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System Wide - Paradox Shift

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Release Date: 03/10/2025


Label: Paperfunk Recordings


Catalog Number: PPRFNK0111



That night, the city stood like an unfinished mechanism: the clock hands moved, but time did not. Two sound-network technicians, known at the console as System Wide, noticed a strange kind of glitch: signals arrived before they were sent. As if the echo were outrunning the voice.



To measure the shift, they sent a low impulse through the cables—dry as the snap of a breaker. The music didn’t “kick in,” but the sidewalks felt for a common beat: in the metro, footsteps began to snake; the traffic lights blinked like a metronome; and a rollerblader along the embankment carved arcs between passersby. A couple at a kiosk, mid-sentence, turned at the same moment—a precise pivot at the corner, as if a choreographer had pinned a cue in the air. No flash mob—just the city starting to dance by itself: couriers with short glides at crosswalks, children with fine footwork by the shop windows, the elderly tracing clear geometry with their hands. At times the silence tightened like an anti-drop, and the whole intersection froze on the “and-one,” only to flare a moment later into a new figure.



By dawn, people’s knees hummed pleasantly, and it was easier to meet each other’s eyes. System Wide wrote in the log: “Shift accepted. The world didn’t speed up—it found a count.” That’s how System Wide’s release Paradox Shift on Paperfunk Recordings was born: not an escape from the system, but a live reflash of it. Every time the city grows tight again, they send a short impulse—and reality takes half a step to the side, just enough for there to be room to dance again.



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