For the 18th edition of our mix series we are joined by a revered breakthrough of recent years, @ciel_dj.

A key figure on and off the dancefloor, Toronto-based Ciel has been an ever growing force on the electronic scene. Spearheading the female focused Work In Progress collective and co-founding the touted Parallel Minds imprint, she has helped bring diversity, safety and representation into the clubs whilst also working with advocacy groups to change the city’s laws to be more favourable towards creative ventures. Pushing a distinctive sound that is characterised by a club-focused blend of deep and energetic contrasts, she showcases why she is one to watch with a standout mix for the Junction 2 series.

Here is what Ciel had to say about the mix:

“This mix was inspired by 1) clubs reopening 2) my love of cheesy tech house wafters and 3) a desire to present the most authentic version of myself as a DJ. I think most Djs have very complicated feelings about making mixes, the process of premeditating a mix at home away from an audience and the insatiable drive for perfection can both be very anxiety-inducing. So I chose to do as little planning as possible, seeking instead a truly spontaneous recording experience with zero plan and nothing more than 2 USBs full of bangers. The result is a high energy 90-minute trip into trancey house, techy rollers, dub techno, and minimal-UKG tools. Play this on your way back to the club.”

Junction 2 Mix Series 018 - Ciel

At Field Maneuvers 2023, Optimo (Espacio) played the final set in the Sputnik tent as part of the Watching Trees takeover. "We expected everyone to be on their final reserves of energy," they said. "But it was instantly apparent that there was electric energy in the tent. It ended up being one of the most joyous, life-affirming gigs of [the year]."

@optimo-music @fieldmaneuvers

Find out more about Field Maneuvers 2024: https://ra.co/news/80472

RA Live - Optimo (Espacio) - Field Maneuvers, UK

“For the closing night of Return to the Source at the @ithqdetroit presents @thebunkerny party, we have a night of unique pairings, back to back sets from people who knew each other mostly, but usually don’t play together. After a full weekend of non stop great music, what better than the drama of the unknown combinations to keep you fully engaged, with deeply curated pairings and flows for each room. On May 27, @mikeservito x @jeffreysfire scheduled from 1am until 3am. Mike Servito always majestically closes out No Way Back, but what would this combination bring? Sfire brought the heat, and their styles melded in a slightly pitched down form, music from all eras appeared. To me, it was a form of sonic bliss. I went and asked the Danny from Bing (who does the sound and built the speakers for the Garden Stage) if he minded if we went later, he was all for it. So were Servito and Sfire, and it just kept getting better and better. The crowd was totally locked in, the feeling was ecstatic, it was truly a beautiful moment. A magical closing set that naturally extended from two hours to 5 hours of pure heat from two DJs whose whole life is this music and this culture — who could ask for more?” — BMG

Catch Servito and Sfire playing an extended set to close out No Way Back NYC presented by The Bunker at the Chocolate Factory as a day party on Sunday November 12:
https://ra.co/events/1983236

The Bunker Podcast 233: Mike Servito x Jeffrey Sfire

My contribution for Goodhood's Good Vibes mix series - Parts 1 & 2 combined, totalling 8 hours. The idea behind this mix is that it can be played when they open the store at 11:00am, and keep it running until close at 19:00. Enjoy x 

