#30: Ciel
How could I have come this far (in numbers, but also in dragging this project along) without Ciel! Her first and only release so far includes one of my favourite tracks of 2017: “Elevate (Go Off Mix)” - a beautifully dreamy, percussion-heavy breakbeat track with melodies that are poppy in their on-point catchiness. It was released on Shanti Celete’s label Peach Discs, thus the result of joined forces of two great musical minds.
Ciel’s DJ mixes have a wide range of the same on-point catchiness. In this breakbeat-heavy mix you have the bangers tightly arranged, one rubbing shoulders with the other. It gives off a sweat-drenched roughness which leaves little doubt that the New Year’s party where it was recorded must’ve been very good - at least.
Apart from all that, Ciel is also a very political figure: She started being active in dance music through a radio station at school in her homebase Toronto. Four years of running her own show followed. Female musicians were the main focus of the show and she has carried this commitment on until today: “Work In Progress” is the name of her current radio show and party-series to give more representation to female-identifying producers and DJs in electronic music. Fittingly, she is also part of the Discwoman collective, enabling her a wider audience for her great music and important activism alike. Amplifying each other, as Discwoman likes to declare.










