LOTR artist Alex Kassian on a warm up vibe.

LOTR X Refuge Worldwide | 30 July 2021

In the past few years Paramida has been busy aligning the planets to her liking: notching up residencies at Panorama Bar, Robert Johnson and Rinse FM. Now she sets her sights on something new: the moon. Her first 12” is here, and in it she channels its energy into 2 unexpected, long-awaited cuts: ‘Dream Ritual’ and ‘French House 2000’, releasing them on her own Love On The Rocks imprint and offering a glimpse of things to come with remixes from Youandewan and the mysterious Alchemical Sisters – AKA Octo Octa & Eris Drew. The eagle has landed, and she is energy.

‘Dream Ritual’ begins firing on all cylinders with heavy percussion and deep rolling basslines that recall early 90s house & jungle, leading to a frenetic, hi hat-heavy drum workout and the drop of a hypnotising lead, carrying us through sections of dreamy pads, swirling trippy clouds that build to breaking point then clear to reveal the raw breaks behind; a stormy sunrise over an extended rave on the shores of a tropical planet, made of ecstasy.

Eris Drew & Octo Octa’s sublime rework stretches the pads and otherworldly samples over a thumping, jump-up take on affairs: stop/start workouts between pressurised build ups, slamming percussion fills and a cheeky acid bassline, all twisting, turning and bubbling away to effervescent effect.

French House 2000 begins in more tribal territory, and with even more urgency. Pounding drums at 130bpm are laced with razor sharp hi hats and punctuated by rushes of dreamy distant melodies, synth stabs and nods to mid-90s French and UK house, techno and trance, a particular blend of genres synonymous with Paramida’s DJ output which she looks set to fuse ingeniously in her production.

Youandewan steps up for the remix, dialling down the intensity for a more reflective, more sci-fi take: a latenight spacewalk through a cluster of eerie sonic debris, moving at brisk pace with a stoned energy past trance-tinged horizons, pausing occasionally to take in the view.

The past is over. A new cycle begins. Dream Ritual will be released on 12” vinyl in a divine ceremony on the night of the full moon, October 20th, 2021.

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LOTR024 Paramida - Dream Ritual (incl. Eris Drew & Octo Octa + Youandewan Remixes)

LOTR x RWW - Ogazón - 30 Mar 2022

LOTR x RWW - Alex Kassian - 29 Apr 2022

Paramida returns with her second EP ‘Moonrise VII’, touching down on Love On The Rocks just in time for summer with 3 cuts of hands in the air, good time house, F1 tunnel rave and emotional dream house; her signature take on colourful, dreamy trance-inflected visions of the dance floor in full, untethered effect.

Sailor Moon House, inspired by the cult 90s anime series of the same name, is what would happen if Sailor Moon made house music: beautiful, colorful chaos energy; the sound of a dancefloor collectively nodding their heads, tapping their feet and losing their minds on a Sunday afternoon at Panorama Bar, on an infinity cruise to pure joy. Kawaii! Hypercolor trance clouds break to a shiny new dawn of driving rhythms, cheeky acid bass hooks and searching sonar pings, setting course for a masterclass in feeling good, sunrise filtering in through the blinds, leaving a sea of happy faces and twinking ecstasy trails in its wake. 

Space Ride finds Paramida in heist mode: a high-speed 8-minute car chase that swerves its way through dimly lit rave tunnels in the dead of night, leaving just the acid traces of its heavily chopped trance stabs to electrify the no-nonsense, pounding kick drum and groove workout, punctuated by abrupt u-turns via razor-edged rave corners, leaving the dance floor in the dust. Sampling SYT’s 1995 progressive trance track ‘Drift’ on Chris Hillman’s UK-based label Magick Eye Records, which has been serving up psychedelic trance, deep dub, downtempo and ambient since 1991, this track came about over the course of a year via a random Shazam/Hör-related chain of events that led to the original artists involvement, blessing Paramida’s edit and rework to re-introduce their lost jam to a new generation, with new bells and whistles, maxed out for ‘22. Seatbelts on!

