WHO IS MADADKIN?

DECADENT PLUS MUSIC

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Madadkin is the musical and multimedia project of Paul David Adkin Sherwin.

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The songs move freely between rock, folk, blues, electronic music, theatrical storytelling, satire, and experimental sound. No single genre is sufficient. Each release finds its own form.

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Over time, a phrase emerged to describe this approach:

Decadent Plus Music.

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Music created within a civilisation that has become technologically powerful, culturally fragmented, and increasingly detached from meaningful purpose — yet still capable of producing beauty, humour, insight, and resistance.

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The songs explore the tensions of contemporary life: alienation and belonging, power and injustice, faith and doubt, technology and control, tragedy and absurdity.

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Some tracks are political. Some are philosophical. Some are comic. Some are simply stories.

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What connects them is not a style, but a perspective.

Madadkin works from inside the modern world rather than outside it. The music accepts no fixed genre, no fixed ideology, and no fixed audience. It moves wherever a particular song needs to go.

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The aim is simple:

To entertain.

To provoke.

To unsettle.

To illuminate.

Not a genre.

A position.