Sour&Sweet

Xi'an-born and Toronto-based producer, pianist, and DJ Ciel steps up for the next Phonica Mix with a slow building club room warm up. With a selection of deep and chugging bass, house and techno this is a mix that equally see itself lending its ears to the home listener as well as the club dancefloor frequenters. Its this diverse sound that has seen Ciel take the helms of some of the greatest clubs, festivals, radio shows and podcasts as well as releasing solid records on labels like Mister Saturday Night, Peach Discs, Coastal Haze and more her sound is truly solidified through these outputs. We are delighted to have Ciel join us ahead of some of her amazing shows this year like Kala Festival & Multi Multi(Where we will also be hosting a 20 Years Of Phonica Stage). We had a chat with Ciel about the mix and about some of the releases she has coming up.

Phonica Mix Series 107: Ciel

Recording of Avalon Emerson's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Avalon Emerson at Dekmantel Festival 2023

All Night Long in London (DJ Mix) Dec 2023

Closing set in the warehouse on Thursday night. 
Huge thanks to Aurora and all the festival staff. It meant the world to me!

Ben UFO - Sustain Release '23

DISCHI presents *Intermezzo Tre*, the third chapter in its series, curated by Jen Cardini. This compilation brings together a blend of familiar and new artists from Paris, Berlin, New York, and beyond, each contributing their unique sound. DJ and producer Jotel California delivers with his track Flower (Shower Mix), adding a fresh layer of progressive house that aligns with the eclectic spirit of the release. Intermezzo Tre drops on December 6th.

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NEW HIT: Jotel California - Flower (Shower Mix) [Dischi Autunno]

Recorded live at 宀 in Hong Kong on November 2nd 2024

After we've carefully set up a few traps, and after Vladimir's extended set for Strange Weather back in October, we can surely say mission accomplished and entanglement's achieved

We like to think that calling him uncompromising triggered the sweetest response: a deffiant cruise barely over 80bpm, only (if ever) reaching a 100 two hours in. But we're only trying to get some credit for these five hours of dignified dancefloor shatter

Because make no mistake, it's been an undoubtedly clubbing experience, with music so excessively fictional but without ever resorting to mime, as like in a dancer's body, with decisions in progress on full display (you know that exact moment, usually before a sequence or combination of movements, that one fraction of a second that happens in a dancer's body - a moment of tension, an unintended delay between the decision to execute a move and the actual execution ; it's not really rethinking or being indecisive - it's another instance in the dancer's body, inseparable from them but remembering things differently, it's an instinct, like right before you wake up, that rarely privileged moment, with only outlines of consciousness available ; a dream is still in progress, but there's potential to intervene as a director)

Live At 宀

MIX070 - Vladimir Ivkovic (貝爾格萊德）[Live for Strange Weather]

It was my first Draaimolen and no one knew it which was great. 
It was also my first encounter with Addit Audio and their sound system installed for the first time in its full glory. I can't recall being brought to tears during one soundcheck.
So there were no news, no algorithms, no expectations to be disappointed. The pit was not announced. It felt like a curious manifestation of something paranormal.
Wonderful sound system, records and sweetest weather.  
Those who found us in the small pit in the middle of the forest most likely didn't know what was going on. 
For the most part of the first 5 hours I figured out that it would be great to play for and with the sound guy, playing right and wrong records and figuring out which one sound good. Research and development mission for Addit Audio.
After 5 hours ISAbella joined for a brief back to back session. Everything can happen in the realm of paranormal. Luckily she stayed and we played together for the next 3 hours until the last song, the one for the deceased. Probably as close as it gets to transcendence. 

Thank you all. You know who you are. 

Vladimir Ivkovic

Vladimir Ivkovic at Draaimolen Festival 2024

Six hours recorded at one of my favourite clubs in the world, between the hours of 6am and 12pm. 
I absolutely loved doing this - taking the party deeper and deeper into after hours, and bringing everyone back to consciousness again in the second half. 
I LOVE NYC!

Ben UFO - Six Hours At Nowadays Nonstop 2024

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Bad Radio

Levitate For You

Tourism - Recorded live in Australia at Future Music Festival 2011

Black Flute

Shaker Obsesssion

Nicolas Jaar - Beasts Of This Earth
Yak - Don Greno
Batu - Shiratani
Ramadanman - Bass Drums
Shackleton - In Norwegen Ganz Verwegen
Logic1000 - Precision
Nativ - Shifty
Peverelist - Dance Til The Police Come
Joy Orbison - Sicko Cell
Facta - Rose Red
Pearson Sound - Footloose
Breaka - Puffer Jackets
Rex The Dog - Sicko
LSDXOXO - Hateshopping
Fango - Admire
Sansibar - Ghetto Of The Mind
Desert Sound Colony - Zoom To Your Doom
Boxwork - Pepper Stalk
Elissa Suckdog - Dudes Try (Naughty White Label Bootleg feat. King Princess)

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@ciel_dj

For valentine´s special we have invited the super talented Ciel to join us for our next mix in her own words: 
In honour of Valentine's Day, I decided to make a mix that's all about love. Love that's flirty and sweet, sometimes shy and sometimes passionate, sometimes tumultuous and sometimes ecstatic, sometimes innocent and sometimes sensuous, love that's fun, joyful, and open-hearted. Of course everyone has their own definition of love music, and what they tend to associate with love is usually dependent on the style of music they share with their past and present partners, and so is very personal. For me I tend to think nothing is more romantic than soul, r&b, and jazz. But since this is a dance mix, I selected music for the dancefloor that I consider the descendants of these styles---house, hardcore, and UKG. And just so I can be extra cheesy, every song talks about love explicitly. This is my first year since I started touring that I'm actually home for Valentine's Day, so I plan on enjoying it with my two loves—my bf & our cat. :)

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Min Ya

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