33 is something completely different: 3 minutes and 41 seconds of shapeshifting, heavy-lifting ambient dream house that threatens to build into a massive emotional crying-on-the-dancefloor moment but instead flips gears before dropping you back in to a life-affirming, pure ecstasy bliss, the sound of the warmest, connected chemical embrace channelled into a sublime 221 seconds of being alive.

"The people of the world, all of them... tend to think only about what we cannot share. But our brains are all the same. We are the same people." 

- 美少女戦士セーラームーン

Much love to Chris Hillman at Magick Eye and Scott James & Christopher Hayne aka SYT for their collaboration on ‘Space Ride’. To find out more about SYT or Magick Eye, visit magickeye.com.

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Moonrise VIi

Moonrise VII

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LOTR025 Paramida - Moonrise VII

LOTR x RWW - Myles Mac - 23 September 2022

September

HÖR - Love On The Rocks - Paramida - September 19 2022

HÖR - Love On The Rocks - Alex Kassian - September 19 2022

A blissful hour of Ambient House with special guest Running Hot.

LOTR X RWW - Running Hot - 23 January 2023

Love On The Rocks invites special guest Fantastic Man.

LOTR X RWW - Fantastic Man - 27 February 2023

June

HÖR - Love On The Rocks - O.bee B2B Tomas Station - June 1 2023

HÖR - Love On The Rocks - tINI - June 1 2023

Love On The Rocks invites special guest Lukky.

LUKKY MIX

LOTR x RWW - Lukky - 28 August 2023

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HÖR - Love On The Rocks - Paramida B2B Alex Kassian - August 24 2023

LOTR x RWW - FIONA - 25 September 2023

Love On The Rocks invites London-based DJ and producer Gatto Fritto.

LOTR x RWW - Gatto Fritto - 08 December 2023

Love On The Rocks invites LA-based Warehouse Preservation Society.

LOTR x RWW - Warehouse Preservation Society - 22 January 2024

Love On The Rocks invites Istanbul-based DJ, music collector, and radio host Zozo

LOTR x RWW - Zozo - 26 February 2024

Love On The Rocks celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a special Refuge Worldwide takeover. The first guest is Massimiliano Pagliara.

LOTR x RWW - Massimiliano Pagliara - 21 March 2024

Love On The Rocks celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a special Refuge Worldwide takeover. The next guest is TPR.

LOTR x RWW - TPR - 21 March 2024

Love On The Rocks celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a special Refuge Worldwide takeover. The next guest is Bekuchi.

LOTR x RWW - Bekuchi - 21 March 2024

Love On The Rocks celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a special Refuge Worldwide takeover. The next guest is Giammarco Orsini.

LOTR x RWW - Giammarco Orsini - 21 March 2024

Love On The Rocks celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a special Refuge Worldwide takeover. The last guest is Running Hot.

LOTR x RWW - Running Hot - 21 March 2024

Love On The Rocks is pleased to invite the Love International team, Chez de Milo and Ellie Stokes, for this month's show.

LOTR x RWW - Chez de Milo & Ellie Stokes - 5 April 2024

‘10 Years Love On The Rocks - Sky Is The Limit’ is a compilation celebrating a decade of the seminal label, a reflection on its journey, the current status of the dance floor and a pivotal moment for its founder; a personal essay over eight tracks on ten years in the game, from one of the most unique voices in the industry: PARAMIDA.

The V.A. features a selection of artists reflecting the idea of chosen family at the heart of the label – figures responsible for early releases such as Massimiliano Pagliara and Fantastic Man, to Alex Kassian, recent additions E-Talking and Running Hot, and newcomers to the label such as Sweely and Dreamphaze – a collaboration between Alex Bradley and 90s techno legend Neil Tolliday – to name a few.

Expertly curated and sequenced, equally rewarding in close listening and on the dancefloor, there’s a thread throughout that pairs laid back grooves with cinematic, emotional chords, tripped out keys and melodies, and variations in ambience, with highs and lows that feel reflective, nuanced, considered and masterfully crafted; a reflection of the maturity that has developed in the label’s output since its first release in 2014, Massimiliano Pagliara’s classic ‘Flying Away From You’.

