Fran Beceiro writes drum parts before he writes anything else. That’s where most Supercore tracks start, in his Buenos Aires home studio. A drum pattern first, then a texture, then sometimes a song.
“I’d say 90% of these tracks started with textures or weird sounds that resonated with me and eventually turned into songs,” he says. “Drums are a big part of it too. For some reason I like to write drum parts really early on. A lot of the time it’s the first thing on a track. But everything is subject to change at almost any point, and each new song can open up a completely different process.”
That process produced “Erased,” the debut EP Supercore released in September 2025 with a vinyl run pressed in the United States through Sonic Rising Records. Mastered at Crossroads Studios. Industrial rock with post-punk pull, written, recorded and produced by one person and then handed off to a four-piece live band.
It took a while to get there. Beceiro is vague about how Supercore actually started, because the project’s shape arrived later than its first attempts.
“I don’t really remember what started it. There was a long, tedious process of relentlessly trying everything to figure out exactly what I wanted to make. Countless demos. It wasn’t just about writing songs, it was about discovering what the identity of the project actually was. Once I had the first track, everything started becoming clearer and falling into place.”
He doesn’t try to pre-engineer what the songs will need on a stage. The studio is a place to capture an idea and finish it.
“To me, music is no different from any other artistic discipline in the sense that what you’re trying to do is capture an idea and turn it into something real, using whatever tools you have available. I’m not sitting in the studio thinking about how the hell we’re going to play this live six months from now. I try to focus on what I want to create at that moment – the live stuff is something I’ll figure out later.”
That figuring-out happens with three other people. Andres Villanueva on bass and programming, Axel Velazquez on guitar and synthesizers, Emilio Paravisi on drums. Beceiro plays guitar and keyboards alongside vocals. What ends up on stage isn’t always what’s on the record.
“Once the material leaves the studio, the live setting is a whole different thing. What worked in the studio doesn’t always translate with a band. I’m always open to trying different things until something works, and discarding whatever doesn’t – regardless of how it sounds on the record. What usually happens is the songs get heavier, more aggressive, and feel more visceral.”
Doing this without a band wasn’t an option for him.
“I love these guys, they’re my friends. I wouldn’t want to be touring alone or singing along to a laptop. We have fun playing together and we respect each other. Right now it’s a really good environment to make music in, and I’m really proud of the band we’ve built. Can’t wait to get out there and play shows.”
The vinyl gets pressed an ocean away from where the songs were written, a small US label putting Supercore on physical media for an audience the band may never play in front of.
“It’s a wild thing, knowing that what you created gets pressed onto a piece of plastic and heard thousands of kilometers from where you are. Pretty cool.”
A live session video of “How Much Can We Give Away?”, the closing track on the EP, is also out, capturing the four-piece version of a song that didn’t exist that way when it was written.
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