tiga - bugatti

ew

If the drums weren't so weedy it would be a serviceable if unexceptional bit of Bugged Out-style set filler but good lord that vocal. Voting crap.

Remember when Tiga was good?

i don't

lol

what sort of people are into tiga in 2014

He's still massive as a DJ, in a selling out Belgian aircraft hangers kind of way. I've not been tempted to listen to one of his newer records in years, especially after he called the last album 'Ciao!'

the thought of tiga actually maybe owning or leasing a bugatti

Bugatti is ok. The last single of his really liked was probably Shoes though.

http://youtu.be/lE2B8PfsvGk

He seems completely affable and self-aware.

Uploaded on 10 Apr 2009

Directed by Alex & Liane, the new video for Tiga's "Shoes" is cooler than Obama with frosted tips. "It imagines a horrifying dystopia in which people other than myself are interviewed," says the Man of Music Future, "I had to calm myself down by staring at my MySpace photos for a couple of hours."

The last Tiga thing I remember loving is his remix of lcd soundsystem's "tribulations", which it pains/lols me to realise was nine years ago.

Is this the male version of PC MUSIC or something

Ciao was great, the closing track is a crying-on-the-dancefloor disco classic

Eh I like it in the mix well enough, did a popish house mix recently and it fit quite well between 'trommer og bass' and the TEED remix of little dragon.

love trommer og bass

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bzbr86SIEAAkwC1.png:large

The last Tiga thing I remember loving is his remix of lcd soundsystem's "tribulations", which it pains/lols me to realise was nine years ago.

Sad but true

Is this track some kind of lazy play on "Work Bitch"?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fDFNq84ssY

so are we gonna talk about this or

no id rather not

i don't really care for tiga's music but as a dj he is legit. i've seen him twice and both times it was great, 100% realness 0% electroclash

but johnny mi amigo, we both follow that g code

He is an excellent DJ - one of the reasons he is huge is that he manages to hang onto the coattails of things that are both massive and hugely unfashionable while continuing to basically do what he always does. So he can build an audience by turning up and playing side stages at EDM fests or big trance raves while preserving his credibility in a way that cooler djs wouldn't be able to get away with. He's just unfashionable enough, basically.

Still a terrible record that seems to exist for the sole reason of allowing crowds of excitable Italian ravers to shout "Bugatti!" at the same time.

Bugatti video is very entertaining, even if the song is a bit lacking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFg6amMLd-o

this remix is way better than the original though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLXhb5RKSjg

"Plush" >>>>> "Bugatti"

this sounds like the type of music that got me into the habit of avoiding white queer parties

haha

Like this you mean Rev:

http://vimeo.com/89639240

lol smh (although I was pleasantly surprised they included a trans guy in there just when I was all like this is such a white male cis masc mess)

Still a terrible record that seems to exist for the sole reason of allowing crowds of excitable Italian ravers to shout "Bugatti!" at the same time.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 October 2014 10:36 (1 week ago)

as a complete outsider to the world of dance music, i am intrigued by this split between.....what exactly? not quite uk/continent or anglo world/continent but some sort of line separating those places where this sort of track is something people apologize for liking and where it is perfectly acceptable

note that the only (mild) enthusiasm for tiga in this thread is from sharivari who is probably the ilm poster most aware of continental pop in general, and that this poll was fairly evenly split but none of the people who thought it was good were prepared to justify it

I said I liked it well enough in the mix and had even used it so about 3 posts after sharivari called it "ok".

I think I actually hated Plush whereas I just find this irritating.

Matt, Tim, tlg and I also said positive things about Tiga, just not this track

they were referring to his dj sets and commending them for not being like his own music

I don't mind "Bugatti" at all.

The biggest issue is a temporally-informed enthusiasm gap, not a geographical one. The kind of music Tiga makes increasingly feels like a permanent 2004, but that sound's popular resilience also makes it unlikely to provoke nostalgia (yet).

Rev inadvertently struck on something though: this kind of thing makes much more sense as a 2014 artefact in the context of scenes which hold onto 2004 for very specific reasons; what I'd call the (white) queer-homo alliance is a good example of that.

Tim was implicitly praising his music up until Tribulations. I said his last album of songs he wrote and sang was good, and I'll level up and say Love Don't Dance Here Anymore is one of my favourite records of the last ten years.

the context that interests me is the way that tiga/electrolash which i was vaguely aware of as a mostly new york/london/paris very white-queer scene of a decade or more ago seems to have had a viable afterlife as more of a diffusion line and less appreciably queer thing in continental europe

sic, ok ok

Italo kind of never died in parts of Europe - Russia in a straight form, Germany to some extent as electro-pop, Italy as Italo-house, etc. Electroclash makes sense as a continuation of those themes.

The biggest issue is a temporally-informed enthusiasm gap, not a geographical one. The kind of music Tiga makes increasingly feels like a permanent 2004, but that sound's popular resilience also makes it unlikely to provoke nostalgia (yet).

Rev inadvertently struck on something though: this kind of thing makes much more sense as a 2014 artefact in the context of scenes which hold onto 2004 for very specific reasons; what I'd call the (white) queer-homo alliance is a good example of that.

― Tim F, Sunday, November 2, 2014 1:41 PM Bookmark

yeah, this makes sense, esp considering I definitely meant the type of party where you're still guaranteed to hear Robyn

How on earth is there a Zed Bias remix of this with Pusha T on it? Like I'm kind of fascinated by the sequence of events that would lead to that record being made even if I have zero interest in actually listening to it.

New Tiga album is... actually kinda great? Bugatti is probably the worst thing on it though.

Half of it is great sadsack untrendy electro revivalism and half of it is forced wacky attempts at kitsch, some of the best and some of the worst stuff he's ever done.