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.
Press
General Motors - Single
Bandcamp - Artists and Labels Offering Donations, Special Merch, and More
Resident Advisor - Bandcamp Friday July 3
Performing A Crime Remixes
Mixmag Premiere: Performing a Crime (Aquarian Remix)
Performing A Crime LP
DJ Mag - Six Acts You Need To Hear
DJ Mag - Album Review - 8.0
Inverted Audio - Signs Of A Broken Heart Premiere
Resident Advisor - New Tracks - Performing A Crime
Resident Advisor - News
Paper Magazine - Performing A Crime Music Video
Untitled909 - Interview
Exclaim - Album Review - 8.0
Now Magazine - Best Music
Forth - VA - Vol. 1
Resident Advisor - “Toronto collective Forth launches label”
Resident Advisor - April’s Best Music
Resident Advisor (UK) - This Invisible Phantom Premiere
Exclaim - Forth Vol. 1 review - 8/10
Now Magazine - Lead Music Feature - “Forth wants to put toronto on the dance music map”
XLR8R Free Download - Hadi Master
Untitled 909 - Toronto collective Forth launch
Very Good Person LP
Post-Punk “No Hard Feelings” Track Premiere
Vice US Featured Interview: Joel Eel's Eclectic Techno Debut Explores Growing Up Korean-Canadian
Vice Video Premiere “아주 좋은 사람 (Very Good Person)”
Vice Mexico “OMG” Track Premiere
I Die: You Die Video Premiere: “Fever”
Now Magazine - “The 101 best Toronto songs of 2017”
Now Magazine - “Best toronto songs of 2017”
Other
Fact Magazine - Never a Land Without People
Resident Advisor - Never A Land Without People
Nano Mutek Artist
Hartzine magazine on “So it seems” Release
“So It Seems” Feature on Post Punk
Paris La Nuit – Baltra Interview - Producer to keep an eye out for
Thump / Vice - Top pick for NYE – It’s not you it’s me Farewell 2016
Inverted Audio – Up-coming artists in Toronto in Nautiluss Interview
Umbrella Factory Sessions – Mention on Radio Programming
Toronto Star - Channel No. 2 Featured Article (CAD)