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20 Questions With Indira Paganotto: ‘Psytrance Was Something Alternative, But Not a Cool Scenario for the Techno People’
The Spanish producer makes her Coachella debut this weekend. "Even my mom knows what this festival is," she says.
This choice jells with the Spanish psytrance producer’s generally hard aesthetic: her intricate music — laced with a spiritual chants and loaded with kickdrum — is intense, as are looks favoring latex and snakes as accessories. Before she left on this U.S. run, a film crew from the festival traveled to Paganotto’s home on Spain’s Canary islands to interview her and her parents about her rise, a moment that makes her so proud as she talks about it that she tears up. As she tells it, it’s been a long road from working for cash in Madrid afterhours clubs to the success she’s achieved as a DJ and producer, a trajectory that’s included two slots on the Tomorrowland mainstage, closing sets at Serbia’s influential techno festival EXIT, a 2025 residency at Hï Ibiza and upcoming shows across South America and Europe, some of them showcases for her label, Artcore.
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