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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

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SiraJazz  - v1 - 100324

from Days on End Pt.II, released on Silva Electronics
Full release available on tape with Part I and II

Wroffa

Whisper of Now

yeule - The Bug Collector (Haley Heynderickx Cover)
Conna Haraway - Mesmeric
Deniro - Painting 3
Ménage - T.O.A.
Sepehr - Shimmering Waves
Maara - Tranquil Lust Mommy
Purient - Like It
2AM/FM - Poison Dart
Skee Mask - Plastix A.W.
OK EG & Priori - Serpentine 3
VC-118A - Aurora
Introspekt - Untitled Tribute
Sons of Slough - Snares and Temptations
Sam & Jack Brickel - Resurgence
Amaliah - Slow Burn
DIIV - Everyone Out (Mount Kimbie Remix)
Zammuto - It Can Feel So Good
Purelink - Rookie (feat. Loraine James)
liana flores - rises the moon
yeule - Delete Forever (Grimes Cover)

el rio 20250409

meow :3

Dreamscape - Forevermore
Mr Jones - Marmite Interaction
Masashi Kurita - Raw Emo
Sanguine - Constant Doubt
machìna - Flowers Never Die
Sister Zo - Eeny Meeny
JZKL - Total Body Extension (w/ Gladstone Deluxe)
DJ Daria - Dance Dance (Organ Mix)
Foley - Lost In Translation
Lola Kay - Voodoo 16
Juno Reactor - Hotaka [Thomas P. Heckman Remix]
Naco - Inu
Priori - Memory Palace (Maara Remix)
Croixrouge - Voodoo
Maara & Amor Satyr - Lost & Delirious
Sully - Verité
MAR VISTA - YOU BRING LIGHT IN (GOLDEN SUNLIGHT MIX)
Nick León & Erika De Casier - Bikini

super serious 004

https://deep88.bandcamp.com/track/440-lofi-202-jam

buy on bandcamp 

440+lofi+202=JAM straight to left and right

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The music was like a pulse – alive, raw, uneven. It wasn’t a decoration for the trip; it was the road itself, the thing we took with us. The soundtrack to what was to come. We recorded these tracks as if we were creating a new memory for ourselves in advance – rhythms that would be lodged in our heads on that night when the sea hissed in the dark and the sand seemed cold and endless.

The old Walkmans with cracked buttons lay nearby, like a promise of another world. We didn’t say it out loud, but everyone knew: there was something more to the music than just songs. It was like a spell. Like a ticket to a place from which you don’t return the same.

We were still here, in this dirty room, surrounded by a stack of tapes and the smell of dust. And soon we would be a few thousand miles from where we from, but a million miles from everything we knew.

Wroffa

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