Track 13 from Aduaine's VA 'System Collapse'
Released February 14 2025
Label: Aduaine
Album: System Collapse (Various Artists)

Written/Produced by Johnny McDowell
Artwork by Aduaine
Mastering by sleepunderwriter

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"Aduaine starts off 2025 with a massive 16 track compilation that showcases a wide ranging sonic palette of electronic sounds from braindance to downbeat breaks to dub techno and everything in between. Aduaine regulars are featured, as are numerous other local synth maestros from Ireland. In addition some of our favourite artists and friends of the label from around the globe have come on board, each selected for their own unique style to complete this ambitious release.

Thanks to all the artists - Sadnoise, Lerosa, JP8080, CH415, Hex Tulpa, Human Behind Pluto, Brendon Moeller, Mause, Latchwork, Gesceap, Crispy Jason, Sleep Underwriter, cable.percussion, ZOiD, Peter Sweeney and Flathan

Available on tape cassette for 9 earth tokens. Shipping starts at the end of February.

Dedicated to the memory of JP8080, Árni Grétar."

System Collapse on Bandcamp: https://aduaine.bandcamp.com/album/system-collapse
Paraben on YouTube: https://youtu.be/o9s5Ize-4U4?si=a3B-b24oCQXOawm2

System Collapse

Paraben

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Continuing to bolster an already rock-solid reputation for ingenuity, ARTCORE’s next release brings together three of Japana’s finest for a triple EP ‘Tokyo Family’. Comprised of 4-tracks, from 4 top producers from Japan, including PARTYMONSTER, Spectra Sonics, Prohecht, Xipe Totecs have all contributed to the release, which will arrive on 9th October.

The four of them are the latest additions to an already inspiring roster on Indira Paganotto’s ARTCORE - bringing their gorgeously high-octane, homegrown styles together for the first time, a special EP celebrating the talent of Japanese musicians.

Spectra Sonics’ beautifully image heavy aesthetic smartly bridges authentic PSY like energy with the pummelling drive of more contemporary PSY and techno stylings. For his acutely futurist offering, ‘Tribes Of Trance’ opens the release, the vibrant beat-craftsman employs a skittish menace of twitching synth atop an uneasy cluster of distorting modulations and billowing grooves.

The duo of Ana and Yuki make up explosive PSY centric collective Xipe Totecs. Integral to developing their beloved sound in the city of Kyoto, the pair are at the centre of an exciting PSY-trance movement and are regular performers at many of the open-air parties their home city plays host to. On their eerily atmospheric number Kagome the duo adds an unnerving twist to the EP. Under a firing onslaught of rumbling low-end and rave oddities, a haunting folklore-like vocal loops around pulsing drums and skipping synth capturing the spirit of urban legend within a pacy, trance rooted framework.

As founder of the same Tokyo vibe starters that share his name, PARTYMONSTER has been an unstoppable force in Japan’s PSY-trance scene. On his track, ‘Nippon’, the influential producer evokes a chorus of traditional Japanese instruments and subtly contorted sonics to open. Following a radiant blur of thunderous bass, riveting kicks and watertight percussion the beat fades to a final crash of whistles and strings to conclude a sprightly label debut. 

The fourth artist and final track of the EP comes from Propecht. Based in Tokyo he has taught himself the fundamentals of software and synths. Collaborating with Spectra Sonics already, he also released on Brazilian psy-trance label SYNK87 Music. ‘System Collapse’ combines jittering synth patterns with broad, sweeping pads concocting a dense, heavy opening and a feeling of feverish anticipation. After the initial break the track unfolds to crescendo of engrossing grooves and charging rhythms whilst a tranquil vocal navigates this resounding tech-trance offering until the closing stages of track.

04 Prohecht - System Collapse (Extended Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

“COMMUNITY OF SHADOWS” is Silk & Circuitry at his most unfiltered, uncompromising, and surgically precise.
This track doesn’t shout into the void —
it names the void, maps its walls, and lights a match in its centre.

This is the Greymouth Community Mental Health system stripped of its polite mask.
The whispered misdiagnoses.
The fabricated case-note rumours.
The “clinical opinions” built on gossip instead of evidence.
The silence that felt like abandonment.
The paperwork that replaced care.
The trauma they blamed on you instead of the assault you survived.

This is the sound of every callback that never came.
Every lie that got written as fact.
Every time they said “history of psychosis” when the truth was a gas poisoning and an overdose inflicted on you by someone else.
Every time they took shortcuts with your life because it was easier to write a paragraph than face the reality of the injuries right in front of them.

COMMUNITY OF SHADOWS is a militant audit —
a tribunal set to war drums and glitch-fire.
A testimony delivered with the discipline and rage that only survival can forge.

The track rips the wallpaper off Greymouth’s mental health system and shows what’s hiding underneath:
ghost patients ignored,
misfiled lives buried in corridors,
a building where trauma echoes louder than care.
Every bar is a receipt.
Every chorus is a spotlight.
Every verse drags a buried truth into daylight and makes it stand on the record.

This isn’t revenge.
This is documentation set to music.

A warning shot wrapped in industrial trap.
A voice for every person who walked into that building looking for help and walked out carrying more damage than they walked in with.
A reminder that communities don’t crumble from loud survivors —
they crumble from silent institutions.

Silk & Circuitry doesn’t speak for the system.
He speaks for the shadows it created.
And this time, the shadows get the final word.



Community Of Shadows

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.

🕸️ Silk & Circuitry 🧠⚡

Welcome to the tangled thread between trauma and transcendence.
This is where music becomes a mirror—reflecting the fractures, the fight, and the fire.
We don’t just make beats. We build bridges. Between pain and purpose.

Here, recovery isn’t a quiet thing.
It’s a war cry wrapped in melody,
a healing ritual whispered through circuitry,
a love letter to those who feel too much in a world that rewards those who feel nothing.

Every track is stitched with intent:
🕯️ To hold space for the broken
⚖️ To call out control masked as care
🧬 To challenge the narcissists who built their webs in our minds
🛠️ And to offer tools—not just songs—for doing what’s right when the cost is everything.

Silk & Circuitry is for the ones who walk away from the web
and grow wings instead.

This is art as resistance.
This is trauma turned frequency.
This is the ghost in your machine, learning how to feel.



Hardware-produced electronica
Electro / Acid / IDM / Braindance / Techno / Breaks

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