Gallery: Ciel [CA], Kia, DJ PGZ, Myles Mac & DJ Possum, Roka, D-Grade, Lex

About

Gallery returns to Second Story Studios on Saturday November 14th, riding the buzz of a packed-out Sep 25. It brings Toronto’s Ciel to Naarm/Melbourne for a day into night party running 4pm until 1:30am, stacked with some of the country’s most vital selectors. This one champions an international showcase with home-grown precision across Kia, DJ PGZ, DJ Possum & Myles Mac and Roka off the back of huge tours, plus support from Lex and D-Grade.

Ciel (Cindy Li) is a Xi’an-born, Toronto-based DJ and producer who’s spent the past decade becoming one of the most respected names in the international underground. Since throwing her first party in 2015, she’s built a rich solo and collaborative catalogue from her 2017 debut EP Electrical Encounters through releases on Ghostly’s Spectral Sound, !K7 and Eris Drew’s label, to her celebrated 2023 debut album Homesick. She’s played fabric, Tresor, Smartbar, Berghain’s Panorama Bar and Nowadays, holds a six-year radio residency on Rinse FM London, and co-runs Toronto label Parallel Minds.

Kia’s sound was shaped early by illegal raves and festivals like Japan’s Labyrinth and Portugal’s Waking Life, alongside Melbourne’s park party scene and Inner Varnika - the ecosystem that gave her her first gigs in the late 2010s playing deep, bass-tinged techno psychedelia. Since then she’s landed a residency at Nowadays, played Freerotation, Sustain-Release and Draaimolen, been named Resident Advisor’s Dekmantel Podcast 2024 Mix of the Year, and featured…