CCL (@ccl-url) has many tricks and plenty of surprises up their sleeve. London-born, US-bred but now Berlin-based, they are playful in what they play but serious about how they play it, whether that's head spinning 160bpm cut, "cowgirl-breaks or wiggle steppers." The key for this multidisciplinary artist and former New Forms festival curator is to find the similarities and differences between shades of sound and rhythm and exploit them to spellbinding effect. As a producer, they are no different and have always managed to find fresh in-between sounds on labels like Fever AM and Discwoman. 

The singular DJ steps up this week with almost two hours of pure sonic adventure. It's a perfect showcase of how they can soundtrack imaginary worlds from humid future jungles to robot dances in the sky. You'll hear rhythms you could never imagine and contort your body in impossible ways, all while admiring the dexterity of the DJ who has threaded together such a trippy trip.

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Dekmantel Podcast 427 - CCL

Liquefaction of rhythmic and melodic matter.

SoundCloud: @ccl-url

PURE Guest.040 CCL

Dj Temporary live from the Big Room Boogie Showcase at Dripping 2023

@gggroovyyy

DJ Temporary at Dripping 2023

@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

“Late night in a dark smoked out club. Trippy percussive and heavy.”

Based between Brooklyn and Puerto Rico, Tano is the founder of record label In Armatura where he has been self-releasing a string of EPs for the last three years. Now he lands on Glasgow-based label Redstone Press with a killer four-track EP, ’10-11’, which was inspired by the psychedelic rave energy of Freerotation and features remixes from Tomb and Delay Grounds who all started making music around the same and connected through sharing said music. Aside from his productions, Tano’s been DJing consistently for the four years, with key dates including Mizz Softee, Analog Soul at Bossa Nova Civic Club, Hot Mass and hyper_k in the US as well as dates in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Berlin. 

’10-11’ by Tano is out now via Redstone Press - buy here: https://redstonepress.bandcamp.com/album/10-11

@tanodj

Tracklist:
Product Toss-Trundle
Millia-Hopper7
ZUTZUT-Jadea
Avernian-Ruka
Impey-Give It 2 Me (Instrumental)
RESY-Tull
WRACK-Attack Mode
Leese-Baai
Entrañas-Vándalo
LWS-Wood for the Trees
Outsider-Good Bone Structure
Angelos-La Jungla
TSVI-The Healer
Vexxe-Pulse 5 (Meta Remix)
Impurity-Matsutake
Lucas-Darkness & Movement (Skin Teeth Darkness Remix)
9TRANE-MOAT
Dominus ft Magugu-Ready For War
Oliver Prince-Nuff Respect
Near Dark-Vile Child
JUDY-Dantza I
Yogg-Vanier
Tano-Blend of Poetry (Delay Grounds Remix)

Untitled 909 Podcast 166: Tano

“En este mixtape presento música local de gente que admiro muchísimo, también música que no ha salido a luz y música de artistxs que me han inspirado en su momento. Me gusta brincar en distintos tipos de géneros que creo son ambient, dub techno, breakbeat, house, garage, trance y ver si funcionan juntos. Algo constante que se escuchará en este set son ambiencias, bajos intensos y diferentes tipos de ritmos, rebajados y eventualmente rápidos; me parece va escalando y luego cierra cómo empezó tranquilamente. No es perfecto pero me divertí, ojalá lo disfrute quien lo escuche, la música es infinita y puede ser un loop infinito a la hora de producir, mezclar, experimentar. Shotout a la bandita que me compartió sus unreleased para este mix y que me ha apoyado en su momento.“

- Bluecommand

TRACKLIST

Bluecommand - Some people/Algunxs (unreleased) [WVWV]
Serge Morher - Eno (Feat. Tun-a & Lalo Rex)
Ranma Entero - Debris [Krema/Ineffable]
Delphis - GABA (unreleased)
Roza Terenzi - Bricks [DKMNTL066]
Mirror Lake - Omen Of the Desert Master (unreleased) [Unosquantxs]
Mwamwa - Volq [Salida Recs]
Naked Geometry - Plot Twist [Ineffable]
Stenny - P-zone [Ilian Tape]
Entrañas - Rastro [WVWV]
Syz - Burner FM [Banoffee Pies Records]
Glo My - Mennestere [WOMXN]
Hammer - Man Ray (Supreems Remix) [Loft Records]
Cautiverio - Nextlahualli (unreleased) [Unosquantxs]
Lupone - Teto [MuyMuy Limited]
Koscoy - Ephemeral 90's [Antimateria Sonora]
Unknown Archetype - The Serpent [R&S]
Makrina - Foresta X2
Ursula Prawn - Alive (Dj B2b Remix) [WOMXN]
Paurro - Meiyo/Honor [SOS MUSIC]
Ice Spice - Deli (Octoptic Breaks Edit)
Synkro - Let Me Go [Apollo Recordings]
Unmade - Escape [Salida Recs]
DEVS - Greater Distance From Earth
Phanta - Dark Orange [Ineffable]

Tumulto Mixtape 008: “Loop Infinito“ x Bluecommand

“This is the last known transmission from the Spaceship Bark.  Long story short, there were no survivors.“

@razrbark
IG: @razrbark

Distant Signals 030: Razrbark

live @ Nowadays for livwutang’s residency

Jonny From Space @ Nowadays

909 is a special number for us at RA—the name of one of the most hallowed drum machines in all of music, and one of the foundations of techno music—and we're more than happy to offer it up to a DJ who has been a long-time favourite of our team: Glasgow's Bake. In fact, we commissioned this mix roughly ten years ago, but you can't rush perfection. 

When Bake emerged as one of the heads heads behind the label All Caps—a relatively short-lived but influential imprint that released massive tracks like Flørist's "Marine Drive" and Kowton's "TFB"—he also quickly became one of the most impressive DJs in the post-dubstep access, appearing frequently at Hessle Audio events and sharpening his skills behind the decks at the country's best parties. Now he runs his own, Spirit, at Sub Club.

He has a wide-ranging style that touches on all kinds of leftfield techno and broken drum patterns. His nearly two-hour RA Podcast finds him at the end of a sort-of comeback year, and it touches on tracks from Shackleton, Laksa, Batu, Karima F and Levon Vincent, to give you an idea. It's the kind of mix that oozes expertise and practice without feeling showy—the signs of a truly great DJ. If you don't know Bake, then now you do.

@bake-all-caps

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/909

RA podcast

RA.909 Bake

@lisdalton casting spells and conjuring miracles at Hemlock Nights on Friday evening.

Campout Mix Series: Lis Dalton

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HNYPOT 291: CCL's Ode to the Queer Steppas

Agencia comunitaria / Proyectos y talento latinoamericano

Nuestrxs artistas (A-Z)

1OO1O - @1oo1o
Access Device - @accessdevice
Bacxrdi
Basho - @basho_MX
Bluecommand - @mariana-cosio-200143026
DJ Fabis - @dj_fabis
DJ Hidrataccioni - @dj-hidrataccioni
ETRA - @fknetra
FKA Phaedra - @phaedramu
HMR - @xhmrxxx
Julia Toporek - @julia-toporek-v
Kebra - @idkebra
Lapi Showcase - @lapifilia
Lyo XS - @lyoxs
Mensik - @mensikmusic
Monkey Junkie Funky - @monkeyjf
Orbe Nacimiento - @orbe-nacimiento
Ricxrdi - @ricxrdi
Torina Moreno - @torinamoreno
Un Dilema - @un_dilema

Tumulto Mixtape 008: “Loop Infinito“ x Bluecommand

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