We're pleased to present the long-awaited return of our International Guest Mix (IGM) series this month with U.S Producer, DJ & Live Artist - ORTICAAN. Based in Denver, Colorado ORTICAAN has 20 years of experience in and out of the progressive house music scene. Producer, Remixer at JourneyDeep records, Producer at ARRVL records and an artist at Droid9 records. (PHUK Head Honcho Danny Jarvis' favourite label of the moment). You'll hear the quality of his track selection and mixing skills immediately on pressing play. A total match fit for PHUK. Intrigued about his artist name while discussing the mix we asked where the name came from. 'Orticaan, a funny name I know. I was listening to a track called Shubuya by Orkan when the inspiration came. I looked up what Orkan meant, traced it back, loosely translated as hurricane in German. Thought that made sense for my style, driving, relentless, high energy. I kinda elaborated on it to include the AA from DAAZ to run as a theme.' So how does ORTICAAN create his force of nature? 'I use Ableton live to play, I like to use loops & layering of tracks coming in, tracks going out and some extra sounds and rhythmic things to keep it fresh. Eventually, I will incorporate my hardware synths from my production setup to add the atmospherics in real time but right now don't have the space etc...' His favourite producers right now are Simos Tagias, Ruben Karapetyan, Alex O’Rion, Soulmade (AR). These artists match the current tracks Danny, McMo & Garry, our Residents are spinning right now so we couldn't have found a better person to re-start our international series off with. Here's where you heard him first - ORTICAAN