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Tiga - Sexor - Debut Album Out Early 2006
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Troll@CrackWhoreModels
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TIGA - SEXOR
Tracklist:
1.Welcome To Planet Sexor
2.Far From Home
3.You Gonna Want Me
4.Highschool (Jamaican Box)
5.Louder Than A Bomb
6.Pleassure From The Bass
7.Who's That
8.Down In It
9.Ballad Of Sexor
10.Good As Gold (Flexible Skulls)
11.Burning Down The House
12.3 Weeks
13.Brothers
Bio:
“The citizen may take a bride, but it is the rifleman who takes a lover. Ultimately we all must choose either the myth or the mountain.”
The origins of Montreal born DJ-producer-incipient Teutonic legend Tiga lie to the vague and troubling East, where he was weaned on the nefarious milk of the notorious 1980s Indian club scene.“To the unforgiving eye,” he says of the sybaritic night-kingdom,“a world of filth and decadence is revealed. For example, I’m fairly certain that more than a few club owners had an unsavory arrangement with the man who brought the folding chairs. I was at once appalled and enraptured. After that, I had no choice in the matter.”
By 1990, Tiga had returned to Montreal, prodigiously nightwise and unsatisfied with the existing local club scene (calling it “the plumage of a bird I cannot bring myself to want.”) With the help of a core group of friends, he began to throw a series of small parties infused with the sense of dead-eyed ennui gleaned from a past littered with acid whores and crazed Indian gamblers. Other innovations which Tiga introduced to Montreal party culture include guest DJs, intense street promotions featuring rival gangs of street acrobats, color flyers, multi-dj sets, and leading the supplicant crowd through the innermost corridors of one’s soul.
It was this heady time of dizzying innovation and ravenous sexual ambition, which culminated in the birth of 1993’s “Solstice,” generally, considered to be Montreal’s first genuine rave. (A year earlier, a hyper-prescient Tiga staged “Eclectricity,” the first online rave, a project whose utter failure remains a source of bafflement: “It broke my heart, given my views on diversity . . . I am, I feel, a very interactive person.”) Tiga has since helped to orchestrate no less than ten major events, including “The Orb Live,” “Pure,” and the very first North American appearance of continental illusionist Jean-There.
In 1994, Tiga bought DNA Records, a small medical data concern, and parlayed it into Montreal’s premiere electronic music boutique. “We’ve always believed in putting the customer first, from helping you find that one minimal house record that will make your collection to offering concerned looks as you wade through the enormous backlog of test results to discover if you are in fact afflicted with a congenital disease.”
In 1996, Tiga privately sang about the death of actor and poet Tupac Shakur.
That same year, the Montreal dance community found a haven for the boldest feats of dance, where fools are in love with mystery and sex-valor is prized above all else. Sona (meaning literally ‘Liar-dancer’) was initially conceived of by Tiga and his two partners as “a perverse, jeering monolith, because nothing is sacred anymore” but it has evolved into much more. In addition to its place among the pantheon of urban groove centers, on weekdays it rents out its facilities, at a very reasonable rate, to a local program dedicated to teaching homeless men to dance properly (“I just think it’s an important project,” Tiga said at the time).
In 1998, Tiga started Turbo Recordings as an outlet for his wildman organ escapades but he soon found a host of other artists who were willing to be paid to record for him. Turbo has released over 20 albums, 2 samplers, and 12 vinyl twelve inches as well as secured global distribution with Prime, Intergroove and Caroline. Notable releases include Peter Benisch’s “Soundtrack Saga,” Christopher Handlebar’s “To a Time of Asia” and Tiga’s own “Mixed Emotions” and “American Gigolo”
By 2001, however, overwork and media saturation began to show their strain, as evidenced by Tiga’s hysterical outburst at a fashion photographer during a promo shoot:
“I’ll sit for your venal cigarette pictures, but I will not indulge you in your game of ‘Eyes! Lies! Surprise!’ I dare you, coward—call out your cloakmen! What are you waiting for? The truth?!”
Following a month spent riding horses and caring for his voice, Tiga entered the studio with producer Zyntherius “Jori” Hulkonnen and a singular vision: “electro, but mainly about my eyes.” The result, a searing rendition of his former Mother Mio bandmate Corey Hart’s solo smash “Sunglasses at Night,” challenged dancers and seduced critics alike, yet Tiga is coy when asked about its impact, particularly in Germany: “’Sunglasses’ is a sinless child, a gleaming medallion. But is also a trick, a trick of memory. You must understand – on a whim, we revealed the hidden fire of Europe.”
