Antenna Fides presents PTHGN Mixtape

CLOT Magazine

The next mixtape instalment comes from American DJ and producer PTHGN, who has prepared a selection to give our audiences a glimpse into what he might want to hear on a night out. PTHGN roots in Chicago's music scene have shaped his unique sound that blends electro with influences from techno to grime and everything in between. The artist started out as a visual arts student in Chicago and was initially drawn to music production after exposure to the city's vibrant House, Techno and Footwork scenes. PTHGN's original work was more focused on the interplay between sight/visuals and sound, but his passion for a wide range of music genres, from electro to jazz and grime, led him to favour music creation and production. Emphasizing sound design innovation and musicality, PTHGN's current approach utilizes hardware and modular synths for production and performance, solidifying his status as an emerging artist to watch. PTHGN's Binary Operation EP perfectly captures this with its pulsating drum breaks, dreamy pads, with urban vocal snippets. With a muscley but very suggestive sound, it's Detroit electro with a fresh, dynamic twist. The EP was very recently released in Fides, a Berlin-based record label founded by Tresor Resident Z.I.P.P.O. in 2015. The label releases music influenced by electro, techno, and IDM genres. For the mixtape he has prepared for us, PTHGN adds that he tried to include as much as he could as far as influences go, within reason: I wanted to showcase something way outside the sounds of my EP to give a glimpse into what I might want to hear on a night out and also shine a light on some artists from past and present whose sounds keep me motivated. Tracklist: Final Cut - Open Your Eyes Chatterbox - Hibernation Machino - Nada Es Real Shallowed - Electric Swell T_ERROR - Hard War Exterminador - Pericos Machino - El Diablo Sabe Norwell - Secret Transmission(Solid Blake Remix) DJ Nepali - Vanity of your ego Dez Williams - Carkrash Vikdim Datawave - Concretion Assembler Code - BIOS Anthony Rother - Destroy Him My Robots Unhuman - Unterstützung