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BBC Radio 1's Residency - Paramida

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)

Paramida - Konbanwa (Ibiza Mix)

Paramida - Omen (Frankfurt Mix)

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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Wholesale enquiries: distribution@loveontherocks.cc

Moonrise VIi

Moonrise VII

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LOTR025 Paramida - Moonrise VII

It's Paramida - live from Piknic Électronik 2022 in Montréal.

Paramida | Piknic Électronik

September

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

In Amber

Grace (Paramida's LOL Mix)

BBC R1 Residency - Paramida - A Beautiful Farewell

BBC R1 Residency - Paramida - Personal Treasures

BBC R1 Residency - Paramida - Special Places

BBC R1 Residency - Paramida - Introduction

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

Pastures new. This July we made our debut in Puglia for Polifonic Festival.

Paramida B2b Simone De Kunovich | Boiler Room x Polifonic Festival

Collaboration from Paramida & E-Talking. Paramida is the well-respected head of the Love on the Rocks label whilst E-Talking is the pseudonym of Emmanuel Corre, one half of Nummer who have given us stunning releases over the year on their own label, AD93 and Going Good. ‘Read My Lips’ strikes the perfect balance of old-school warehouse acid and early-morning Berlin dance floors.

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20 Years Of Phonica

PREMIERE: Paramida - E-Talking - Read My Lips [ Phonica Records ]

Tracklist:

01. Phoenix Jig - Woodsmoke, Pantunes Music
02. DJs Friend - Tequila Mockingbird, Slipper When Wet
03. Bodyshaper - O.D.D., Mulatto Records
04. Stress Groove - California Life, Domo Recordings
05. Naghachian - Flash, Frankfurt Beat Productions
06. Intonation - Dirty Tune (In Da House Mix), Braintist Records
07. Boxcar - People Get High (Boxcar Moonlight Dub), Pulse-8 Records
08. La Cienda Honduras - Vi Hoppas Pa Det Basta, Gungeligung
09. Grooveminister - Verdient (B-Flat’s Deep Stompin’), BMG Ariola
10. Random Factor - Ricochet, 20:20 Vision
11. Kasjmir - Evil Dread, Spiritual Records 
12. Ulysses - Morrohdinger, Plastic city Suburbia
13. DRC & Chris Demetras - Work It Out (DJ Rico Remix), IMIX
14. Intonation - Dirty Tune, Braintist Records
15. Discode - Another Night, the Stars and Me.., Stereophonic Elefant Dance Recordings
16. Naghachian - Magic Keys, Frankfurt Beat Productions
17. Superstars Of Rock - Up All Night (Salt City Vocal Mix), Stress Records
18. Attaboy - In Too Deep, Toco Records
19. Jay Ray - Daylight, MFS
20. Air Kraft Vision - Automatic Lover (Zappa Version), Eletrik
21. Felix Rennefeld - Game Over, Funkhaus Records
22. Whizz - My Love Reaches So High (Dub Mix), Zest
23. The 3 Stoneheads - Distant Planet (Supersleuth In the Mix), Eureka Records

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