PTP (artist collective)

PTP
Founded2009 (2009)
Founder
  • GENG PTP (a.k.a. King Vision Ultra)
Genreexperimental, hip hop, doom metal, electronic, noise rock
LocationNew York City
Official websiteptp.vision
SloganPurveyors of weaponized media and information.

PTP, also known as Purple Tape Pedigree, is an American artist collective and independent record label based in New York City.[1][2][3] PTP has been called "New York’s experimental incubator",[4] and the collective has released recordings named among the best in new experimental,[5] hip hop,[6] metal,[7] avant-garde,[8] and electronic[9] music. Pitchfork noted that "PTP's mission seems to be to annihilate genre boundaries and revel in the brilliant debris",[10] and VICE has called PTP "home to some of the most boundary pushing music being made".[3]

Artist Geng (stylized GENG PTP)[11] founded the collective as a media platform in 2009, with label operations beginning in 2012.[2][12] Artists associated with PTP include Dreamcrusher,[13] YATTA,[14] Dis Fig,[10] Armand Hammer,[15] Saint Abdullah,[16] Celestial Trax,[17] Among The Rocks And Roots,[18] DeForrest Brown Jr. (also known as Speaker Music),[19] H31R (the duo of maassai and JWords),[20] madam data,[21] Amani,[6] photographer Richard R. Ross,[22] and Geng, who also performs and records as King Vision Ultra.[3]

PTP's projects include Silent Weapons, a live performance series raising money for causes including prison abolition and immigrant rights.[23]

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  2. ^ a b Mickles, Kiana (20 May 2021). "Label Of The Month: PTP". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b c Joyce, Colin (30 May 2018). "King Vision Ultra's Ambient Rap Beats Are Protesting a Broken System". VICE. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  4. ^ Kent-Smith, Jasmine (27 February 2019). ""Trying to communicate": Dis Fig is baring her soul through music". Mixmag. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  5. ^ "The Best Experimental Albums of 2019". Pitchfork. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  6. ^ a b Mlynar, Phillip (7 December 2020). "The Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2020". Bandcamp Daily. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  7. ^ "MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Albums of July 2021". PopMatters. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  8. ^ Reveron, Sean (14 December 2020). "CVLT Nation's Top 10 AVANT GARDE Albums Of 2020". CVLT Nation. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  9. ^ Orlov, Piotr (22 December 2017). "Our Favorite Dance And Electronic Albums Of 2017". NPR. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  10. ^ a b Mlynar, Phillip (14 March 2019). "Dis Fig: PURGE". Pitchfork. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  11. ^ "AAC Sound Series Mix #25: GENG PTP". The Abrons Arts Center. September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  12. ^ "CT Q&A #004-Geng of PTP". Classical Trax. 31 August 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  13. ^ Bowe, Miles (11 December 2020). "The Acid Test's Best Albums of 2020". Bandcamp. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  14. ^ "The Best Albums of 2019: #40 – 21". Bandcamp Daily. 12 December 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  15. ^ Diamond, Samuel (28 August 2018). "PTP releasing Armand Hammer's Paraffin on cassette, hosting immigrants rights, racial justice benefit TONIGHT". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  16. ^ "Listen: Saint Abdullah's Where Do We Go, Now?". The Wire. February 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  17. ^ Pearl, Max (8 November 2017). "Celestial Trax - Nothing Is Real". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  18. ^ Skolnik, Jes (2 March 2018). "This Week's Essential Releases: Americana, Jazz, Noise, and More". Bandcamp Daily. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  19. ^ Dorris, Jesse (15 August 2020). "How DeForrest Brown, Jr., Centers the Black Body in Techno Music". The New Yorker. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  20. ^ Mlynar, Phillip (5 January 2021). "Five Essential JWords and Maassai Releases on Bandcamp". Bandcamp Daily. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  21. ^ "madam data - Gospel Of The Devourer". Resident Advisor. 13 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  22. ^ Poscic, Antonio (8 September 2019). "Silent Weapons: The Spectral Photography Of Richard R Ross". The Quietus. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  23. ^ Ramirez, Carlos (13 August 2018). "King Vision Ultra: Meet the Genre-Bending Producer Raised on Rap, Hardcore + Doom". No Echo. Retrieved 18 September 2021.