First Protocol
When familiar communication systems collapse, one channel always remains — the emergency one.
Deviloper calls it First Protocol. It’s not a document or a rule, but a sequence of impulses designed to reboot an entire world. There is no “human–machine interface” here — only a data stream you’re thrown into with no manual for getting out.

Each track on this release is a separate command in a low-level language: syncopated rhythm as a sync signal, bass as voltage on the bus, cold synths as diagnostic packets testing whether the system can survive a new mode. Drum & bass turns into infrastructure — tunnels for packets to rush through, noise repurposed as a cipher.

Paperfunk Recordings captures the exact moment when First Protocol is launched for the first time. After this there is no way back to “before”: every future release will be just another layer over this core. If, while listening, you feel the frequency of your inner noise shifting, it means the protocol is live, the connection is established — and backward compatibility no longer exists.

First Protocol

Deviloper - Micelium

Deviloper - Death Hand

Deviloper - Dark Train

Deviloper - Black fabric

PAPERFUNK RECORDINGS – is a dark drum&bass label which sound will be based on the hard and metallic techstep and neurofunk sound. There’s no place for popular sound. The label’s main goal is to flood cities and towns with the special mixtures containing nano-robots that supposed to get inside people’s brains and plunge them down in the deepest adolescent memories and show them the unrealized future. The hardness of the mix, the steel of the drums, the oil of the bass and the rust of the effects – are the main and crucial keywords of the PAPERFUNK label.


Officially speaking, our tracks will be selling out on the majority of the online music stores that’s why it’ll always be easy to find them available on the most popular online shops such as Beatport, TrackitDown, Digital-Tunes, etc.


We’d like to pay special attention to the concept of our label as an engine of progress. New talents will be expressing themselves right before your eyes and soon, behind the battle embrasures the fearless robots who, with the help of lasers and magnetic impulses, are able to bring you the meaning of the Neurofunk and Techstep’s existence, will arise. 

First Protocol

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