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Paramida may have a reputation as a divisive character, but no matter what your take on the artist who once jokingly referred to herself as 'Berlin's Most Hated', one thing is almost always agreed upon; Paramida is a superlative DJ. Her label, Love On The Rocks, reflects her far-reaching, unpredictable DJ sets, delivering often winningly odd, refreshingly charistmatic club music that Paramida herself may have bracketed as 'house', but, reflecting her collection, garner influence from the dustiest corners of outsider dance culture across genres, tempos and continents.Having elected to leave Berlin for a number of years, Paramida is now back...

“Everything, everywhere, at the same time”; This is how Paul Woolford describes his early days immersed in club culture in the North of England, a “subconscious training” for the decades of creativity - DJing, producing and experimentation - that then followed. From the clubbing public’s perspective, Woolford’s career has been defined by a series of transcendent club records rinsed across scenes. There was, of course, Erotic Discourse, a rubbery, psychedelic banger that began as an experiment and proved so successful that Woolford once spent a night dashing across Fabric, lending a white label to different DJs to play out. When...

As half of Simian Mobile Disco, and as a solo producer, Jas Shaw has been present, correct and endlessly experimental in electronic music for a span of decades. From the absolute festival-rocking era of tracks like ‘It’s The Beat’, ‘Hustler’, ‘Cruel Intentions’, et al, to his recent collaborations with Gold Panda under the moniker of Selling, Shaw has guided his sound, studio and creative partnerships down endless avenues of interest, informed by the progressive history of house, techno, psychedelia and minimalism.SMD arguably hit a career high with 2017’s hugely creative ‘Murmurations’, the duo’s collaboration with London’s all-female Deep Throat Choir,...

The tracks, attitude and most notably, the voice of Kittin (nee, Miss Kittin) were synonymous with the electroclash era; glamorous, hedonistic and operating with tongue firmly-in-cheek, it remains one of the most divisive periods in dance music's fluctuating history, but few could deny it's strength of personality. And of all those personalities, few, if any, have had the longevity of Caroline Herve.Returning without the prefix in 2018 to deliver the unexpectedly soothing 'Cosmos' on stellar US label Dark Entries, Kittin continues to operate as one of the most distinctive Djs on the European circuit, with tastes that shoot fruitfully through...