Tiga James Sontag is a Canadian DJ, producer of electronic music and musician who was born back in 1974 in Montreal, Quebec. Together with Zombie Nation, Tiga is half of the band ZZT, , and it has introduced substance such as TGV, Rainer Werner Bassfinder as well as The Dove.
Nevertheless, back in 1990 Tiga and several buddies began putting together little celebrations and road promos in Montreal that developed in to a cult-following. Having acquired the DNA record label ’94, the night-club SONA was afterward imagined in Montreal in ’96, with Tiga having a significant part to play within the inception of the dancing arena during the time.
A couple of years after in ’98, Tiga started Turbo Recordings, which journeyed onto launch albums like, “American Gigolo”, Tiga’s very own “Mixed Emotions”, “To a Time of Asia” by Christopher Handlebar and “Soundtrack Saga” by Peter Benisch. Additionally, the music studio ensured international syndication with Caroline, Prime and Intergroove.
Once 2001 arrived, Tiga moved into the recording studio alongside music producer Zyntherius to capture a performance of fellow Montreal native Corey Hart’s single tune, “Sunglasses at Night.” The song furthermore achieved #2 on the United Kingdom Dance Chart, #23 on the United Kingdom National Singles Chart, # 1 on the MTV Dance Chart for more than 6 weeks and was in the Top Twenty on the National Singles Chart in Germany.
In ’03, Tiga attracted the focus of the landscape with a combination CD for K7’s renowned DJ Kicks show. This was pursued by the production of Tiga’s variant of Nelly’s “Hot in Herre,” that was authorized in the United Kingdom by Warner Music Germany and Skint. Tiga additionally provided singing for Richard X’s “You (Better Let Me Love You x4) Tonight” as well as Rik Stamina’s “Dancing Inside You” and “Heartbreak/Ananda” by Jesper Dahlback and Adam Beyer.
In the year 2004, Tiga unveiled yet another track in the kind of “Pleasure From The Bass” via the Belgian label called PIAS. The song “You Gonna Want Me”, a duet completed together with Jake Shears (of Scissor Sisters popularity) came into play soon after.
The following year Tiga finished remixes for Thomas Andersson, Drama Society, Chelonius Jones, Phillipe Zdar, Mylo, LCD Soundsystem, Moby, The Vests and Depeche Mode, just to highlight a few.
Nevertheless, ’06 proclaimed the launch of Tiga’s very first record entitled, Sexor. It was succeeded with his Canadian and European tours which were dubbed, “Sexor over Canada” and “Sexor over Europe” respectively. Additionally, he launched a video for the track “(Far From) Home” in ’06 which was actually filmed while in Tokyo, Japan.
The launch of Tiga’s second record, ‘Ciao!’ came about in ’09. Furthermore, the well-liked tracks “What You Need” and “Shoes” came from this record.
In 2011, Tiga’s group ZZT unveiled their introduction record, “Partys Over Earth” by way of the Turbo Recordings label.
In November of 2012, Tiga published his 1st single in half a dozen years entitled “Plus”. The track was released on the “Different Recordings” label and was thereafter remixed by Sinichi Osawa, Jacques Lu Cont and Ame.
