Paradox

The reluctance of Dev Pandya to adhere to accepted drum’n’bass programming and standards within his Paradox project has produced him an extremely influential figure inside the motion. Over ten years since he initial stepped in to the studio room with DJ Trax as Mixrace and provided the pairs’ debut one for Moving Darkness, THE NEAR FUTURE Is Before Your Eye, Pandya’s sound continues to be seen as a an uncompromising method of percussion. Having caused several luminaries including 720, Partisan, Archive, Certificate 18, Timeless, and Renegade Equipment under a number of monikers, he ultimately resolved his Paradox task at 4 Heroes’ well-respected Reinforced imprint in the past due ’90s, collapsing beats with Nucleus in “This Part of Forever” ” prior to going single. His debut full-length as Paradox surfaced simply over a yr later on, The Musician as Outsider Encouragement took drum encoding to the limits using the Jimmy Castor referencing “Drum & Run after,” as well as the windswept atmospheres of “Watchful Attention,” both normal of an recording which noticed complete percussion deconstructed by shards of space, melodic futurism with an excellent militancy. His sophomore recording for the label, EVERYTHING YOU Don’t Know, premiered in the summertime of 2002, confidently twisting midtempo funk with full-strength percussive drum’n’bass – the beats once again providing the spirit power – an eerily skeletal declaration which dissected the primary components of drum’n’bass. Furthermore to his just work at Reinforced, he continues to be mostly of the performers to record materials on both edges of drum’n’bass’ unspoken separate, dealing with LTJ Bukem’s BEAUTIFUL imprint under his Alaska pseudonym. His debut LP beneath the moniker noticed release in the first weeks of 1999 for Subject matter 13’s Vibez imprint, offering a stability between this quality intricacy from the defeat programming by using warm key noises and huge atmospheres. A practiced live performer, he 1st took his studio room out on the street in 2000, and offers since toured European countries, THE UNITED STATES, and Japan.