Tiga (musician)

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Tiga
Birth name Tiga James Sontag
Born 1974
Origin Montreal, Canada
Genre(s) Electroclash, Tech House, Electro house, Acid House,
Occupation(s) Producer, DJ
Years active 2001 - present
Label(s) Turbo Recordings, PIAS Recordings
Associated acts Tiga & Zyntherius, TGV, Rainer Werner Bassfinder, ZZT
Website http://www.tiga.ca

Tiga (pronounced /ˈtiːɡə/) is the stage name of Montreal-born DJ/producer Tiga James Sontag (born 1974). His album Sexor won the 2007 Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year.

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[edit] Career

He graduated from Selwyn House School, a prestigious school in Westmount. Before producing music, he was involved in the promotion of rave parties in his native city during the early 1990s, also Tiga was involved in the creation of world renowned afterhours club SONA. In 1994, he opened a record store named DNA Records, and in 1998 founded his own label, Turbo Recordings.

Tiga is widely known for his remixes: Tomas Andersson's "Washing Up", Scissor Sisters' "Comfortably Numb" and Felix da Housecat's "Madame Hollywood" but also for his covers of Nelly's "Hot in Herre" and Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night". He produces his own material, but has also worked with Zyntherius, Richard X and Jake Shears from Scissor Sisters. He has frequently collaborated with Mateo Murphy (with whom Tiga forms the duo TGV) and Jesper Dahlbäck, who had produced many of Tiga's newer remixes. Tiga is also good friends with Stephen and David Dewaele from Soulwax, who produced about half of the tracks on Tiga's debut album Sexor. His song "3 Weeks" has received repeated airplay in night clubs. Soulwax are currently producing Tiga's second album. His song "You Gonna Want Me" is featured on CTV's So You Think You Can Dance Canada commercial.

As of late 2008, Tiga has continued to produce music in collaboration with Zombie Nation under the pseudonym ZZT; Two 12" releases have resulted from the collaboration.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

[edit] DJ Mix Compilations

[edit] Singles

  • "Sunglasses at Night" (2001), with Jori Hulkkonen, as Tiga & Zyntherius (UK #25)
  • "TGV EP" (2002), as TGV, with Mateo Murphy
  • "DJ-Kicks Promo" (2002), with Mateo Murphy
  • "Running out of Time EP" (2003), as TGV, with Mateo Murphy
  • "Hot in Herre" (2003), with Mateo Murphy and Jake Shears, (UK #46)
  • "Burning Down" (2003), with Richard X
  • "Pleasure from the Bass" (2004), with Jesper Dahlbäck, (UK #57)
  • "Louder than a Bomb" (2005), with Jesper Dahlbäck
  • "You Gonna Want Me" (2005), with Soulwax and Jake Shears, (UK #64, AUS #65)
  • "Good as Gold" (2005), with Soulwax
  • "Far From Home" (2006), (UK #65, AUS #69)
  • "3 Weeks" (2006), with remixes by Jesper Dahlbäck, Booka Shade and Troy Pierce
  • "Move My Body" (2006) including the original Only4Erol mix and a Boys Noize remix.
  • "Lower state of consciousness" (2007) as ZZT with Zombie Nation, including Justice remix.
  • "Mind Dimension" (2008) (featuring special guest Jori Hulkkonen)
  • "The Worm" (2008), as ZZT with Zombie Nation
  • "Shoes" (2009) (featuring special guests Soulwax & Gonzales)

[edit] Remixes

Tiga has also mixed a DJ-Kicks compilation album and appeared on Richard X's album Richard X Presents His X-Factor Vol. 1 and Jori Hulkkonen's Different. He has provided remixes for artists such as Bran Van 3000, Depeche Mode, Dannii Minogue, Scissor Sisters, Peaches, Felix Da Housecat, Cabaret Voltaire, Soulwax, LCD Soundsystem, FC Kahuna, Télépopmusik, Märtini Brös. and FPU.

[edit] External links

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