@ciel_dj

Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 

Hello, I'm a producer and DJ going by the name of Ciel. My real name is Cindy, my pronouns are she/her, and I'm based in Toronto, Canada.

How do you deal with being nervous before a gig? 

Try not think about it :) It doesn't always work, but i find it happens from time to time if I'm really exhausted from not sleeping on tour and my brain has naturally shut off. If I can't stop thinking about it, I will try to select the first track from my vinyl bag and have a vague sense of what Rekordbox playlists I plan to play from. I ad-hoc all my sets because I love picking tracks in response to the audience's energy, but sometimes that is a lot more stressful for me and I find myself doom scrolling the USB. Devising a strategy, even if I end up not following it, does a lot to soothe my anxiety. 

Where do you see yourself musically in 2044?

I don't know what the future holds but I hope to be a full time composer of film and TV scores when I'm in my 50s and no longer want to tour constantly.

If you could have anything on your rider… What would you choose?

An indica-sativa hybrid joint (no tobacco), nice bottle of orange wine, German flat peaches, and a bathroom in the booth (anything is possible, right?)

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

Less celebrity worship, less influencer culture, less fame & money-chasing, more focus on behind-the-scenes folks (whether DJs or producers or labels) who foster community and tirelessly build their local scenes.

Ciel - 36˚C

Recording of Woody92's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

Dekmantel Festival 2023

Woody92 at Dekmantel Festival 2023

Mala Junta rabble rousers DJ Tool and D.Dan are up next for Zenaari Mix 010, but leave your biases at the door because this isn’t their usual high-speed mischief. In the vein of Zenaari’s hallmark off-kilter electronics the Berlin based pair are here instead to take you on a journey within. This one’s less for warehouse raving, more for solo spiritual contemplation: an invitation to probe the subconscious and transcend material experience. It’s a thorough exploration of their ambient predilections that range from featherlight textures to faded melodies that lilt like waves on a metaphysical shore. This liminal collage of gentle lullabies and acoustic murmurs is soft and a touch plaintive, but warm and loving all the same. Invoking everything from glitchy IDM to ballads that bend towards the strange and pineal, a technicolor dream sequence conjured up by this offbeat techno double-act.

@dj-tool
@ddan-sounds

Zenaari Mix 010 - Dj Tool & D.Dan

Further Inward with TSUNIMAN

Sculpting a thin line between psychedelic musics, TSUNIMAN unveils a four chapter story as testimony of their sonic imprint. A polychromic sound alchemy that captivate the senses. The endless loop of a dream within a dream.

@tsunimanmusic 
Visual : @janloup
Dive into the ego less realm - 08/2024
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Benji Vaughan - Hexagon Flush
Elle - 456
John Plaza - Bandidos
TAMA - Dual
Alexskyspirit - SNCTR5 (Original Mix)
Vermisst - Sempiternal (Original Mix)
Svarog - 23 Hours Of Drama (Oxygeno Remix)
Atmos & Echo-lab - Random Landlord
Claudio PRC - Axial (Original Mix)
Sindh - Akureh
Biocym - Underwater Vibrations
Vaishiyas - Lulu
LuneCell - The Firekeeper
Manmademan - Desire (Elysium Remix)
Andromeda - Out of the Limits (Original Mix)
praecox - minigram
RM Estali - 32gr
Fabio Florido - Kepler (Original Mix)
LuneCell - Fractal Language (Original Mix)
Falling Echoes - Circuit (Original Mix)
Son Kite - Clockwise
Echotek - Zdetz
Trois-Quarts Taxi System, Khey Mysterio - Psychotria (Original Mix)
Forest On Stasys - Natura Geometrica
Bumbling Loons - Omen
Slide - Closure (Slide's Fat Channel Mix)

Further Inward ✧ TSUNIMAN

Takumi Inamoto’s one of two minds behind Transcendence (the other fellow beat hawker DJ Maria), the Kanto region’s highest proposal for community-oriented music nights. It’s a rave collective that’s proven a trusty channel for his brand of squelchy, Goa-infused trance, profound and ritualistic techno with a direct line to the limbic brain. An expansive sound that has evolved from a keen affinity with Japanese rave culture and out of his steadily growing collection of CDs and records. This master selector deals in skittish rhythms and ominously brewing atmospherics, and walks a hazy path through the twilight realm that precipitates a kind of reverence that’s often rare. From his native land to KUNE Festival and Amsterdam's Garage Noord, these prolific beats are exporting a style palpably his and putting his sigil on the ascendant. Bassiani Podcast 238 is his prototypical sound, a throbbing mass of beats that morphs larger in the direction of unmapped worlds, a two-hour studio mix that unapologetically pulls you towards its slick and hazy centre.

@takumiinamoto1994

Bassiani invites Takumi Inamoto / Podcast #238

GiGi FM 
soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/gigi-fm
instagram : https://www.instagram.com/gigif_m/

Altinbas
soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/altinbas
instagram : https://www.instagram.com/altinbas.t/

On Board w/ GiGi FM b2b Altinbas @ GIMIC - 19 December 2024

DJ TOOL - Organik Festival (Taiwan) 27.04.2024

Founding member of Axces Recordings and Danish DJ/producer Kasper Marott returns to the Bassiani airwaves with a Zenaari edition that studies a much more phrenic side of his musical world. Driven by instinct, his work reflects a single minded aversion to commercial orthodoxy and the regular grind of a 40 hour work week: it’s all about feeling and a passion for creating the sounds that have kept him and his Copenhagen crew together, ‘nature, friends, family, home’. Forget the springy beats and dulcet melodies this time round, here is something entirely different and new. In stark contrast to his catalogue of jovial anthems, the likes of breakthrough hit Keflavik and 2021’s Mini Trance, Kasper’s inward-looking work slows those rhythms right down and investigates the possibilities of a sound much more restricted in palette. It’s a surprising turnaround for someone whose name evokes the breezy basslines of open-air jaunts, one packed with vibrating synths, understated instrumentals, and the electronic crackling of a wood fire on a balmy summer night. Zenaari Mix 018 is Kasper Marott like you’ve never heard him before, far from the dancefloor and burdening constraints of a rave context, Zenaari gives his inner world a voice, and the result is a rich, human and deep-toned 67 minute cut recorded in studio for this latest in the series.

@kaspermarott



Zenaari Mix 018 - Kasper Marott

This is pure peak-time energy, designed to ignite the dancefloor and keep the crowd moving as one. If you feel the freedom — like, repost, and add it to your set. Thank you for the support!

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