Parisian techno producer Antigone's sophisticated blend of dancefloor toughness and melodic melancholy put him at the forefront of a resurgent French techno scene in the 2010s.
Born Antonin Jeanson, he was introduced to electronic music by his godmother at the age of eight and in his teens became an insatiable vinyl addict, spending hundreds of pounds a month on records. Starting with minimal and house, he eventually gravitated to techno, becoming a protégé of Sylvain Peltier, aka Zadig, and eventually securing a DJ residency at the Concrete boat party on the Seine. He took h...