Indira Paganotto Launches ARTCORE’s First VA – ‘Face To Face Miami Week 2024’

DJ, producer and label head, Indira Paganotto will release ‘Face To Face Miami Week 2024’ on March 21st via her ARTCORE label. The ten-track album features an alchemic brew of hard dance styles concocted by a stellar cast of talent. In 2022, Indira launched her forward thinking imprint to further establish her brand of pulsing, high-intensity techno and to celebrate those artists who share her musical philosophy. After 7 releases, she looks to further make good on that promise with her label’s first VA.

BEC has reached the top of her game in a short time, after being head hunted by Pan-Pot, following plays at Burning Man, Tobacco Dock and The Warehouse Project. She is a ‘self confessed’ studio geek and wastes no time in setting the pace with opening track ‘Loca’. She constructs an Arabic-infused soundscape by juxtaposing enchanting vocal and flute melodies with rotating techno percussion. 

Luca Agnelli and Rian Wood collaborate for ‘Kiss Like This’ which for all its glossy vocal retains a visceral rawness amongst flashes of synth and unrestrained bass. Both hailing from Italy, Rian has drawn his influences from Hard Rave, Old School and Gabber. Luca is the founder of his Eturia Beat label since 2010 but has been featured on many more including NineTimesNine, Blackworks and Soma.

The appropriately titled ‘Lose Control’ by emerging new alias TEUTON does exactly that harnessed by the Digital Mindz original he applies his own take on the hardstyle number. A man behind a mask, mysterious in his identity, he started his music career over 30 years ago in the hardcore and goa trance scene.

Returning ARTCORE producer CHRS’ ‘Skeptical’ and brand-new artist PARKERSTRANGE with their track ‘123’ traverse a rave-psy-techno tightrope melding elements of each genre together in a cauldron of caustic electronica. Rich in style, and bold in its application of samples and atmospherics. The whole VA is intelligently executed, and this couldn’t achieved without artists like Italian multi-instrumentalist Giorgia Angiuli whose track ‘Ego Is The Enemy’ glides into life ascending through a melodic mist of fluttering dance motifs and monastic ambience. Giorgia is a live artist, and a classically trained musician who’s performed at Timewarp and Ultra.

Ecuadorian artist Lara Klart continues this vein of haunting but beguiling musicality on ‘Aleluya’ employing Miriea Clua on violin to instil a chordophone elegance atop a driving, deep techno pattern. 

Joining forces on ‘Power Of Silence’ Rhygar and Stëh collaborate for the first time, they provide a refreshing range of techno aesthetics. Including Zeshin’s ‘Sushy Party’, a new psy-trance alias by Mattia Trani, who’s sound is inspired by Japanese 00’s gaming. His track is fuelled by a giddy, anime like charm that stems from the sugar-coated vocals which dance across waves of juddering drums and cooling synths. 

The curtain closer, Joel Bird’s ‘Existentialism’ warps and surges with a celestial resonance amid a fusion of stomping claps a ceaseless percussion the track gently evanesces and fades into a calming ether. Joel is a young 20-year-old producer who’s work has been supported by KI/KI and Theo Nasa, this single marks his first release.

All tracks on the latest ARTCORE VA will be available on the 21st March.

04 CHRS - Skeptical (Extended Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

In 2022, Indira Paganotto established ARTCORE with a clear vision in mind. The primary aim behind creating this label was to acknowledge and elevate the unique sound associated with Indira, which, until then, had not found a suitable representation in any existing label. It's widely recognized that this distinctive sound has been gaining rapid popularity and is finally receiving the recognition it rightfully deserves.

However, it's essential to note that ARTCORE will not be confined to a single genre. Instead, the emphasis will be on preserving authenticity and ensuring high-quality musical output. The label will serve as a platform that celebrates artistic expression, relevance, and musical heritage. Also, ARTCORE enables the opportunity for artists to be mentored directly by Indira is at the core of ARTCORE.

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CHRS started out DJ’ing at the young age of 15, in his home country of Sicily. His passion for electronic music started young and he started to teach himself how to mix in his later teenage years. In 2023 he began a Sound Engineering course at Tor Vergata University in Rome, whilst working in recording studios in his spare time to become proficient in mastering and mixing.
With the knowledge and experience he gained in a short time, he became a resident and label manager for the PHASE 2 project in Sicily, held at Industrie and Afrobar in Catania, alongside now holding a Batchelors Degree in sound engineering, he a perfect example of a young producer who has many talents in all areas of the music industry.
With releases on labels including Carbone Records, Scuderia, Gomboc, Eturia Beat and Phase 2 since 2017, his first notable release that created a buzz around his name was ‘Depth Coefficient Acid’ in February 2022 on Scuderia Records. The track has amassed over half a million streams online. His productions have been supported by many artists playing Awakenings, Monegros, Verknipt and Tomorrowland.
He followed the success on the same label, with ‘Hard Changes’ in November 2023 with a limited run of vinyl, and in January 2024 his ‘Into The Darkness’ EP was his debut on ARTCORE Records, a release that solidified the bond with the labels founder Indira Paganotto. This led to two more singles in 2024 with ‘Skeptical’ featured on their Face To Face Miami Week VA, and the most recent ‘Mental Groovy’ on ARTCORE’s OffSonar VA.
CHRS has also played sets for Possession, Teletech, Blackworks, Glitch Festival, Tresor and ARTCORE’s OffSonar event in Barcelona, as well as his debut at Amnesia Ibiza for Joseph Capriati's Metamorphosis party.
His music is described as energetic, featuring hard techno with influences of psy- trance, hardstyle, groovy touches, and breakbeat. He also incorporates elements of drum and bass and '90s music into his tracks, a genre that he’s always been passionate about.

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04 CHRS - Skeptical (Extended Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

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