Since he released his superb debut EP, Don’t Get Me Wrong (Second Circle/Music From Memory, 2017), Chris Kuhlen—the producer, DJ, live performer and visual artist who goes by the alias of Dazion—has discovered unheard of territory for our ears.

His productions reveal his passion for drum machines, analogue synthesizers, worn-out guitar pedals and special effects. Although Dazion sounds like the future, he also hides a certain nostalgia that takes us back to past times, making it difficult to pigeonhole his retro-futurist style and his delightful vision of dance music.

At Paraíso, Dazion will present a peculiar tribal house live show, a semi-improvised jam, with mysterious synthesizer sounds, marked percussions and melodies aimed at setting the dancefloor on fire.

Born out of the collaboration between Barcelona producers BeGun and Ocellot, AKKAN bring together the echoes of ancestral landscapes that open a new door into the wild.

AKKAN introduced themselves to the world in 2018 with three EPs: BANANAT and KAI (La Belle Records) and REGALIU (Foehn Records), works that reflect their interest in dancefloor-oriented organic electronica, a concern that’s also evident in what will be their first full-length album scheduled for the spring of 2020: jungle sounds, tribal percussions, exotic vocals and folk instruments that flow in a stimulating and highly contagious array of beats.

We don’t know if their live set involves spells or black magic, but they’ve got us hypnotized. Dare to listen to their psychedelic melodies and ethnic rhythms: they promise to take you on a journey through the extraordinary, the ancestral and the contemporary.

Critics have no doubt about it. FKA twigs tops the list of best albums of 2019. And it’s not the first time, she already did it in 2014 with LP1 (Young Turks). Since she released her videoclip “Cellophane” in April—her first new release in three years—, you could sense a spectacular album was on its way. With MAGDALENE (Young Turks, 2019), she has surpassed expectations.

FKA twigs is a creator without limits: vocalist, choreographer, composer and director. Her voice has found the perfect balance between the celestial and futurism, and her magnetic personality impregnates the multimedia and theatrical experience brought about by seeing her, through shows and videoclips that intertwine and blur the lines of classicism and avant-garde.

No wonder that names like Skrillex, Jack Antonoff, Nicolas Jaar, Benny Blanco, Koreless or Cashmere Cat have felt an urge to be included in the credits of her latest album, and that the sophisticated imagery FKA twigs has been developing since 2012 has placed her at the forefront of new musical stars.

Paraíso will be the first date in Spain on her MAGDALENE tour: a show promising to be historic in which we’ll be able to enjoy to the fullest an artist who’s making her mark on this decade.

Chicago and New York, two cities that have moulded an unusual star. One saw her grow and the other welcomes her when she’s away from the booths, so it’s no wonder that both metropolises inspire a sound that helps Honey Dijon create a meeting point with which we’ll explain present-day electronica to our grandchildren.

Honey Dijon has been present at many of the critical moments in the evolution of dance music, including the emergence of house culture in Chicago and its diversification in New York. To many, her ascension into the realm of electronica is already obvious, although her feet remain anchored in underground.

Anyone who has witnessed her wrist play can attest to this: Honey Dijon gets out hand, holding us to the dancefloor and shaking us from head to toe. She’s the epitome of frenzy, a box of always pleasant surprises and one of the best DJs on the current scene. So relax and enjoy: you’ll have a great time with Honey.

Mafalda’s universe traverses luminous and colourful landscapes, full of funk and disco rhythms. It’s a timeless journey whose route doesn’t lead us to any particular epoch, but to envision on the horizon a message of peace, love, unity and hope.

Originally from Oporto, Mafalda has brought a piece of sun to London. She fell in love with UK club culture and, today, everyone who bumps into her surrenders to her tropical jazz, soul and R&B sets. This happened to Sam Shepherd, better known as Floating Points, and now the two are co-founders of the revered Melodies International label. Next on Mafalda’s list is you: don’t resist. She is expecting you at Paraíso 2020.