Connecting classic house, prog and balearic influences, the label’s sound remains indefinable but unmistakable and in full effect here, not afraid to reference iconic prog/trance and even euro dance in a compilation that envelopes the complete spectrum of dance floor emotion. There’s nothing out there quite like this – a quality true of all the label’s releases, an achievement that was both the focal point of the label at its inception and a full circle moment that speaks to its development – staying true to itself while progressing with (and shaping) the times – a decade later.

“I never expected Love On The Rocks to make it to ten years,” explains PARAMIDA, whose own trajectory over the same period of time – to Panorama Bar resident and one of the most prominent, boundary-pushing and sought-after artists in the game – has been nothing short of meteoric.

“Everything has a beginning, a middle and an end. When the time comes, I know what the last release will be. But it never feels like the right time. This compilation represents the past, present and future. It’s an inflection point. After this, anything is possible.”

Sky is the limit.

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LOTR027 - V.A. - Sky Is The Limit

B1 Dream Machine exclusively streamed on Boiler Room:
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A1 Fantastic Man - Fountain Gate



Love on the Rocks is very excited to present Sharif Laffrey's "Key Jam A.C.I.D.". 
His first release since the sleeper hit "Turn It Up" was released on Discos Capablanca over two years ago.

"Key Jam A.C.I.D." is The Treasure + The Mystery. Laffreys signature raw edit style is in full effect on this 9 minute proto-dance heater. 

Sharif Laffrey has been playing records and making music for 20 long hard years. Born in Detroit, Michigan - he’s worked on the line checking camshafts for Chryslers & at Submerge for Mike Banks - at the same time.

He toured Asia with Juan Atkins and once had to chase grown man through the streets at night, who had crawled into his living room through an open window.
An active member in Detroit’s early rave scene, Sharif remembers booking all foreign gigs with a fax machine - and would still do it that way, if anybody else had them anymore.
He drove a black Trans-Am from 1990 to 1995.

Acid, tons of random stuff, tough, sexy, lovely, slow. Freak Mode. He is dealing with the fame. More to come. Slowly.

LOTR008 Sharif Laffrey - Key Jam (A.C.I.D.)

Omer joins the Love On The Rocks family with a massive underground smash, the not-so- well-kept secret rework that’s been doing the rounds recently among a handful of trusted DJs, inducing hands-in-the-air hysteria and clocking up more than a few plays in clubs from Robert Johnson to Panorama Bar. 

Finally it lands here as the title track of the EP, perfectly tooled for any poolside dance party.

Phew!

Finding just enough room for another huge jam to share the same side, Omer moves effortlessly into his trademark late night melancholic trip territory with High Hopes, leading in with snapping percussion before giving way to a fierce bassline, swirling layers of melody and synths that resonate with warmth and emotion.

Rounding out the proceedings, Back and Forth pulses with electric energy from the word go, quickly pulling you into its distinctly neon after-dark atmospherics, with a forboding hook that twists around itself amid spiralling tension, and on into euphoria. You and me to the party, you and me all night. 

You and me to the party, you and me all night.

A1. Omer - Bye

LOTR019 Romie Singh - Cry Freedom FULL LENGTH

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The Forbidden Dance

LOTR021 Longhair - The Forbidden Dance

Alex Kassian steps up for his first solo 12” on Love On The Rocks with ‘Oolong Trance’, a driving, tropical-tinged uplifting acid trip in ‘Club’ and ‘Paradise’ mixes and a supercharged ‘ADHS’ mix from Telephones. Kassian is no stranger to the label, which celebrated its fifth birthday last year with the 4-part ‘Supergau’ compila- tion that opened with Kassian’s ‘Chopstick Romance’. He also remixed Ghost Vision in 2018 on their Love On The Rocks debut, ‘Shakuhachi’.

Young Kassian from Kyoto, who has the silkiest hair in house, has recently been enjoying success alongside his longtime collaborator Hiroaki OBA as Opal Sunn, taking their live show on tour around Europe and Asia with stops at Field Maneuvers in the UK and Panorama Bar in Berlin. Their first releases on their own imprint, Planet Sundae, got the attention of the late Andrew Weatherall (RIP) and early support from the likes of DJ Sprinkles and Nick Höppner, who released their last two EP’s on his label, Touch From A Distance: ‘Parallax’ in late 2018, and ‘Laika’, earlier this year.

