Paradox is International music producer and breakbeat icon Dev Paradox. His career started back in 1989 when 'Mixrace' was formed with partner DJ Trax. The first professional recording by Mixrace was in 1990 and was produced by the Plastic Jam (of Labello Blanco).
After brief relations with Surburban Base and Strictly Underground Records the first Mixrace 12" surfaced in 1991 on the early Moving Shadow Records Label. Both producers only 17 at the time released the... Read more
Paradox is International music producer and breakbeat icon Dev Paradox. His career started back in 1989 when 'Mixrace' was formed with partner DJ Trax. The first professional recording by Mixrace was in 1990 and was produced by the Plastic Jam (of Labello Blanco).
After brief relations with Surburban Base and Strictly Underground Records the first Mixrace 12" surfaced in 1991 on the early Moving Shadow Records Label. Both producers only 17 at the time released the early Mixrace Hardcore classic 'Too Bad for Ya/The Future is Before Your Eyes' (SHADOW 018).
Four more releases followed on the Moving Shadow label and in 1995 Dev and Trax set up their own Stronghold, Mobhanded and Offset Recordings labels.
New artist guises surfaced in 1996 in the forms of 'Alaska' and 'Paradox'. Dev wanted to show his diversity by creating two different genre's of drumfunk with Alaska being the ambient monkier of the two, and Paradox exploring the drum patterns of 1970's funk.
As Trax started to program breakbeat at different tempo's, Paradox's sound took off in another direction with a string of releases on Renegade Hardware, Certificate 18 and Reinforced Records.
Eight years on and Dev has now recorded for over an amazing 40 record labels including Goldie's Metalheadz, 4-Hero's Reinforced Records, LTJ Bukem's Good Looking, Certificate 18, Hospital, Partisan, Dylan's Freak Recordings, Renegade Hardware, Timeless, Total Science's CIA, Blame's 720 Degrees, Nexus, Danny Break's Droppin Science, Dylan's Freak Recordings, Subject 13's Vibez Recordings, Twisted Funk, Toshiba-EMI, Ninebar, Sonica, 2000 Black, Sheebeen, Form-3, Holland's Rush Hour Records, New York's Offshore Recordings, and Italy's Archive Records.
Paradox also runs his own 3 records labels Outsider, Esoteric and Paradox Music alongside the heavy release schedules for other worldwide labels.
In the studio music collaborations have included artists such as Sweden's prolific Seba, Dylan, DJ Nucleus, EZ Rollers, Flytronix, Subject 13, Volcov and legendary Jazz Musicians Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock, rocker Iggy Pop and Funk legends Weather Report.
Paradox remixing duties include 4-Hero for Talkin Loud/Mercury, Yasushi Ide for Warner Brothers, Boom Boom Satelites for Sony/Epic, LTJ Bukem and Makoto for Good Looking, Justice, James Hardway, NXS, Blue, Trax for Lacerba, Konami Entertainment, Sony Playstation and Japanese Manga Cartoon Company Marine Entertainment/Avex inc.
Dev Paradox has released two albums on major label Sony Music Japan throughout his career, and 2004 also saw Dev release not one but TWO albums on Vibez Recordings and Reinforced Records respectively.
Paradox has exclusive endorsement deals with Firetrap Clothing, Acupuncture footwear and Bloc Eyewear.
Dev Paradox is also without doubt a live touring machine outside the studio. Paradox has performed over 100 overseas live performances. Every month of the year you can catch Paradox's one-man-band live show truely worldwide.
Paradox has visited all corners of the globe and has headlined live shows in East, West Coast and mid-west America, Japan, Asia and literally all over Europe from London to the outer regions of Russia and Iceland.
Paradox also performed live in the BBC studio's for the BBC's digital radio service 1Xtra, a first for a Drum and Bass artist on National UK radio.
2005 is Dev's busiest year to date. Apart from re-visiting all corners of the globe Paradox has been invited to remix non other than Jazz legend HERBIE HANCOCK. A true representation of todays funk technicians from the past, the present and the future.
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