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.
Communion - VA
Joel Eel -The Sweat Beneath My Palms
Perpetual Care
01 TYVYT | IYTYI - Crushing Force of Reality
02 Ausschuss - Silk Law
03 Orchestroll - Dirge
04 Joel Eel - The Sweat Beneath My Palms
05 JING - 我早就全都忘記
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Communion is the ceremonial bind between the audio & visual union, a practice of spiritual worship. The Serviced by: Ausschuss (Circadian Rhythms, Haunter), Jing (6dimensions), Joel Eel (Perpetual Care, 2MR), TYVYT IYTYI (Pinkman Records) and introducing: Orchestroll, an orchestral imposture supergroup comprised of Montreal's imprint Éditions Appærent members and long-time collaborators Asaël Robitaille (Bataille Solaire, Orange Milk, Ninja Tune), Jesse Osborne-Lanthier (raster-noton, Halcyon Veil, Haunter Records) & Pierre Guerineau (Essaie Pas, Ninja Tune, DFA Records).
released November 6, 2020
Mastered by: Jesse Osborne-lanthier in Montreal, QC, Creative Direction & Design by: Joel Eel
Photography by: James Kachan
released November 6, 2020
Mastered by: Jesse Osborne-lanthier in Montreal, QC, Creative Direction & Design by: Joel Eel
Photography by: James Kachan