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.
Perpeptual Care
on Refraction
REFRACTION is a dao of music, art, and culture enthusiasts— a diverse community who produce festivals and ongoing events, release NFT projects, and create written, visual, and audio content around art, culture, and music today.
Launching festivals across the globe, with the performances, installations and music sets being recorded to culminate in an extended festival in the Open Metaverse, establishing partnerships with: Mutek, Public Records, Standard Time, and Rhizome.
As part of their Creatives First editorial, the label was asked to provide an exclusive mix, along with a short interview:
Eel's selections are mostly crystalline club gear, shaped with angular synths and hard hitting drums. But they are also intimate and warm, filled with moments of beauty and surprise. This is the sound of a community coming together to create, as he puts it, "our own universe of sound."
Full Article
2023
Ausschuss & Joel Eel
on Rinse France
celebrating the recent release of Joels new album 'Love infinity' (featuring Ausschuss).
Rinse France Website
2022
Baltra w/ Leevisa & Joel Eel
on Balamii Radio
Live from Brooklyn NYC, Baltra returns with Leevisa and Joel Eel for two hours of dance floor ready Drum and bass, techno and two step.
Balamii Radio Website
2022
Ayvss Magazine Mix
AVYSS (アビス) A platform with multifaceted content: feature articles focusing on new scenes and communities, sales of collaboration items in collaboration with domestic and foreign artists, online events using original virtual space, or offline events
Ayvss Magazine Mix
Year:
2022
Red Bull Radio
Red Bull Radio broadcasts handpicked music and in-depth interviews with influential artists from around the world.
Red Bull Radio