@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

YAZZUS at Draaimolen Festival 2024

This mix is a tribute to all the memorable nights that I experienced in 2024.  Hope you enjoy it, Happy New Year❤️‍🔥

Soundcloud ➟ @corakoala
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Upperberry | Cora

(lip) service edt. 3 ābnamā

**Available as Digital & Vinyl on our Bandcamp - https://rrose.bandcamp.com/album/2-or-3-drops-of-height-have-nothing-to-do-with-savagery

T4T LUV NRG returns with a new release from Rrose, an artist who has been broadcasting transmissions of esoteric minimalism to the worldwide underground for nearly three decades. Stretching across eras and intentionalities within their work, they invite listeners to inhabit unfamiliar realms of phenomena in the dance. Influenced by the surrealist whimsy of Marcel Duchamp & fellow provocateurs in the Dada movement; the artist as self, subject, and instrument is disassembled, embraced, & reassembled back again into an enticingly abstract form under the sonic melding of experiential sound & techno as the medium.

Rrose’s captivating dexterity & evocative tension courses with an arcane fluidity throughout each of the record’s three tracks; their entrancing qualities perfect as tools to supplement the rhythmically inclined DJ bag, or as standalone experiences in circadian perception. “Second Coming” arises in vaporous glamour & undulating perceptive shifts, unfurling an atomic web of percussion occupying an elegant liminality evolved by the listener as participant. “Triplicate” expands our journey further, a dance of glimmering waves inside an elastic cocoon, molting with new anatomical downloads in between spaces of stillness, movement, & rippling kinetic vectors. As the B side morphs into “Silhouettes”, we glide onwards in a dance of smoldering glow, threads of energy conduction meld & drape themselves over subsonic pulsations, free flowing into constellations of momentum over a sprawling canvas.

The seeds of this project were planted during a fateful evening shared between Rrose & label head Octo Octa at a gig held in a former mortuary in Bristol, involving everything from nudity and mud, to gongs and piercing needles. It’s only right that through this nonsensical, & dare we say “Dada-esque” experience, that the two became friends. Within these layers of absurdity, a mutual appreciation of nature, & a later collaboration in Rrose’s curation of the ambient-leaning Air Texture series, “2 or 3 Drops of Savagery Have Nothing To Do With Height” was brought to life in a characteristic stream of delicate composition, fantastical wordplay, and the beauty of unknowing.

Through moving bodies, emphasizing the tactile qualities of sound, & inducing transcendent states of being, T4TLUVNRG finds synergy in the ecstatic with Rrose’s intents of the project; psychedelia at it’s most transformative & grounding node, letting subsonic pulsations and threads of energy conduction guide you deeper & deeper into an enveloping beat.

Text by Shayna C. 

releases March 28, 2025

Written & Produced by Rrose
Artwork by Jon-Paul Villegas
Layout by João Ervedosa

Rrose - 2 or 3 Drops of Height Have Nothing to do With Savagery (Clips)

Researcher of the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable, Pérez brings a blistering techno and trance dawn trip from one of his secret sis tema gatherings. 

@usuario_m
@sistemasoundsystem

QUUL and the GANG #55 : Pérez

LA based dj warning (@waaarning) is teaching us what he does best: 1h hour of relentless, passionate, drum-driven choons with a spicy touch. the gyration station boss with appearances at nowadays NYC, the lot etc. is surely not to miss on his europe tour this summer!

trip to phantasy #8 DJ WARNING

Another lovely memoir of friendship here with the ever talented Swiss artist phrex, who works under various aliases, including @seduction-dream-dust, with Animix #174. Juj is a beautiful person inside and out and his musical outputs are a reflection of his multifaceted character - often referencing his middle eastern heritage. In his animix, a wild dnb speed journey, filled with adventure and emotion, awaits.

Beyond political and social nods, phrex has an inredible ability to merge genres and styles in a way that remains seemingly fresh and unique - which, in 2025,  is harder and harder to come by. We originally met at random, as I strolled past a stage whilst he was playing an ambient set at Waking Life in 2022. The self-made remix of "Alone" by Olive he was playing drew me in and led me to ask for an ID. in return, he gifted me a cassette of the song. A beautiful memory of music exchange and friendship, and i'm really happy to finally have him in the series.

Lots of love - thank you Juj!

Downloads enabeld.

Animix One Hundred & Seventy Four: phrex

El Llanto

[PREMIERE] Volgin & Ertan Koculu - I Wanna (Danny Waters Remix)

When recording this mix, I imagined playing a set at 6AM, at the end of a high intensity rave outside in nature. Going from hazy pre-dawn darkness, to the sun cresting over the horizon and into glorious sparkling sunlight 🌤

A sunrise set for when you can telepathically feel the energy of everyone else on the dance floor. These are the moments I am missing right now, and this mix is dedicated to those luminescent mornings.

These are all my most sacred, emotional, magical tracks in one mix, including many of my favourite ‘90s techno-trance records from a golden time for transcendental dance music. 

100% euphoria ヾ(✯◠ ֊ ◠)ノ♪


This set was first broadcast on Club Quarantäne on the 29th of March 2020. Thanks to the Club Q crew for having me on, an innovative project of connection in this time of isolation 😊

BuyMusic.Club list of everything in this mix on Bandcamp: https://buymusic.club/list/sybil-100-euphoria

100% euphoria ヾ(✯◠ ֊ ◠)ノ♪

mix series and label by @deep_creep

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label ~ https://pi-pi-pi.bandcamp.com

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