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DJ Tiga
Tiga’s well known nowadays due to his electro sets and tracks but he’s been playing for eons, which is odd because he doesn’t look a day over twenty three.
You will be in Buenos Aires on December 11th playing at the South American Music Conference. Will you be attending any of the talk/workshops given at the Conference?
Maybe I will.. I didn’t even know about that… It’s the first South American music conference? Yeah, I’ll try to. It depends. I think I’ll be playing in Santiago the night before so I have to get a copy of the schedule but I would like to spend an extra day. I’d like to. I like conferences.
Do you think it will influence Miami’s WMC’s importance?
Miami’s getting a little, I don’t know, it’s been going for a long time, it could do with a little competition… the Miami conference has never been so great, I mean, it’s okay but musically it’s pretty lame, not like Sonr in Spain.
I like your bio. At first I believed it but then firgured out that it’s making fun of all those DJ bios that desperately want to be highbrow and intellectual. Did you write it?
Yeah, I mean the thing about bios and videos and all that kind of stuff is that they can get kind of boring if you take them too seriously. I have to entertain myself and my friends… it’s not poking fun at anyone specifically… Anything you write in your bios ends up being reality because people read it all over the world and end up recycling little bits and so I think I took that idea and had fun with it because you can say anything you want and it becomes true. Years later, I mean now the things I’ve written in that biography or other biographies people keep repeating … it’s funny because you create your own history.
The video for It’s Gettin’ Hot in Here’, was it your idea?
Yeah.
Did you get any feedback from Nelly?
I didn’t hear from Nelly personally… That video did really well. It got a lot of play on MTV. In Europe it was number one on MTV Dance Videos for a while and even in the States it was played a lot. It was my little brother that did the puppets. It was a great video, I was really happy with it.
Are you still throwing parties at the Society of Art & Technology?
No. I stopped doing parties over there. I think they still do parties over there but I haven’t – . I’ve been traveling too much, touring too much, working on my album… For me it’s better to DJ at a party in Montral than organize the party. I’ll do one in the winter probably I’ll probably do one in January or February.
I think it’s awesome that you have it at the SAT. That would be impossible in Vancouver. City Hall officials in Montreal seem a lot more flexible than the ones in Vancouver regarding nightlife.
Yeah, I think they’ve become more flexible. They didn’t use to be but the whole dance scene is pretty big in Montreal and I think they’ve just had to accept it.
Do you have any labels besides Turbo Recordings and White Leather?
There was a house label… but we haven’t really done much on that one. No, as far as labels go it’s Turbo and White Leather and smaller labels, I guess sub-labels, but mainly Turbo. No, that’s it for labels. Turbo’s doing really really well. We released the Chromeo album this is a Turbo record they’re playing right now and we’ve got a lot of new releases right now. We’re focusing a lot on Montreal bands…
Are you releasing a lot of techno right now?
Techno? I don’t know what to call the music I do… everything has a techno influence
But you used to be a techno DJ before?
Yeah, that’s what I would have been classified as but I’ve always played everything… it depends because sometimes I’d be a ‘rave’ DJ, sometimes a hard techno DJ, I played breaks for a while, funky house, back to techno. Techno’s always been there, it never goes away.
Do you have any albums?
Yeah, my first album, my debut album, will be coming out in April. It should be finished by December. It’s coming out on Turbo… a real artist album… it’s all original stuff, all self-produced… a lot of singing, a lot of song.
http://www.tiga.ca
http://www.turborecordings.com/
http://www.whiteleather.ca/
http://www.iloveneon.ca/
http://www.ph1.ca
http://www.samc.net/
http://www.wmcon.com/
http://www.sonar.es/
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