The Videodrome mk XXV

are you as excited about the parklife lineup as iam? probably/probably not.

one member of the lineup that i saw was tiga. in honour of his prestigious parklife selection, i thought id share this interview that he gave at the end of last year. i hope this is what he will perform at parklife. tiga interview set.


Tiga - Ciao Means Forever Pt 1


Tiga - Ciao Means Forever Pt 1

a tiga interview set would sit very nicely alongside the bertie blackman sneaker set. so excited for 'wacky' novelty sets

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Lyrically, Tiga sounds like a whining bitch that can't find his bot-bot.

Visually, he looks like a slick, Greek version of Jack from Will & Grace. Such a poser.

Musically, Tiga knows that people are listening to him when they're on it, when they're hella-drunk and when they're mating. It's almost a sense of we need to hear Tiga, like we need Viagra for round 3.

His playful new album Ciao! ticks all the boxes we got from the Juno Award winning Sexor. There's the dirty-dancing numbers "What You Need" and "Beep-Beep-Beep". There's electro-pop spinners like "Shoes". At times it borders on corny but, and a very big but, there's a new dimension to this little Canadian leprechaun. He shows us a tender, introspective side on the synth-laden "Gentle Giant" and multi-layered "Love Don't Dance Here Anymore".

The Electroclash master has collab'd with Soulwax and Gonzales on this record and you can definitely hear the rocky mountains here - so much artistic variation between these tracks - compared to the uniform sound of his debut.

Here's a sweet Mr Oizo remix of "Shoes". Love the original, and this is a light-hearted, jittering take on it.

Tiga - Shoes (Mr Oizo Remix)

The Proxy have just turned "What You Need", a lesson in distortion and tongue-in-cheek, into a nymph of a remix. It's got a sexy build-up, and how good is the Apocalypse audio filter effect in the original?

Tiga - What You Need (The Proxy Remix)