written and produced by Diis Paradiis (aka Rikslyd)
released on Tsunami Addiction, February 2011


Obsexed

"Break the beats down to a very simple sound"

written and produced by Diis Paradiis (aka Rikslyd)

Bam Bom

Amisexy

written and produced by Diis Paradiis (aka Rikslyd)
released on the compilation Grab Bag #2 by deBonton 2010

Andersson

This track was originally created for the Minna Palmqvist 2014 show at Stockholm Fashion Week, take a look here https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=821531257879329 The manifest (text) is written by the designer herself and Lisa Carlsson. Music and vocals by Rikslyd.

RIKSLYD - Manifest

'Start believing heaven is a place in your mind.'

Words and melody by Diis Paradiis
(breathing sample in this version can be recognized from Kraftwerk's Tour De France intro)

Exhale

Hot Boys (Zilla Remix)

written and produced by Diis Paradiis (aka Rikslyd)
released on Tsunami Addiction, September 2012


Hot Boys

Track from the Eleven Paris campaign http://www.vogue.fr/video/mode/videos/les-twins-et-jena-goldsack-nouvelles-egeries-deleven-paris-en-video/18463

Hot Boys (2015 Edit)

written and produced by Diis Paradiis (aka Rikslyd)
released on Tsunami Addiction, September 2012

lyrics:
when the heart is uncertain
it's so hard to be at ease
with the troubles laying ahead
u know all i want is peace
but my head keeps on feeding
me with doubts
and it freezes
my heart into a stone
the beats they feel like drums
that make me march far away from home
away from places i belong to
and people with whomi've grown
and a song is all i cling to
it is all i can control
funny how i get less adult
the more i have grown
the heart
the heart
the heart
the heart
my body is a temple
and I'm filling it with vanity
passionate and destructive
i drive myself insane
when all there is in life to live is love
again and again
when all there is in life to live is love
take a breath - take ten
the heart
the heart
the heart
the heart
the fear of the failure backfires me to level one
i may me seem like someone solid
but on the inside i am torn
and my heart kicking harder
like the beating of a drum
makes me think I should stay static
to hide from what I will become
the hard
the hard
the hard
the hard


The Heart

The Are and Be Song

Techno Club

written and produced by Diis Paradiis (aka Rikslyd)
released on Tsunami Addiction, September 2012

Oslo

6th track from the album Ecotone (2012 / Tsunami Addiction). Also to be found at Acid Arab's compilation (nov. 2013 / Versatile Records). Intro sampled from Carole Samaha's Sma'ani. 

Oriented

All in Love

Long Gone

You're Right

written and produced by Diis Paradiis (aka Rikslyd)

Horizon

Twelve Times

Norwegian Rikslyd is a solo project by Diis Paradiis. 

Rikslyd is a portmanteau, a combination of the words Nationwide (riks) and Sound (lyd), and the self invented genre "Champagne Electro" explains well the sound universe of minimal pop tracks, awkward sexiness, electronic ambient vibes and parfois clever lyrics.

The fashion world has particularly shown appreciation for the style; like Stella McCartney, Quentin Veron, Devastee, Eric Bompard, Andrea Crews, Collette, Minna Palmqvist and Caroline Daily to mention some. 

Also having DJ'ed under the name Diis Paradiis in the Paris nightlife for many years, she is now more living on a remote location, listening to jazz by the lake.

Hopefully some new music will surface there!

About her 2nd album, Ecotone in 2012: the word ecotone is coined from eco(logy) - plus tone, from the Greek tonos or tension – in other words, a place where ecologies are in tension. An ecotone is a transition area between two biomes but different patches of the landscape, such as forest and grassland; and describes with these words the musical transitions present in this album.

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