It was about time Mura Masa set foot on Madrid soil. For the first time, the Brit brings to the city the rhythms that have positioned him as one of the great producers to follow, and the wait will be rewarded: a new album in his hands, R.Y.C (Polydor Records, 2020).

At only 23 years old, Mura Masa announces a new direction, with more focus on a live band format, which will materialize on this new LP. In spite of his youth, Alex Crossan’s trajectory comes from far away. When he was 17, he uploaded his first mixes and tracks onto SoundCloud and two years later, he launched his debut EP Someday Somewhere (Anchor Point, 2015) with which he backed himself to push the frontiers of pop with R&B, electronica and hip hop. The fruit of all this is his Grammy Award and the millions of online plays he accumulates.

It should come as no surprise that the new stars of music are signing up to collaborate with Mura Masa: A$AP Rocky, Charli XCX, Clairo, Octavian and Nao, among others, because the future is yet to come and Mura Masa already inhabits it. Let yourself be caressed at Paraíso by his gentle beats, the sound of tomorrow awaits you on the dancefloor.

Robert O’Bryant could be chosen to bring back the meaning of dance music. House and hip hop, genres descending from funk and disco, couldn’t be explained separately for this artist.

In the early 2000s, he mixed and produced for hip hop legends Slum Village and maintained a deep connection with the local Detroit scene. Around 2010 all that attention shifted to the production of electronica in order to illuminate dance floors with a kaleidoscopic sound that reveals the rich heritage of this music, the futurism of the Detronian sound palette and the groove of house itself.

Waajeed is the alias under which O’Bryant explores dance music. Using elements of R&B or soul, he’s restored faith to many with songs like “Get Live”, “Shango” or the hypnotic EP Hocus Pocus (Deviation, 2019). When Waajeed takes the stage, feet break loose, hips start moving and heads tussle. Put on your most comfortable shoes, you won’t be able to stop dancing.

In the same way that it’s possible to alter consciousness through meditation, music can also be part of that puzzle. And that’s where Jon Hopkins places his compositions, where music flows uninhibitedly.

Hopkins transcends genres, fuses the coldness of the digital with warm bucolic textures and illuminates the dark paths of electronica. A lengthy discography, several soundtracks, critics’ approval and fans’ astonishment outline the profile of a very talented producer with more pages than any other in the history of the current British music scene.

His latest album, Singularity, flows from robust techno to choral music, from piano to ambient, and from your ears to your very depths. His only live show in Spain during 2020 already has a date and purpose: embarking you on a journey as emotional as capable of deliberately altering your perception of reality.

Five years ago, Bruno Boumendil’s curiosity drew him onto a train with a destination unknown to him. His travelling companions were a group of French artists who involuntarily resurrected the French house scene. Now based in London, Bruno is Folamour and the stand-out student of this new awakening of French electronica.

Folamour is passionate about music, but not just dance music. He quickly moves from a brilliant palette of Brazilian sounds to songs by ABBA or George Michael. And, of course, things inevitably happen: the temperature of the dancefloor rises.

Folamour’s gentle edits are assaulting the European club scene and it’s not hard to see why. His jazz, funk and world music sets directly attack your hips and your heart. Folamour doesn’t take no for an answer; you’re going to have to accept this dance.

Christian Löffler is a self-taught virtuoso with an unrivalled sensitivity. In the late 90s, whilst still a teenager, he had to call upon his ingenuity to learn how to produce and now he can boast about being one of the subtlest techno producers.

The Baltic Sea landscapes shaped the character and sound of this northern German artist. This might explain his approach to electronica from an autobiographical and melancholic perspective. His compositions brim with deep nostalgia while his percussive bases guide emotive melodies and vocal loops into the uninhabited territories of electronica, as in his latest album, Graal (Prologue) (Ki Records, 2019), where he reflects those dark wrappings and introspective backgrounds that are now his trademark.

It’s very likely we’ll never hear a cheerful Christian Löffler song. We’re not the ones saying it; he has said it himself. What we’re sure of is that his will be one of the most intimate live shows at Paraíso, as he’s coming ready to aim at the centre of your heart.