Thanos Kazantzis was born in 1983 in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki. He studied percussion with Takis Barbas at a branch of the French École de Batterie Dante Agostini in Thessaloniki, as well as Music Technology and Acoustics at Pythagoras Vocational Training Institute (IEK).

He has composed original music for productions of the Art Theatre. He is active in the fields of rock, art song (entechno), and experimental music, and he runs the audio and video post-production studio and record label Polytropon. He considers free improvisation to be the most honest, fragile, and instantaneous expression of music. He is a sound engineer and the owner of Polytropon Recording Studio (Thessaloniki).

He has collaborated, among others, with Giorgos Apergis, Sakis Papadimitriou, dissonArt ensemble, Karolos Koun Art Theatre, Antonis Anissegos, Vasilis Mantzoukis, Savina Yannatou, Pavlos Pavlidis, and Mary’s Flower Superhead.