Tatv Gral premiere ‘Treachery’ DSTR remix video and release the ‘Treachery EP’
Tatv Gral premiere the “Treachery” DSTR remix video on Side-Line, remixed by Daniel Myer of Haujobb, from the Chicago artist’s new “Treachery EP” on Bandcamp.
Chicago dark synth / industrial artist TATV GRAL returns to Side-Line.com with the exclusive video premiere
of the DSTR remix of ‘Treachery’, launching alongside the four-track Treachery remix EP.
While the original single explores the collision of opposing archetypal forces through a contemporary industrial and dark electronic lens, the remix EP extends the work in another direction, bringing together four distinct interpretations of the song: the original single version produced by William Faith, alongside reinterpretations by DSTR (Daniel Myer of Haujobb), Tweaker (Chris Vrenna of NIN), and fellow Chicago industrial outfit [melter]. Together, they gradually revealed an unexpected narrative to TATV GRAL’s Allen Addington only after the project was complete.
Discussing the DSTR remix, Addington says: “I asked Daniel to find something in the song I hadn’t expressed myself – a different vantage on it. He pitched my voice down until it felt like I was speaking through a mask and built the track around a sense of searching rather than arrival. It also felt fitting, given Haujobb’s own homage to Front 242’s ‘Headhunter’ video on ‘We Must Wait’ featuring Jean-Luc De Meyer. Daniel already works within that lineage of one generation nodding to the last. It was only once I had all the remixes back that I recognized a narrative running through them alongside my original. DSTR is the search. [melter]’s mix is the extreme of the moment itself.
Tweaker’s is the reflective aftermath. I didn’t consciously plan that arc. It revealed itself only after all the remixes were finished, as though each artist had uncovered a different aspect of the same song. I’m hoping to make two more videos to complete that story.”
That same sense of continuity informed the accompanying video, which relocates the song from the symbolic interior spaces of the original clip into Chicago’s historic industrial landscape. Rather than using the city simply as a backdrop, Addington approached it as part of the visual and cultural lineage that shaped the music itself.
“I shot it in Bridgeport neighbourhood of Chicago, where I live – the same industrial corridors Front Line Assembly used for ‘Isolate’ and KMFDM for ‘Vogue.’ It’s WAX TRAX! territory. Those same streets have appeared recently in Batman films, which says something about how this city’s decay keeps getting recast as myth. I wanted to uncover the history still present in that landscape – the industrial current that’s been there all along.
All the glitch work is hand-built too: no plugins, no AI. Four bars might mean 64 individually designed frames, one at a time. That’s a small homage to where this graphic language actually comes from – hands cutting and layering images long before anyone had a filter to do it for them.”
Tatv Gral’s ‘Treachery’ DSTR remix and the ‘Treachery EP’
The “Treachery EP” runs four tracks: the original “Treachery”, the DSTR remix by Daniel Myer, a remix by Chicago act [melter], and a version by Tweaker, the project of Chris Vrenna. The DSTR remix carries the video premiering here. Tatv Gral self-released the original “Treachery” single in June 2026, produced by William Faith at 13 Studio in Chicago.
About Tatv Gral
Tatv Gral is the solo project of Allen Addington, a multimedia artist based in Chicago, Illinois, active since the mid-1990s. The project mixes dark synth and industrial electronics with themes drawn from archetypal psychology and a queer leather aesthetic. Addington issued the debut “The Chase” in May 2019, followed by “Chiron” in June 2019, “Soul Divine” in March 2020 and “Noncommittal Grey” in March 2023.
In March 2025 Tatv Gral appeared as a guest at the release show for The Funeral March‘s final album “It All Falls Apart”, alongside [melter] and William Faith. The “Treachery” single arrived in June 2026, and the “Treachery EP” now gathers it with the DSTR, [melter] and Tweaker remixes, led by the Daniel Myer video premiering on Side-Line.
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