Ciel
also plays Berlin — 9 nights
Since throwing her first party in 2015 and putting out her stellar debut EP, Electrical Encounters, on Peach Discs two years later, the Xi’an, China-born and Toronto, Canada- based Ciel has blazed a path as one of the hardest-working and most innovative artists in electronic music.
Solo production highlights since Electrical Encounters include Hundred Flowers on Coastal Haze, Why Me? on Ghostly’s Spectral Sound, Orlando on !K7 Records, Ecstatic Editions vol. 1, the premiere release on Eris Drew’s vinyl-only label, and her pièce de résistance; the 2023 debut album Homesick, which she toured live internationally in 2024.
Collaboratively, Ciel’s efforts are just as impressive, from the intricate, delicate Free EP with Kilig to the subterranean, propulsive Lunagenesis with Priori as Loopchasers. Excursions in bass and breaks with Dan Only as Cloudsteppers and murky, doofy cuts with CCL (on Tilda’s Goat Stare) and D.Tiffany (as Psychedelic Budz) further demonstrate Ciel’s versatility and seemingly boundless imagination, as do inventive remixes for the likes of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Jacques Greene, Seb Wildblood, Off the Meds and Adam Pits.
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An adventurous selector adept at stitching together disparate styles and genres, Ciel has played at some of the world’s most celebrated venues including fabric, Robert Johnson, De School, Hot Mass, Smartbar, Berghain Panorama Bar and Nowadays, and at beloved festivals such as Draaimolen, Dimensions, Movement Detroit and MUTEK. A typical DJ set might move through dreamy downtempo, wiggly tech house, psychedelic techno, UK bass, slamming speed garage, and hardgroove to work through a diverse range of dancefloors and moods, from deep and trippy to unabashedly euphoric.
Community-minded and deeply principled, Ciel has always supported and promoted colleagues and causes she believes in and is currently organizing with Toronto’s chapter of Writers Against the War on Gaza. An outspoken advocate for equity and social justice in electronic music, her values are inextricable from her work as a producer, DJ, label boss and radio host, a quality that endears her to like-minded fans and artists all over the world.
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Records out on Turbo Recordings, !K7, Spectral Sound, Tartelet Records, Mister Saturday Night Records, Banoffee Pies, Jacktone Records, X-Kalay, Peach Discs and Wisdom Teeth. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
- Fri 4 DecTBA - East WilliamsburgGolden Record NYC28 going
2026
- Sat 25 Julpublic recordstheir 3rd night
- Fri 22 MaySignaltheir 4th night · Signal NYC
- Sat 28 FebH0L0their 2nd night · H0L0 NYC, ReSolute, fabric
- Sun 8 FebSignaltheir 3rd night · Ben Richardson, SPRKLBB, Spaghetti Strap
2025 — 4 nights
- Wed 31 Dec 2025TBA - Secret East Williamsburg Locations & Green Room NYCGolden Record NYC, Green Room NYC, Misbehave.NYC, PACIFIC MODE, VigilanteNY, Vin.yl, trommel.
- Thu 11 Sep 2025Signaltheir 2nd night · Signal NYC
- Sat 5 Jul 2025BASEMENTfirst time · basement ny
- Sun 4 May 2025Signalfirst time · Ben Richardson, SPRKLBB, Spaghetti Strap
2024 — 3 nights
- Fri 27 Dec 2024public recordstheir 2nd night
- Fri 8 Mar 2024Paragonfirst time
- Sat 20 Jan 2024Nowadaysfirst time
2023 — 2 nights
- Fri 6 Oct 2023H0L0first time · ReSolute
- Sun 27 Aug 2023public recordsfirst time
Their rooms
One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.
- SignalMay 2025 – May 20264 nights
- public recordsAug 2023 – Jul 20263 nights
- H0L0Oct 2023 – Feb 20262 nights
Once each: BASEMENT, Paragon and Nowadays. Two of the 14 listings never named a room, and are not counted as one.
Who they play with
Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.
- SPRKLBBSignal ×2 · May 2025 – Feb 20262 nights
- x3butterflyH0L0 ×1, Paragon ×1 · Oct 2023 – Mar 20242 nights
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