There's no stopping globe-trotting PSYMAMA Indira Paganotto at present. With her ARTCORE event series drawing sell-out crowds across Europe, fans of her atomic blend of psy trance and techno - to which she lovingly refers to as herWARRIORS - have been treated to a myriad of special releases over the last 12 months. And after her debut collaboration with Joseph Capriati, Indira announces the forthcoming 'ARTCORE OFFSónar 2024 Vol.1' this June, making the 2nd on the label since its inception. 

Vol.1 drops on the 27th June, with ten brand new tracks, and nine brand new artists debuting on ARTCORE. It boasts a truly eclectic mix of vocal samples set to a mouth-watering collection of electronic styles. 

Flying hot out of the traps for the LP opener is Buenos Aires born, Aussie-based Scifo with 'Dias De Fiesta' an emotionally charged, psy-imbued delight. The young SCIFO shrewdly chops a famous vocal to suit rapid-fire drumming while retaining the Latin beauty of its trance ancestor. Chasing the euphoric trance spirit, Slovakia's Samuel Andrášik - whose techno offerings are a regular in sets played by Charlotte De Witte, Indira Paganotto and KI/KI - uses powerful accelerating tempos with tense, foreboding synths on 'Return to Zero' to usher ominous, ghostly choir-like chanting before swiftly returning to the sonic pallet used at the beginning. 

The Hamburg pairing of ANDATA up the ante with 'Bianca Rambo' which starts amidst a whirring of breezy bleepy, clicks and sultry vocals only to then switch lanes altogether to introduce a thrashing, rock-guitar led breakdown. As the VA approaches the halfway mark, Italians Gray Cosmo instil a cool wave of progressive nuance subtlety steering the VA away from the psy-spliced-techno chaos it had garnered early on by way of mystical phonics and corrugated, cosmic musicality. The Middle Eastern inspiration continues with Afterparty in Paradise label head, Chris Morgan. On 'Serenum', the Swiss national opens the beat with an enthralling clash of vocals and gentle strumming sitar lines before introducing a galloping, pulsing bass. 

Emerging Belgian starlet, Marhu delivers yet another vocal-heavy, crisply produced, tempo focused gem with 'Bansuri', admixing delightful pan-pipe overtones with motorised percussion for maximum red-line impact. Roni Martinez provides the hardest cut on the VA with the unrelenting 'Desertica'. It's intense, squat-party like vigour brazenly trounces the whispering, goose-bump inducing lyrics that creep between its pneumatic drum rolls. The stirring, chest-beating inception of Arytmia's 'Fortress' will evoke audio imagery of sci-fi anti-heroes such as Darth Vader or Baron Harkonnen. 

The vivacious melody is underpinned by a bleak, darkly cosmos of droning pads and battle-ready percussion. FORBIDDEN's 'Keep The Faith' swiftly roars into existence, like much of the Serbian's work, by way of a fierce, bass driven melody. As the head of PHASE-2 records, and the only artist on this VA to have released on the label before, Italian producer CHRS is infamous for his brand of jarring but ultimately satisfying techno. The Italian's contribution to the VA titled 'Mental Groovy', encircles the ethos of ARTCORE sublimely. Its hyperactive melody is ignited by piercing sirens, tidal like drum work and harsh wintery synth patterns which sandwich an outrageous vocal sample.

10 CHRS - Mental Groovy (Extended Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

CHRS is a resident artist of ARTCORE Records, the label founded by Indira Paganotto. He has already played at the ARTCORE showcases in Rome and Barcelona in 2024 and is currently on a world tour. His productions and DJ sets are energetic and emotional, 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.

In 2024, CHRS released his first vinyl, "Hard Change," on Scuderia Records, which sold out quickly. His EP "In the Darkness" on ARTCORE Records solidified his bond with Indira Paganotto. April 2024 saw the announcement of his first world tour with ARTCORE, including a debut at Amnesia Ibiza for Joseph Capriati's Metamorphosis party.

CHRS is also the resident DJ and label manager for the PHASE 2 project in Sicily, held at Industrie and Afrobar in Catania. His notable tracks, including "Depth Coefficient Acid," "Hard Changes," and "In the Darkness," have been played at major festivals like Tomorrowland, Awakenings, and Verknipt, earning support from top artists in the industry.

