult behaviour? LOVE LOVE LOVE?   We’ve been digging our own lane since 2021 and proud to present The Ket Gala 2024! An offspring of our deranged imagination and a gathering of sorts, bringing together the creative, wild and free queerdos Berlin and beyond has to offer. But don’t be fooled… this shit’s got soul too ;) 

Proceedings begin at 6pm for an extra-long sesh so come early to get the discount, avoid the crowds and catch our sizzling live performances in The Candy Flip from 8pm. We are plugging in our amps and cranking up the volume!   

Wanna kiss a drag kween? It’s Bleach without a leash with Punx ‘N’ Kweenz, Thor Rixon, Dornika, Elodie Gervaise, Shaw Cain and Bully Fae Collins. They will entertain you, challenge you, excite you, f**k with you, fry your little brains and leave you gagging for more…  

Over inside The Box, we kick things off at 9pm with surprise interactive performances, intention settings, LOVEROOM shenanigans and a turbo-charged DJ line up to get you wet for your pleasure, with pleasure.   

Our residents – Elninodiablo, Adam Munnings, Queen Sudhara and DJ Petite will keep your feet off the ground alongside our guests Ketia, Spacer Woman and IDLIBRA.   

Over back in The Candy Flip – the legend Daniel Wang is B2Bing with Tigerdisco, followed by Tronik Youth and Rafush.  

As always our fierce hosts and performers will be injecting further doses of pleasure and high octane excitement throughout the night – Alvin Collantes, Nancy Nutter, Lawunda, Gutter Gucci, Coco Klein, Scotty The Blue Bunny, Valerian Steel and Eros in Furs.  

With the waiting lines being so crazy this year we are introducing 2 entrances, more door staff and security and a second cloak room to be sure the only huge lines you are dealing with are with friends in the bathrooms.   

Your gender bending, freedom lending, love bursting excuse to let loose 

  Let’s make love   

Your Lunchbox Candy fam! xxx

Lunchbox Candy | Elninodiablo | The Ket Gala | 27th July 2024 | Pt 1

Elninodiablo's DJ Set from Lunchbox Candy - the Ket Gala 2024 Pt 2

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OUR HOUSE, OUR RULES, OUR PLEASURE - It’s The Ket Gala 2024 !!!

THE only Pride event worth douching for

11 DJs 
6 live acts 
8 hosts
20 hours of anarchy!

Looking for CSD alternatives? Sex, drugs and questionable cult behaviour? LOVE LOVE LOVE? We’ve been digging our own lane since 2021 and proud to present The Ket Gala 2024! An offspring of our deranged imagination and a gathering of sorts, bringing together the creative, wild and free queerdos Berlin and beyond has to offer. But don’t be fooled… this shit’s got soul too ;)

Proceedings begin at 6pm for an extra-long sesh so come early to get the discount, avoid the crowds and catch our sizzling live performances in The Candy Flip from 8pm. We are plugging in our amps and cranking up the volume!

Wanna kiss a drag kween? It’s Bleach without a leash with Punx ‘N’ Kweenz, Thor Rixon, Dornika, Elodie Gervaise, Shaw Cain and Bully Fae Collins. They will entertain you, challenge you, excite you, f**k with you, fry your little brains and leave you gagging for more…

Over inside The Box, we kick things off at 9pm with surprise interactive performances, intention settings, LOVEROOM shenanigans and a turbo-charged DJ line up to get you wet for your pleasure, with pleasure.

Our residents – Elninodiablo, Adam Munnings, Queen Sudhara and DJ Petite will keep your feet off the ground alongside our guests Ketia, Spacer Woman and IDLIBRA.

Over back in The Candy Flip – the legend Daniel Wang is B2Bing with Tigerdisco, followed by Tronik Youth and Rafush.

As always our fierce hosts and performers will be injecting further doses of pleasure and high octane excitement throughout the night – Alvin Collantes, Nancy Nutter, Lawunda, Gutter Gucci, Coco Klein, Scotty The Blue Bunny, Valerian Steel and Eros in Furs.

With the waiting lines being so crazy this year we are introducing 2 entrances, more door staff and security and a second cloak room to be sure the only huge lines you are dealing with are with friends in the bathrooms.

