Joel Eel is a Korean-Canadian producer, performer, DJ, mix engineer, designer, and label manager working at the intersection of underground dance music and experimental sound. His latest album Love Infinity is out now via Perpetual Care and available on all streaming platforms.
Known for sculpting his own unique voice that spans techno, industrial, and emotive electronics, Eel’s work has been featured in Vogue, Vice, Visla Magazine (KR), DJ Mag, Resident Advisor, Paper Magazine, Netflix, Dummy Mag, and Exclaim!.
Known for sculpting his own unique voice that spans techno, industrial, and emotive electronics, Eel’s work has been featured in Vogue, Vice, Visla Magazine (KR), DJ Mag, Resident Advisor, Paper Magazine, Netflix, Dummy Mag, and Exclaim!.
Eel has performed at Red Bull Music Festival, SXSW, MUTEKTo, Long Winter x INUIM at the Power Plant, and was invited as a panelist for Long Winter Paris. His DJ mixes have appeared on platforms including NTS Radio, Red Bull Radio, Refraction, Balamii, Rinse France, Seoul Community Radio, Invisible City, and BORSCH Magazine.
In 2023, he collaborated with producer Leevisa to score the South Korean psychological horror/thriller 미혹 (Mi-hok / The Other Child) — starring Hyo Ju Park, Minjae Kim, and Sunwoo Cha (B1A4) — which premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
In 2023, he collaborated with producer Leevisa to score the South Korean psychological horror/thriller 미혹 (Mi-hok / The Other Child) — starring Hyo Ju Park, Minjae Kim, and Sunwoo Cha (B1A4) — which premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
According to various scriptures, love is apparently patient and kind -- but the scriptures didn’t dictate love taking place in various settings; such as a dancefloor. Joel Eel, however, has that covered — within the hedonistic haze lies a sound that’s emboldened by its industrialized intimacy and a propulsive force pulling the strings.
After an impressive 2018 that ranged from playing alongside Jeff Mills, DJ Stingray, Powell, Kangding Ray, Helena Hauff, Veronica Vasicka, Daniel Avery, Metz, Fucked up, Legowelt, Aquarian, Kontravoid, and Essaie Pas — the release of his debut album, Very Good Person — and a slew of appearances on platforms such as: Inverted Audio, Rinse France, Redbull Radio, NTS, Resident Advisor , and Vice.
After an impressive 2018 that ranged from playing alongside Jeff Mills, DJ Stingray, Powell, Kangding Ray, Helena Hauff, Veronica Vasicka, Daniel Avery, Metz, Fucked up, Legowelt, Aquarian, Kontravoid, and Essaie Pas — the release of his debut album, Very Good Person — and a slew of appearances on platforms such as: Inverted Audio, Rinse France, Redbull Radio, NTS, Resident Advisor , and Vice.
The Korean-Canadian producer has his sights sets on delivering a slew of evocative, introspective new material for the year ahead with forthcoming release Performing A Crime and a constantly-evolving live show. Armed with an already impressive clanger on Forth’s first compilation release, the Toronto native is continuing to shape his sound by engulfing himself within the moral implications that lie within the conceit of love itself.
When it comes to finding whoever’s right and wrong for you out in the haze, it’s now or never. If you can dream it, you can do love right — just make sure Joel is there to officiate the proceedings.
When it comes to finding whoever’s right and wrong for you out in the haze, it’s now or never. If you can dream it, you can do love right — just make sure Joel is there to officiate the proceedings.
Photgraphy by:
Anthony Tuccitto
Anthony Tuccitto