Italo

At just 22 years old and fresh off the back of a US tour, where he played in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, and New Orleans, REES is making waves far from his hometown of Middlesbrough. Producing and playing his own refined style of feel-good disco, electro, house, and italo, the upstart found his calling in the North East's clubs - with a local event inspiring him to pursue music.

For a person who once referred to herself as “Berlin’s most hated”, Paramida seems to be getting on just fine. As head honcho at the consistently excellent Love on the Rocks label, and as a selector with impeccable taste that persists in making people grin like happy fools on dancefloors the world over, she has crafted a musical identity that resolutely flips off the all-too-often self-absorbed and overbearingly “serious” dance music landscape.