But fires need tending and lumber. And so be advised of the onslaught of Tiga-powered releases, both recent and forthcoming. They are his craft, his life, his living craft-fire:
If “Sunglasses at Night” marked Tiga’s coronation as the steely Wolf-King of Dance Mountain, then his remixes for the likes of Martini Bros., Alpinestars, Linda Lamb, Crossover, FC Kahuna, Cabaret Voltaire, Telepopmusik, Felix da Housecat, Fischerspooner, FPU, The Devils (Nick Rhodes), and Danni Minogue have birthed his dewy-eyed heir, Darian. Says Tiga, “I have also produced remixes for City Rockers, and singles for Turbo Recordings, Intec, Drumcode, and Electrix with Mateo Murphy under the name TGV. I am also the hidden hero of the ongoing NHL lockout. I will break the players’ will – you have my solemn word.”
In 2003, Tiga took his conqueror’s tools to the streets, with a heralded mix CD for !K7’s DJ Kicks series, and an ethereal reading of Nelly’s “Hot in Herre,” which became a stalwart success and was subsequently licensed in the UK by Skint (in the UK) and Warner Music (the GAS region). The video, which can be seen at http://www.eyeballnyc.com/tiga, is a revelation of neo-urban dazzle-do, courtesy of the puppet wizardry of Tiga’s brother, the Lord of the Marionette (www.lordofthemarionette.com).
More recently, Tiga has been gracious enough to lend his wind-shattering vocals to Richard X’s “You (Better Let Me Love YouX4) Tonight,” as well as “Heartbreak/Ananda,” by Beyer & Lenk (Adam Beyer and Jesper Dahlback), and Rik Stamina’s “Dancing Inside You.” His remix work on Alex Kidd’s “Come With Me”, Neon Judgement’s “TV Treated,” Scissor Sisters’ cover of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb,” “Da Hype,” by Junior Jack and Robert Smith, and Peaches’ “Shake Yer Dix,” and Soulwax’s “E Talking” comprises a merciless Crimson Romance, lapping at the shores of eternity.
Tiga’s smash single, “Pleasure From The Bass,” a two-fisted jackal that drew a line in the dancefloor sand, was released in 2004 on the Belgian imprint PIAS, and left scores of club DJs desperate to pack Tiga’s musical foxhole.
2005 saw mixes for Depeche Mode, The Vests, Moby, LCD Soundsystem, Mylo, Philippe Zdar, Chelonius Jones, Drama Society, Thomas Andersson and hundreds of others.
“You Gonna Want Me”, the smash duet with jake Shears of Scissor Sisters fame is set to set the earth on fire in October……clearing the way for….
Sexor, his full-length album of original material, is due early 2006, and will sound the clarion call of an emergent Nation-Man.
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Posted : Jan 19, 2006 06:21
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Heard him at the Parking in Montréal and the dancefloor was on fire  |
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Troll@CrackWhoreModels
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Posted : Jan 19, 2006 09:49
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yir he knows how to give pleasure from the bass  |
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Posted : Jan 24, 2006 03:36
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Heard him in Madrid, there were also FatBoy Slim, Green Velvet, D.Y.L.A.N., 2many dj's too( but finally they weren't there  ) and David Guetta
I must say, the best one was Norman Cook(FatBoy Slim), really incredible guy!!!! really!
Tiga was good but I was expectin much more, my girlfriend told me last time she saw him he was really better, anyway great producer  |
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yossi
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Posted : Mar 15, 2006 21:25
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after i dont know how many listenings to this one, i got to the conclusion that "good as gold" is the winer
waiting for my turn to catch one of his shows or sets... (!!!!!)
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Posted : Mar 16, 2006 01:16
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you gonna want me & pleassure from the bass is the best imo...but yes a little too much vocal |
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Posted : Mar 16, 2006 07:53
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yeah, maybe in some parts it go`s too far with the vocals ... but it grows on u after a while.
as for u gonna want me & pleasure from the bass, they r both wicked, but already super hits... so for me they r a bit less attractive for using in sets.
but all in all, its a realy! nice for home listening.
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 05:35
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the best tiga is still for me sunglasses at night and his remix of drama society - crying hero
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 12:48
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 13:42
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yes the sunglasses at night video?
yeah amanda lepore rocks |
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Posted : Mar 30, 2006 14:12
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.. you have to keep the sense of humor while listening to this album guys.... not to be taken to the 1st degree
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yossi
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Posted : Apr 10, 2006 13:36
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i just heard his set @ essential mix
gave me even more appetite to catch his gig somewhere
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Posted : Apr 18, 2006 16:07
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I quite enjoy this album
he was in Helsinki a while back.. unfortunately I missed it
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