Daniel Avery - Lone Swordsman (Rei's Ambient Version)
Remotif - Gondwana At Noon
The Knife - Heartbeats (Live)
Janet Jackson - Got 'Til It's Gone
Casisdead - Pat Earrings (Inst)
The Sugarcubes - Birthday (JRobertson Dub)
OutKast - Ms. Jackson (Inst)
MC Lyte - Poor Georgie (Inst)
The Pharcyde - Runnin' (Inst)
Public Enemy - He Got Game (Inst)
Ed O.G - Love Comes And Goes (Inst)
Ghostface Killah - All That I Got Is You (Inst)
Jenny Hval - High Alice
Fleetwood Mac - Never Going Home Again (Croose edit)
My Army of Lovers - My Army Of Lovers (Concrete Mix)
Martika - Love Thy Will Be Done (Prince Mix)
Mark Seven - Sermon
James Massiah - 144000
Project Sandro - Blazer
Prins Emanuel - Aquarius
Novelist - The End (riddim)
Andrew Ashong - Flowers
King of Culture - Insincerity
Perrier & Rigg - Hotline Hold-Music
Saint Etienne - Love Can Break Your Heart (A Weatherall)
KZA - Open Up Slow Version
Spacemen 3 - Big City 
HOLY FUCK - Lovely Allen (Minotaur Shock rmx)
Beirut - Scenic World (Pocketknife rmx)
Iron & Wine - Each Coming Night (Pocketknife rmx)
Pender Street Steppers - Our Time (Dub)
Annie - Heartbeat (Maurice Fulton rmx)
Seb Wildblood - Amelia ft. Mauv (Suzanne Kraft rmx)
Sorceror - Video Magic (Chris Coco rmx)
Toshiki Ohta x Jack Savidge - Everbody All Woman
Metro Area - Piña
Ruby - Anna (Tevo Howard Mix)
MGMT - Electric Feel (Prince Language)
Underworld - Born Slippy (Alma & Mater edit)
Chaos in the CBD - Observe
Tevo Howard - Boing Pop (K Kovács rmx)
Daphne - When You Love Someone (Club Mix)
Jim-E Stack - Deadstream
Girls on Top - I Wanna Dance With Numbers
Daniel Avery - Lone Swordsman (Chris Carter rmx)
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (Krikor edit)
Nathan Micay - Industry (Italo Mix)
Traumprinz - 2Bad (DJ Metatron rmx)
Discovery Zone - Dance II (Gramrcy & Loveless Dub)
Discovery Zone - Dance II
Muriel Millon - Moi Je... (rmx)
Blood Orange - Augustine
Ideal - Schöne Frau (Losoul Inst Dub)
Sydney Youngblood - If Only I Could
Robyn - Heartbeat (Joakim rmx)
Lusine - Cirrus
Black Science Orchestra - New Jersey Deep
Mary J Blige - Just Fine (Inst)
Kornel Kovaks - Pantalon
Metro Area - Caught Up
Jeremy Deller - Voodoo Ray (JD Twitch rmx)
Axel Boman - Die Die Die!!
Francis Bebey - Coffee Cola (Young Marco rmx)
Grace Jones - Feel Up (Danny Tenaglia Mix)
Mark E - R & B Drunkie
DJ Mehdi - Lucky Girl
Recloose - Dust
Good Fellas - Let the Music (Summer Mix)
WhoMadeWho - Keep Me In My Plane (DJ Koze dub)
Roy Of The Ravers - Emotinium
Hot Chip - Take It In (Osborne rmx)
Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall (2 Slow 2 Lounge Mix)
Tevo Howard - The Promise (Black Electro Mix)
Tornado Wallace - Today Feat. Sui Zhen (I:Cube Beats)
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts (Inst)
Mekon - Stay (Royksopp rmx)
AR Kane - Crack Up - Rhythm Mix
Duke - So In Love With You (C-Edits)
Metro Area - Miura
Lord of The Isles - Ultra Violet
Medicine 8 - Gimme Special Thrills
Anthony + Camp - What I Like (Jellybean Dub Mix)
Tabu Ley Rochereau - Hafi Deo
Kelly Polar - In Time
FaltyDL - River Girl
Todd Terrje - Snooze 4 Love (Dixon rmx)
Nathan Micay - First Casualty
Haim - Forever (Lindstrom + Prins Thomas rmx)
Evans Pyramid - Where Love Lives
Aksel Friberg - To Be There With You (Disco mix)
Kinder Atom - Eagle Sprouts
Spriitzz - Where R U (Live Mix)
Barrington Levy - The Vibes Is Right (Morwell rmx)
Daniel Avery - Trip
DJ Ayres - Got Me Gone (Inst)
Yu Su - Xiu
Fred und Luna - Tanzakademie
DJ Shadow - You Can't Go Home Again
Jessie Ware & Sampha - Valentine
Margari's Kid - Init 1
PFM - One and Only
Cocteau Twins - Watchlar
PAN-AL - It’s Rigged
Fred und Luna - Glück auf
Stealing Sheep - Apparition
The Knife - Heartbeats Original Mix
Madonna - I'll Remember (Guerilla Groove Mix)
Kelis & Andre 3000 - Millionaire
Fugazi - I'm So Tired (RUTHLSS Piano)

Goodhood Store | Good Vibes Mix 119 + 122 (Full 8 hour Mix)

In an era of everything at once, Gabrielle Kwarteng is a DJ who weaves stories that often look to the past, while always focusing on possible futures. Dip in to hear a range of dance music from downtempo to deep house to techno rollers - and everything in between.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/gabrielle-kwarteng/episodes/gabrielle-kwarteng-18th-april-2025

Gabrielle Kwarteng 180425

Deep house with heaps of soul to guide spring into summer.

"House music to me is about emotion… it's about how it moves you," says Suze Phaff, better known as Suze Ijó. Emerging from a thriving Dutch scene, Ijó belongs to a generation of DJs reshaping dance culture from the ground up, restoring soul and musicality to the centre of house music. It's a conversation happening not just in her home town of Rotterdam, but globally, among kindred spirits like MUSCLECARS and Dee Diggs in New York, Errol and Alex Rita of Touching Bass in London, and OMOLOKO in Belo Horizonte.

You could call Ijó a deep house DJ, but it's much deeper than that. Her sets embody house music in its most musical sense, rich in nimble percussion, woodwinds, calypso drums, gospel vocals, and romantic string sections. They channel the jazz-inflected heartbeat of the East Coast, the breeze of Balearic shores, and the light-footed rhythms of the Caribbean.

