Paradox (artist)
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| Birth name | Dev Pandya |
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| Born | 17 August |
| Genres | Drum and bass, drumfunk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician and producer |
| Labels | Paradox Music, Outsider, Esoteric, Secret Operations |
| Website | www.paradoxmusic.com |
Paradox is the pseudonym of Dev Pandya, a British producer.
Pandya was born in 1970s in England. In recent years he has championed a new subgenre of drum and bass known as drumfunk, which focuses on either finding obscure breakbeats or re-sampling much used drum-and-bass breakbeats from their original source and transforming them into constantly shifting drum patterns, noticeably different from traditional drum and bass.
He also records a duo with producer Nucleus. He also has regularly collaborated with artist Seba.
He also records under the pseudonym Alaska. From 1994 to 1996, Pandya went by the alias Brown in collaboration with Rhymeside (Scott Williams), DJ Trax (David Davies) and Dangerman, which is another alias from Davies. Under the artist name of DMR Pandya released tracks as Paradox & DMR on the label Certificate 18 in 1998.
Pandya runs four record labels: Paradox Music, Esoteric, Outsider, and Arctic Music. He also ran the labels Mob Handed, Stronghold Records and Offset Recordings together with Davies from 1994 to 1997. Those labels are inactive, which means that there are no more records released on them.
Paradox released his first full-length album Musician as Outsider in 2000 on Reinforced Records as single artist. Both the CD and LP releases have ten tracks on them, but the CD version had a bonus CD with live PA-footage from Paradox's 2000 tour. There was a special Japan version of the CD, released by Sony Japan, which featured changed patterns, different run times and the bonus-track "The Unspoken Divide".
In 2002 the second Paradox album, again on Reinforced Records came out, called What You Don't Know. The LP version features ten tracks and the double CD release has 12 tracks on CD 1 and video footage from the 2002 live tour on CDVD (CD 2).
In 2004, the album The Esoteric Funk by Nucleus & Paradox was released on Reinforced Records. Nucleus' real name is Dave Sims. Sims and Pandya had released a CD album before in 1997 which is called Noise & Paradox – Transmograpfication. At that time Simms went by the name "Noise".
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