{"id":61821,"date":"2025-11-26T18:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61821\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:33:07","slug":"tiga-to-perform-two-miami-shows-during-art-basel-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61821\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiga to Perform Two Miami Shows During Art Basel Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiga\u2019s<\/a> new single, \u201cEcstasy Surrounds Me,\u201d with its unapologetic synth-pop glory, is not the artist\u2019s soapbox stand or effort to resurrect a genre that began back in the Carter administration. It\u2019s a song that tries to explain the genesis of the Canadian\u2019s three-decade-long career<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a synth-pop record,\u201d he says matter-of-factly to the New Times<\/a> from his Montreal home. \u201cIt\u2019s just my first love, it\u2019s the music I grew up with. I think for anyone who makes music, everyone has their real love and the things they dream of making.\u201d<\/p>\n

The single<\/a> is tied to his upcoming fourth album, Hotlife, set for release in April 2026. It begins with those time-honoured synths that feel like driving the white convertible down Collins Ave.\u00a0A pounding kick enters, and synths layer over each other while a confident vocalist takes the mic. \u201cHonestly, have you ever met someone like me?\/she said, Oh baby, there\u2019s been so many\/You\u2019re just no good to me.\u201d It\u2019s a track that carries some nostalgia, to be sure, but also suitable for the cell-phone-flooded club havens of today.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hyperbole to say that every mainstream or underground DJ has played a Tiga track at some point. For one, his songs usually come wrapped in entrancing vocals and forceful basslines (see, \u201cLet\u2019s Go Dancing\u201d). Second, they are just downright fun to play (see, \u201cBugatti\u201d and 2009\u2019s \u201cYou Gonna Want Me\u201d). It\u2019s exactly why locals and tourists alike should catch his two sets at Factory Town during Art Basel, the first on Friday, December 5, for Beltran\u2019s Beltools party and the second at Solomun\u2019s Diynamic showcase.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI never thought I would have these, almost like \u2018dance standards,\u2019 it\u2019s cool. I guess I\u2019m cooler with it now, but I personally don\u2019t like to reminisce,\u201d he explains. \u201cI guess it\u2019s, I don\u2019t know,\u00a0 it\u2019s like, if your music touched people and people love it, and if it was a soundtrack for great times in their lives, I know that feeling, and it\u2019s a really important feeling. I\u2019m into it\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tiga James Sontag grew up in Montreal and spent some of his childhood in Goa, India, where his father would DJ at parties in the late \u201870s. Upon returning to Canada, he was enamoured by groups<\/a> like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, and the KLF. He began DJ\u2019ing as a teenager, throwing parties with friends, and fell into the local rave scene, where he crate-digged and eventually owned the hometown and influential club, Sona. Around that time, he founded his successful label, Turbo. Tiga eventually made his first visit to Miami for the Winter Music Conference<\/a> in the late \u201990s. \u201cI remember feeling like a total unknown with a window to the industry,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n

He admits that tracks like \u201cLet\u2019s Go Dancing\u201d do not always align perfectly with his taste, but a track like \u201cEcstasy Surrounds Me,\u201d which he and his frequent collaborator Matthew Dear wrote, is the foundation of what made Tiga want to DJ. \u201cI needed to hear it,\u201d he explains. \u201cThere\u2019s some romance to it and some attitude and confidence. It\u2019s a confident record. It\u2019s not so easy to make stuff, to capture it without it feeling pastiche, is not so easy for me. I think it has a genuine feeling for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

On December 5, he will release another single from Hotlife, \u201cSilk Scarf,\u201d in collaboration with Fcukers. \u201cI don\u2019t even know how records like that happen,\u201d he chuckles. \u201cIt started as a good groove, and I added some strange vocals to it; then a strange story formed.\u201d Tiga was working on other projects with the New York duo (Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis) and figured the time was right for the two to lend some vocals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bass bounces off the walls with unsettling screeches and tinges of acid. \u201cYou wear a silk scarf when you walk down the street,\u201d repeats Lewis and Wise, in an almost mocking tone. \u201cA record like that, you\u2019re actually hearing people having fun in the studio.\u201d There is no symbolism in \u201cSilk Scarf\u2019s\u201d lyrics or instructions to play the track backwards under a full moon to uncover the meaning of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It truly is three friends creating something off the cuff, and with the added advantage of being gifted artists. Tiga modulates the synths so much that at its lows, it sounds like an army of mechanical bees buzzing in your ears. The radio edit is only three minutes, but you come out sweating.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It could be the ageless vocals in Tiga\u2019s tracks, the fact that he has never devoted himself to one particular scene, or his youthful appearance \u2014 sharp, retro-inspired hair, black eyeliner, but his catalogue never wanes. Indeed, it could not have been longer than a year ago when I heard Carl Cox dropped \u201cLet\u2019s Go Dancing,\u201d and for good measure \u2014 how would a track with its thumping basslines, heady percussion, and commanding vocals roaring at you to \u201cLet\u2019s go dancing, I wanna go dancing with you. All night, dancing \u201c not hold its weight? He may have produced only four albums in the last 30 years, but each one remains the artist at his best.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAn album is like the best way to cross it all off your list and start fresh. So for this one, it was really important, and it had been so long, especially with COVID. It was very, very important to clear the slate, and sometimes you\u2019re surprised that you can still make music, that there is still the desire. It feels exciting,\u201d he wraps. <\/p>\n

Tiga. With Beltran, Danny Daze, DJ Tennis, and more. 9 p.m. Friday, December 5, at Factory Town, 4800 NW 37th Ave, Miami; factorytown.com<\/a>.Tickets cost $120 to $100.01 to $155.22 via dice.fm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tiga. With Solomun, Steve Angello, Avalon Emerson, and more. Danny Daze, DJ Tennis, and more. 9 p.m. Sunday, December 7, at Factory Town, 4800 NW 37th Ave, Miami; factorytown.com<\/a>.Tickets cost $60.02 to $120 via dice.fm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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