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. 

System Wide - Midnight Step

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