Paradox Shift
That night, the city stood like an unfinished mechanism: the clock hands moved, but time did not. Two sound-network technicians, known at the console as System Wide, noticed a strange kind of glitch: signals arrived before they were sent. As if the echo were outrunning the voice.

To measure the shift, they sent a low impulse through the cables—dry as the snap of a breaker. The music didn’t “kick in,” but the sidewalks felt for a common beat: in the metro, footsteps began to snake; the traffic lights blinked like a metronome; and a rollerblader along the embankment carved arcs between passersby. A couple at a kiosk, mid-sentence, turned at the same moment—a precise pivot at the corner, as if a choreographer had pinned a cue in the air. No flash mob—just the city starting to dance by itself: couriers with short glides at crosswalks, children with fine footwork by the shop windows, the elderly tracing clear geometry with their hands. At times the silence tightened like an anti-drop, and the whole intersection froze on the “and-one,” only to flare a moment later into a new figure.

By dawn, people’s knees hummed pleasantly, and it was easier to meet each other’s eyes. System Wide wrote in the log: “Shift accepted. The world didn’t speed up—it found a count.” That’s how System Wide’s release Paradox Shift on Paperfunk Recordings was born: not an escape from the system, but a live reflash of it. Every time the city grows tight again, they send a short impulse—and reality takes half a step to the side, just enough for there to be room to dance again.

System Wide - Midnight Step

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. 

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Thanks to any and everyone that has taken the time to listen and comment on my music. It means a lot.

Labels
Freak/Obscene
Beneath The Surface 
Future Sickness
Jungle Syndicate
Order In Kaos
Tech Cycle
Black Hoe
Ex Machina 
Force
Foul Play
Mindocracy
Danger Chamber Digital
Theoryon DnB
Technorganic
For bookings  www.djempirex@gmail.com

EMPIRE X Was born in Florida where he was raised into a family of musicians and music producers by a Mother well known for her talents as a singer. At the age of 15 X was putting on live shows locally for young audiences dancing, rapping and rhyming lyrics at venues with a group of teenage performers. This was just the beginning of Empire X’s many musical talents. Since the day he was old enough to realize the “art” of music, X knew he had something in him musically that he was not going to let be unheard or unknown. He was originally introduced to the Jungle hard core music scene in the early 90’s which led to him meeting a local DJ in 1993 by the name of Chad Allen that caught his interest and provided him with his first introduction to DJ’ing. X found himself very intreagued with the ability a DJ had to capture the mind, body and soul of every person in the club by spinning vinyl and performing talents. In 1994 he started spinning out at clubs and parties which eventually led to music production. Since his life of Drum and Bass production began EMPIRE X has become a member of many major organizations and recording labels Such as Freak/Obscene UK, Future Sickness Rec. UK, Mind Saw Rec. NY, Foul Play Rec. Fl, Tech Cycle Rec. Russia,Force Rec. Fl. and Order in Kaos Rec. UK.
Throughout X’s musical career he has performed with many musical talents such as Dylan, Robyn Chaos, Gain, Evol Intent, Empress, Panacea,Limewax, Kryteria,Mumblz, and many more.

System Wide - Midnight Step

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