E-Talking crashes onto Love On The Rocks with a 4-track EP that's weirder, faster and harder than anything Paramida's ever-evolving imprint has put out to date; pushing the label into new territory that's simultaneously unexpected and unmistakably true-to-form.


The Berlin-via-London-based French producer, one half of the duo & collective Nummer, released his studio debut on AD93 in 2018 and his first album on Going Good in 2021, with productions that are dense, intricate and intoxicating, overflowing with ideas and effortless finesse, qualities on display all over this EP in otherworldly abundance.

E
-
Talking crashes onto Love On The Rocks with a
4
-
track EP that’s weirder, faster and harder than anything Paramida’s
ever
-
evolving imprint has put out to date; pushing the label into new territory that’s both undeniably fresh and
unmistakably true
-
to
-
form.
The Berlin
-
via
-
London
-
based French producer,
one half of the duo & collective Nummer, released his studio debut on
AD93 in 2018 and his first album on Going Good in 2021, with
productions that are both dense and intricate, overflowing
with ideas in a way that grabs your attention from the first note
and never lets go.
‘The Cosmic Egg’ refers to the (now
-
established) understanding of our ever
-
expanding universe; extrapolated
backwards in time, it implies a finite starting
-
time and a small starting
-
place, from which the entire cosmos
metaphorically ha
tched. Not unlike the journey of this EP, which Paramida and Alex Kassian have been incubating,
along with a close friendship with its’ hotly
-
tipped French producer, since early lockdown days.
The opening track,
“Pads
&
Frogs”
finds E
-
Talking
presumably up to his eyeballs in a psychedelic rainforest, awash with
swirling pads, lush percussion and more than a few non
-
human friends. It could very easily be the soundtrack to the
hatching of the cosmos, and it certainly serves that function here, g
iving way to the EP’s first big leap into new territory
with
“Rise Up”
, turning up the pace considerably into the 140s and wasting no time in serving up some seriously
pounding cosmic techno, LOTR
-
style, with some unexpected twists and turns halfway throug
h. It’s all in the switches and
details here.
“Life Begins Now”
doesn’t let up the pace while proceeding with more of a house sensibility, with layers of percussion
and grooves building off each other to a huge drop, which is really just teasing a final t
wist that sends this one fully into
intricate, exquisite orbit, while
“Neidan”
brings us slowly back to Earth and into the lower 130 regions for another
slamming house workout with all the hallmarks of a future LOTR classic: the warmth of the sun, cosmic e
nergy to infinity
and the promise of good times ahead.
Previously, the universe was thought of as eternally old, with no start and no growth.
Boring.
This EP exemplifies just
how wrong that is: an adrenaline
-
fuelled salute to the constant creative
expansion of the universe, and all the weird
beings who inhabit it.