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Motherfuckerz

Race Against Time

Sicilian Ravers

01. Iketa - Desert
02. Umbraid - Anxiolytic [Carcères Records]
03. Skoden - Distruption [INSANE INDUSTRY]
04. Tim Tama - Wave Of Nostalgia [ARTS]
05. CHRS - Hoch Fliegen [INSANE INDUSTRY]
06. GUS - A Sailor's Loneliness [HEART'S WHISPERS]
07. Fog'Cult - Pandemia Caos [trau-ma]
08. Radio Slave - Live My Life [Rekids]
09. Fangarm - Consciousness [trau-ma]
10. Hidden Culture - Panacea [trau-ma]
11. Florian Meindl - Frame of Mind [FLASH Recordings]

REC160 - Circle Mix

Indira Paganotto is an unstoppable force in the music industry right now. After a killer 8-week summer residency at Amnesia for Metamorfosi, with a weekly line up curated by Indira, she took ARTCORE around the world, as the label expands at a rapid rate with a global tour spanning into the first part of 2025.
  
Whilst ARTCORE welcome back artists on the VA who have already released on the label including CHRS, AD7USTMENT and TEUTON. But with another 7 artists making their ARTCORE debut, there is a lot of exciting talent Indira wants to create awareness for, young Colombian Noise Mafia, Spanish collaborators Victor Magan and Franklin Dam, Mariana Revilla from Mexico City known for her acid techno sets and French Teletech favourite
Eskha.
 
Raw femme power comes in the form of Fei-Fei, an established artist from the US, she is all about sexual liberation and making hyper techno for the hoes. Whilst Reblok has made a remarkable comeback as a techno producer after a decade in Tech House, with his music supported by I Hate Models, Kobosil and even Netflix.
 
Columbian producer Noise Mafia kicks off the VA with ‘Gansha’. The Bogata resident - who recently debuted on digital platform HOR - masterfully blends a frenzied bass and drum combo featuring a vocal improv that harmonises with whistling pan flute melodies. The energy remains at full-tilt with the arrival of Mexican techno-export, Mariana Revilla and her track ‘Baby G’. From the off a rush of fidgeting synth riffs run riot through a capacious soundscape of dreamy melodics whilst a hype man MC sample judders alongside.
 
From the Americas to Europe, Rex Club regular Eskha manifests the spirit of the Parisian underground with his track ‘Bisous Bisous’. A warehouse party thriller featuring a female vocalist whose rave-ready hooks rotate around measures of bulbous bass, hypo percussion, and neon whistle effects. Riding the electro-rush set early on comes Fei-Fei - who recently topped Beatport’s Top100 - with ‘Queen of Acid’. Employing original vocals to offer a tongue in cheek “allegiance” pledge at the intro the beat is in stark contrast to her sugary online persona as she opts for gritty industrial sonics, pounding drumbeats, and chaotic breakdowns.
 
Hailing from the Balklans, Reblok’s music has featured on a number of labels throughout his career, but ‘Vigor’ is his first on ARTCORE. The track isn’t exactly PG-friendly with a revolving hook that reels off various illicit substances atop a marching, warrior bass and distorted synth. The duo of Victor Magan & Franklin Dam collaborates for their VA contribution titled, ‘Locura’. A curious track that pulsates with kinetic vigour and features a side-scrolling arcade like melody that skips and dances in-between each verse and hook. ARTCORE regular CHRS abruptly changes the VA’s course with ‘Hot Rhythm’, an all-out audio assault of fast, chasmic techno that incorporates a breakbeat style loop and thudding old-school rave stabs.
 
With the VA drawing to a close AD7USTMENT follows the techno trail with ‘Seventeen’. Again, it’s a tough, rock-steady melody that chugs with an ethereal resonance amid a torrent of perpetual percussion. The eerily enigmatic TEUTON is another familiar name from ARTCORE-verse and his track ‘Gaya Calling’ epitomises his dramatic musical style. Beginning with a decisive drum-kick the beat ominously begins to develop by way of clamorous laser effects, delirious vocals and mechanized basslines. Wrapping up ‘ARTCORE ADE 2024 Vol.2’ are ANSBRO and C303 with ‘Ex Anima’. A war-cry of a beat that could soundtrack the final battle-scene of a dark space-opera with its stomping lead, hellish space pads and metallic sonic textures.

07 CHRS - Hot Rhythm (Extended Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

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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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Earlier this year, ARTCORE took another bold step into a new and innovative direction with the first release of its DUO series. So far Avan7, Becker, Interactive Noise, Marhu, Valentinø, Giorgia Angiuli and BEC have all featured as part of this new concept – in which two artists are selected to feature on one EP.

