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  • Tiga
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  • Tiga
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  • ZZT_(duo)
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  • Living people
  • Remixers
  • Club DJs
  • Juno Award winners
  • Electroclash
  • 1974 births
  • Canadian DJs
  • Canadian electronic musicians
  • Canadian house musicians
  • Musicians from Montreal
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  • Canadian producer/DJ based in Montreal. Founder of the label Turbo.
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  • Tiga James Sontag (born 1974 in Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. Tiga /ˈtiːɡə/ has released two albums entitled Sexor and Ciao! Sexor won the 2007 Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year. Tiga released a selection of compilations in the early 2000s, featuring mixes such as American Gigolo, DJ-Kicks: Tiga and, Mixed Emotions, which put him on the map as one of %22the world's best mixers%22. His most recent compilation mix, Tiga Non-Stop, was released in November 2012, and premiered Tiga's latest single %22Plush.%22 The mix also features tracks from artists such as Kindness, Duke Dumont and Blawan.Tiga has remixed songs from the likes of The xx, LCD Soundsystem, The Kills, Cabaret Voltaire, Scissor Sisters, Peaches, Moby, Depeche Mode, Justice, Friendly Fires and Mylo. Along with Zombie Nation, Tiga is half of ZZT, and has released material as The Dove, Rainer Werner Bassfinder (with Jesper Dahlbäck), and TGV (with Mateo Murphy). He has also co-produced music with the likes of Soulwax, James Murphy, Chilly Gonzales, Jesper Dahlbäck, and most recently Matthew Dear, who he worked with on %22Plush.%22As a solo artist, Tiga released %22Sunglasses at Night%22 with Finnish producer Jori Hulkkonen (aka Zyntherius). The single reached number 25 in the UK Dance Chart. Other successful chart singles include %22Pleasure From the Bass%22, %22You Gonna Want Me%22 featuring Jake Shears, and his 2009 release “Shoes,” co-produced with Soulwax and Chilly Gonzales.Tiga is the host of the BBC Radio 6 Music show %22My Name Is Tiga%22, and made his acting debut in the 2010 film Ivory Tower, co-starring Chilly Gonzales, Feist and Peaches. The film won special mention at the Locarno International Film Festival.
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  • DJ Tiga
  • Tiga %22Virgomanlover%22
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  • Montreal techno DJ/producer Tiga Sontag
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  • 1974
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  • Last Gang Records
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  • Pop
  • Electronica
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