As Ijó explains in her Q&A, her RA Podcast "hopefully feels like a loving embrace." Opening with Key Trunks Ensemble's "Calypso of House (Paradise Mix)," she sets a buoyant, life-affirming tone that carries through the next 90 minutes. As the mix unfolds, her affinity for timelessness is clear, with selections that hark back to the golden age of house, from Lonesome Echo Production's "Sweet Dream (Shrine Sweet Mix)" to the euphoric swell of Blaze's "Klubtrance."

Listening to RA.986, it's no surprise that The Loft—David Mancuso's legendary, much-missed New York party—serves as a key influence for Ijó. "He wasn't confined to just one genre but would just play 'good music' in the right context," she explains. "He allowed the music to breathe."

If ambient music is defined by its ability to breathe in and reflect its surroundings, then Ijó's RA Podcast is ambient in the truest, most human sense: a deep, enveloping soundscape that feels like sunrise, like community, like home—wherever you may choose to listen.

@suze_ijo

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/986

RA.986 Suze Ijó

The Tartan Records boss and equally boss DJ Wallace signs off on his recent stint down under with a mix packed with deep sea dubs and bumping 00s techy rollers. Based in England, and having previously run a string of club nights in Edinburgh, Wallace is a proud tartan enthusiast with a full tank of punchy dubwise grooves in his sporran, with plenty of nods to his UK roots here over a glorious hour and a bit full of chunky d-floor burners. Let's have it!

@wallacejimmygs

Q. What sounds or feelings did you draw upon when gathering inspiration for this mix, and what listening environments could you imagine it being best enjoyed in?

A. It’s been a pretty bruising winter back here in the UK but we’d just had our first smattering of sunshine when I came to putting this mix together. I think that shift—the changing seasons and the first signs of trees beginning to bloom in my hometown (as pictured)—definitely influenced the first part of the mix. The middle section leans more into the kind of stuff I’d play out, but I wanted to bring things to a softer landing toward the end. There’s certainly an outdoor feel to the selections so maybe a listening environment to match but equally I love music’s ability to transport us from our current states so bang it on indoors and see what happens.

Q. Are there any songs in the mix that you were especially excited to share, and what is it about these tracks that resonate with you so much?

A. There’s a Steve O'Sullivan Dub early on which I recently found & it’s just a gloriously mixed and executed piece of dub techno. Towards the end another recent find by Argentinian producer Federico Molinari which to my ears sounds like a lost 80’s gem but was produced just last year. It's rare to hear a modern producer capture that classic vibe so authentically, without tipping into pastiche.

Q. You were just out here in Australia over the past weekend and from all reports the shows were on point! What kind of directions did you take people in during those sets, and how might the energy of your club sets differ from your mixes? 

A. Yes, so glad to have finally made it out here. Was a real joy to meet some lovely people in your scene and to get the chance to do my thing. Always revel in the challenge of playing in a new country as you’ve got to be on your toes to adapt but stay true to what you’re all about. I truly felt the warm Aussie welcome, so let’s call this mix a little parting gift to tide things over until next time x

MDC.310 Wallace

Jennifer Loveless steps up to the Phonica mix with a charged hour of sculpted house — poised between deep groove and melodic resonance. 
Born in Toronto and musically forged in Melbourne, she relocated to Australia in 2012 and quickly became a central figure in the country's underground electronic scene. Now based in Berlin, her fluid DJ style — steeped in queer dancefloor energy and late-night catharsis — has lit up some of the world’s most respected booths, from Panorama Bar and De School to Body Movements, Maricas/Mxricas, and Boiler Room’s Discwoman showcase in Sydney.
As a producer, her discography speaks in rhythms both personal and expansive. The debut Hard/Soft (Pure Space, 2020) blended meditative percussion and fragmented spoken word; 1.5m (Planet Euphorique) offered a pandemic-era pulse of emotional urgency. In 2021, the Water EP (Butter Sessions) landed with immersive, club-primed textures and was hailed by Resident Advisor as “career-defining.” Its 2022 follow-up Around the World expanded that sound with driving drums and psychedelic tones — its standout tracks appearing in DJ sets by Jayda G, D. Tiffany, and more.
Loveless’s mix here flows like her best sets: deep, intuitive, and full of movement. Sensual grooves fold into one another — not showy, just sharp. A warm, high-fidelity hour from a DJ who knows how to guide the floor from dusk to afterglow. We had a brief chat with Jennifer about the mix and what she has coming up:

Phonica Mix Series 133: Jennifer Loveless

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For the final recorded set from Campout 2019, we wanted to share a special moment from the weekend. @midland played a stunning three hour set at Hemlock Hole that helped set the tone for the weekend. 

Reflecting back on this time together feels almost like a dream. The threat of COVID-19 and the quarantine we’ve been forced to endure has forced us to hit pause on our lives and rethink our immediate futures. As much as we’d love to dance with you this summer, we tearfully must postpone Honcho Campout to August 19-22, 2021 due to COVID-19.  

For more information on our decision and future updates please visit: honchocampout.com/updates