Living 5,000 miles away from your creative brethren will have you trying to open portals. After being deported from Sweden and moving to Bangkok in 2015, Drain Gang’s Thaiboy Digital has leaned harder into the cult rap crew’s love for rave electronics than any other member, chasing highs in lucid dreams to compensate for sporadic meetups with the boys. Since 2020’s My Fantasy World , DJ Billybool has been his conceptual side project where he imagines himself touring Andromeda as the planet’s No. 1 DJ, culminating in 2025’s DYR, a fever dream of Swedish-language happy hardcore. On Paradise , he goes all-in on becoming the ultimate clubland avatar. For Paradise and DYR , Thaiboy enlisted production collective swedm® , whose registered name first caused a stir last year when they littered the credits of Skrillex ’s F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3 .…