As well as being Kassian’s debut on the label, ‘Oolong Trance’ is the first Love On The Rocks record for 2020, so, what’s in the tea? The Club mix is classic Kassian: big kicks, driving percussion, swirling pads, a tropical sunrise, a celestial organ and a large dash of acid. The Paradise Mix is what you get when you let it brew a couple seconds longer: off the charts trance levels and Alex delivering some truly ecstatic piano work, channelling the spirit of a young George Michael, truly intoxicated on the Oolong drank.

Telephones also delivers a hell of a brew, with his 9-minute, 90s house and garage inflected ‘ADHS’ remix taking the keys off in yet another direction and delivering a energetic, Chicago-inspired oddball rework with hints of De- troit and more than a few drops of old school, classic house spiritualism. The tea, as they say, is particularly good today.

Oolong Trance

LOTR022 Alex Kassian - Oolong Trance (Incl. Telephones Remix)

Love On The Rocks is back with our first record of the year – a remix of a obscure psychedelic proto-trance cut from ’93, remastered, reissued and remixed for the future by @roza-terenzi and @alexkassian.

‘State Of Mind’ was first released on Rhythm Design in 1993, then remixed in ’94 by @justin-drake and @o-s-m / Quinn Whalley, AKA Slack, who released their first 12” on @andrew-weatherall’s Sabres of Paradise label and years later would go on to found seminal dance music acts @peacedivision & @paranoid-london.

But not before leaving a trail of fire 12”s and remixes behind them, which they found time to do between running around London, DJing, throwing parties and pulling all nighters in the studio. This, in our view, is the key to it all - equal parts tribal, trance and techno, built around a pulverising kick drum, with synths direct from outer space, incomprehensible computerised vocals seemingly delivered through vocoder, rewinds, and breakdowns galore; it sounds like a transmission from an alien race, relentless and insane.

The vinyl comes in a full sleeve with special artwork, inlay with notes from Justin Drake & an exclusive download code.

Strictly limited, vinyl only, no repress!

Available for pre-order now @ http://loveontherocks.bandcamp.com, @zwartgoud + @junorecords.

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State Of Mind (Slack Mix)

LOTR023 Peyote Dreams - State Of Mind (Slack Mix) ft. Roza Terenzi & Alex Kassian Mixes

Love On The Rocks is back with our first record of the year – a remix of a obscure psychedelic proto-trance cut from ’93, remastered, reissued and remixed for the future by @roza-terenzi and @alexkassian.

‘State Of Mind’ was first released on Rhythm Design in 1993, then remixed in ’94 by @justin-drake and @o-s-m / Quinn Whalley, AKA Slack, who released their first 12” on @andrew-weatherall’s Sabres of Paradise label and years later would go on to found seminal dance music acts @peacedivision & @paranoid-london.

But not before leaving a trail of fire 12”s and remixes behind them, which they found time to do between running around London, DJing, throwing parties and pulling all nighters in the studio. This, in our view, is the key to it all - equal parts tribal, trance and techno, built around a pulverising kick drum, with synths direct from outer space, incomprehensible computerised vocals seemingly delivered through vocoder, rewinds, and breakdowns galore; it sounds like a transmission from an alien race, relentless and insane.

Roza Terenzi brings typical A-game to her mix, taking down the tempo but amping up the weird, loosely following the original’s structure of build ups and strip downs while lacing its tribal/extra-terrestrial vibes with additional jungle sounds and atmospheric pads, for what feels like a morning stroll through a psychedelic rainforest.

Alex Kassian takes no prisoners with his extended update/workout complete with booming vocal samples, planet-destroying bass and layers of pin- sharp, slamming percussion that smartly echoes the original and retools it for ‘21.

The vinyl comes in a full sleeve with special artwork, inlay with notes from Justin Drake & an exclusive download code.

Strictly limited, vinyl only, no repress!

Available for pre-order now @ loveontherocks.bandcamp.com, @zwartgoud + @junorecords.

Release date: March 5, 2021

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LOTR023 Peyote Dreams - State Of Mind (Slack Mix) Roza Terenzi's Slow Buck

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