Your gender bending, freedom lending, love bursting excuse to let loose

Let’s make love

Your Lunchbox Candy fam! xxx

Lunchbox Candy | Elninodiablo | The Ket Gala | 27th July 2024 | Pt 2

Elninodiablo & Queen Sudhara (live) | Lunchbox Candy | The September Issues

Another mix for your pleasure with pleasure... title inspired by Sedef Adasi's eponymous track and best listened to on a clear starry summer night out in the fields...or opposite luminous orange sunsets by the beach...taking in ambient, trip hop, dub, afro, disco, indie, EBM, electro and classic house...this one was conceived after finished DJing at a festival this summer and having a moment alone in my tent enjoying the beautiful nature and listening to some of these tracks

Tracklisting: 

1. Winter Sun - Gaussian Curve 
2. Grace - The Durutti Column
3. Wham Dub - Geller & Kaya 
4. Pillow Talk - trickpony
5. Mallets - Wordcolour 
6. Burning Bush - Jezebell 
7. Time (You and I) (Put a Smile on DJ's Face Mix) - Khruangbin & Felix Dickinson 
8. Only You (Paris Acid City Rework) - Steve Monite 
9. Hi No Tori - Golden Bug & The Liminanas 
10. Heroine Dub - Solitary Dancer 
11. Komm Ins Loch (Colossio Remix) - Theus Mago & Local Suicide 
12. Sponsored Ritual - trickpony 
13. Intense Affectionate (Paramida Remix) - Massimiliano Pagliara 
14. Feel My Love (love vibes) - Yukihiro Fukutomi 
15. Tout Est Bleu (Francois K remix) - Ame Strong 
16. Better Reality - Phyzikal Flex 
17. Mermaids On Acid - Sedef Adasi 
18. A Deal With God (Noise of Art Edit) - Random House Project

Mermaids On Acid

One of my favourite endeavours is to discover and curate fresh and exciting music that moves me on multi-dimensional levels. Sounds that transport me on other realms and elevated states of being. 

With this mix I really wanted to present some true musical gems I collected in the past year but haven't had an opportunity to play out in a club yet. 

The bpm and styles vary across the board starting with ambient and emotive textures moving into sultry and ethereal vocals, drum n bass, breakbeat, aquatic rolling rhythms with blissed-out flourishes and r n' b tinged deliciousness, evolving into polyrhythmic dembow, thunderous percussion, dub, euphoric disco, latin and playful minimal, finishing off with an off-kilter cult classic. 

It's a trip! One you can lose yourself in for almost 2 hours at a chill, during sex, at a party, walking through the city or nature while exploring spacial sound, multi dimensional soundscapes, vision quests, emotions and body movement excursions, with or without enhancements! 

A huge thank you to the artists who created this incredible music! 

Please support via Bandcamp - all of these tracks can be found there.

Tracklisting:

1. Nostalgia - Salamanda
2. When you don't (Salamanda Remix) - Ammonite 
3. Fairy Liquor - Yushh & Facta 
4. Existence - Jailing 
5. Water Walk - Ex-Terrestrial 
6. Outer Reach - Hugo Massien
7. Blame - Delicious 
8. Drumz (Leod Edit) - K-Lone 
9. Albacete Knife - Al Wootton 
10. Sing It To Happen - Oceanic 
11. My Neck, My Back, My Panic Attack - GoodMostlyBad
12. Miss Le Gout - Knopha
13. Pleasure Principle (SR Offworld mix) - Special Request 
14. Love Divide (Bubble Love Remix) - Ross From Friends 
15. Fuzbidun - Sys & Yushh
16. Crystal - Cour T. 
17. Tilda's Goat Stare (Priori Remix) - Ciel & CCL
18. Telomere - Delay Grounds x Yushh
19. Peach - salute & Sammy Virji
20. Zander High - Marius
21. Movimiento - Liu Mata & Amor Satyr
22. Satisfy - Dan Coco
23. Dongal Life - DJ Split 
24. Wisdom Track - MOY 
25. I'm Not Here (CW Re-Rub) - Kate Bush 


Mixed with LOVE, Elninodiablo

Artwork: Tobias Jacobsen

Zandar High

Elninodiablo takes Elodie Gervaise's moody sensual electro and turns into a 9 minute dark new wave disco odyssey with a pulsating bassline, dramatic strings and sensual vocals



Elodie Gervaise - 'IMYG' (Elninodiablo Femme Fatale Remix)

Marina Satti is undoubtedly one of the most impressive talents to come out of Greece - ever! An incredibly talented musician, songwriter, producer, performer and vocalist - her latest album P.O.P reached the Global Top Ten Album Charts last summer and her unique fusion of contemporary with traditional is making her music accessible to wider audiences. 