ARTCORE DUO IV see’s CHRS and SUMIA join forces, with 2 tracks each to be released on the 5th June. CHRS, a Sicilian artist who is no stranger to the label, is also a resident and label manager of Phase 2. With shows this year in his home of Catania, Phase 2’s Festival as well as Hi Ibiza, his sound is trace, with groove and experimental touches, all elements he’ll add to an exciting remix planned for a historic artist later this year. 

SUMIA, also known as Turkey’s “Princess Of Hard Dance”, is the founder of charity event ‘Stronger Together’ and the Volx community Records owner. She says her sound is currently evolving, and this release leans more towards a trance/bounce direction, whilst she embarks on a new concept to perform her own tracks totally live during her DJ sets at some of her upcoming shows this summer in Rome, Serbia and Japan.

SUMIA opens the release with ‘Kill Mia’. An alarm like synth provides the foundation of the melody which begins with the classic ‘trill’ transition accompanied by rotating bass notes, shotgun claps and whispering vocals.

CHRS employs the incredible vocals from Revia on ‘Missing Pieces’. The track showcases his trademark sound, with a pacy concoction of supercharged percussive power and thrumming pad effects open before the soulful vocals begin to flow to provide nuance, whilst a potent core of dramatic synth fills rumble coldly beneath.

SUMIA didn’t earn her title of her ‘Hardcore Princess’ by accident. On ‘Fisiltiar’, she expertly fuses fierce bass chops and imposing drums with a reverberating, siren like effect. But, out of almost nowhere, a charming stringed chorus intercepts before the melody takes its final drop and bursts with shockwaves of electric musicality.

CHRS closes the release with ‘Inside The Heart’. A venture into drum n bass / neurofunk territory, offering an adrenaline fuelled ride through a counter-current of amen drum patterns, melancholic stabs and serene, euphonious vocal elements. A beautifully linear soundscape that delivers a whole new and welcome audio experience for the ARTCORE faithful. 

ARTCORE DUO IV featuring tracks from SUMIA and CHRS will be released on ARTCORE on the 5th June.

04 CHRS - Inside The Heart (Original Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

02 CHRS Feat. Revia - Missing Pieces (Extended Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

01 SUMIA - Kill Mia (Extended Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

03 SUMIA - Fisiltilar (Extended Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

07 CHRS - I Need Your Touch (Extended Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

Lee Ann Roberts' record label, NowNow presents the second instalment of its new FLUX compilation series, which includes explosive hard techno tracks by Reyno, GODEN, CHRS, Nineted, MXGN, Cyberpunkers, The Devil Dwarf, Stëh, V-tec, Stoltenhoff

The release features artists from around the world, including established names like Cyberpunkers and Stoltenhoff, alongside new talents such as Reyno. Each track was handpicked by Lee Ann Roberts after being tested in her DJ sets.

It’s a brutal release that strikes the balance between trance infused euphoria and the darkness of gritty drums and industrial textures. Some of the artists on this release such as NineTed and Stoltenhoff have featured on previous NowNow releases, but others are joining the imprint after featuring on the likes of Gomboc Records, HEKATE Records, TFT Records, ARTCORE RECORDS, Filth On Acid, and Exhale.

This release is packed with tracks that are designed to detonate with maximum dancefloor impact, and each is a weapon that’s essential for a hard techno arsenal.

03 CHRS - Depth Coefficient Hard (Extended Mix) [NowNow]

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“Burned a Lot of Bridges (ADHD Confession)” is a reflection on impulsivity, fatherhood, and redemption — a testimony from a restless mind learning to lead with love.

Written and performed by RestlessSaint, this track turns ADHD’s chaos into cadence — tracing the journey from misunderstood kid to intentional father, from medicated silence to spiritual balance. It’s part confession, part prayer, part letter to his son.

🎧 For anyone who’s ever been called “too much” and turned that label into light.

🔥 “Told me I was broken, but I wasn’t — I was passionate.
Overflowing soul in a system that was inadequate.”

💬 Drop a ⚡️ if this one hits home — for every parent, teacher, or kid who ever got mislabeled instead of understood.

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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.

Real talk. No masks.
RestlessSaint blends pain with purpose — turning battles into bars and faith into fire.
Boom-bap grit meets modern soul.
For the broken, the bold, and the becoming.

PHASE 2 | ARTCORE | VERKNIPT

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Promos: chrspromos@gmail.com

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