A little background on this remix…  

I was approached a few years ago by a media company in Athens - who also owned a record label - to help them promote a brand new artist they had just signed. Her self-made, one-shot phone camera video had already amassed a few hundred thousand views and they wanted to push her more. 

I had already paused my PR activities and was focusing more on music production so I suggested I remix the track instead and help them with a promo strategy with someone else implementing. 

By the time I finished my remix the music video for ‘Mantissa’ had 3 million + views and growing exponentially (now it’s at almost 60m)….larger conglomerates were coming into the game as this was clearly a massive talent

Long story short - the remix never saw the light of day as a new record company took over - I posted it only on Soundcloud and it gathered 30K plays with people asking when it’s coming out, where to buy etc etc

Finally a few weeks ago I sat down and mixed it again and remastered it so finally I’m putting up on Bandcamp and reposting the new master here on Soundcloud 



Marina Satti 'Mantissa' (Elninodiablo's Witchcraft Remix)

Here's my DJ set from Lunchbox Candy Evolution @ Kreuzwerk, Berlin on March 22nd, 2025 

Lunchbox Candy | Evolution | Elninodiablo | 22.3.2025

The closing set at Lunchbox Candy - Cosmic edition, May 24th 2025 

Elninodiablo w/t Queen Sudhara (live percussion) | Lunchbox Candy | Cosmic 24.5.2025

02 Misteriosa Noche

04 Subadrift

03 The Soul Monad

05 Rodeotheque

08 Operator Please!

07 Rise In Dub

06 Downey Groove

01 Purple Hypnotic

Elninodiablo in his drag alias 'Stephania Pantiesless' with the lovingly formidable Queen Sudhara on live percussion, tearing up the Candy Flip floor for Lunchbox Candy's 4 Year Anniversary. 

Lunchbox Candy | CHOOSE NOW | Nov 8th 2025 | Elninodiablo w/t Queen Sudhara (live)

One of the most magical moments at Burning Man is the sunrise and sunset. This set was from the SoulShakers camp at 2:45 and A on Sunday August 27th.

Burning Man 2017 - Soulshakers Sunset Set, 8/27

Until we can dance again this is a new DJ mix to celebrate the launch of my EP 'ShadowPlay' released 15.1.2021 across all platforms 
Turn up the volume, close your eyes and imagine you are on your favourite dancefloor...

https://ffm.to/endm0001

Watch out for the sensual music video for 'Shadow Dancer' directed by Adam Munnings premiered on Kaltblut on 13.1.2021

https://www.instagram.com/kaltblut_magazine/

www.elninodiablo.com 
www.adammunnings.com

Elninodiablo Shadow Dancer DJ Mix Jan 2021

Even though clubs have had to shut their doors for an indefinite period of time, the fire of dance music still burns wide and deep at Elninodiablo‘s ever funky lair as demonstrated by the ultra-sexy music video for ’Shadow Dancer’ (directed by Adam Munnings) bringing the immediacy and vibrancy of Berlin’s much missed nightlife onto your screens. You can now watch the video here: https://youtu.be/gl0JBFQe3rw

Newest in the release series is the smouldering hot centre-piece from the ’ShadowPlay EP‘, ’Shadow Dancer’, complemented by a choice pair of remixes courtesy of DFA mainstay Perel and former Faithless member, Queen Sudhara.

Presented in a slightly tightened, floor-optimised version tailored to enslave ravers through hypnotic loops and twists, the lead cut, Club Edit blazes a path of utter rhythmic devotion throughout, sure to leave wisps of vapour in its trail.

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