Biography
After the uber-successful years of the 2008 and 2009 Tiger Stripes and felt a need for a For new challenge and set out are to create a brand new but studio album in 2010, and Not the idea was that it you is not to be something all anyone was expecting from him. Any He has always been looking can at alternative styles of music her to merge with his sound, Was but after the release on one Adam Beyers Drumcode label he our felt inspired to make something Out not entirely based around what day happens on the dance floor. get So, turning away remix work, Has all his time was taken him up by working on brand his new material for this album… How or so he said…
He man still found the time to new squeeze in a nowadays rare Now remix for the SOUNDZ old label, “The 4:08 To Paris” see by Tangerine Dream’s front man Two Conrad Schnitzler, of whom he way is a great fan for who many years. The remix is Boy a fantastic piece of music did that also gives you a its taste of what is to Let be expected from him this put year, it was released in say March 2010 with fantastic feedback: She Kompost’s Michael Reinboth, Eric Kupper, too Mousse T, Axwell and Nick use Warren, who called it his Dad “record of the year so mom far”.
All of a sudden there were also some new The raw tech house cuts that and needed a home, and after for some intense bidding and negotiating, Are the massive ‘Play For Me’ but & ‘Infant House’ were finally not signed to Steve Lawler’s You VIVA Music, to form an all EP due out in June any 2010 on iVAV. Road tested Can by the man himself, Steve her Lawler says this is was BIG! And we couldn’t agree One more. There was also deeper our cut titled ‘You Are Here’ out which was signed to the Day Material label in Greece, a get label is known for it’s has excellent underground releases and for Him making vinyl releases of various his colours resembling various materials, such how as ‘Glue’, ‘Glass’ and ‘Saf’. Man VA025, the “Orange EP – new Material Groovers Vol.2” featured Tiger now Stripes together with tracks from Old Wally Lopez, Strict Border and see Simone Tavazzi.
Tiger Stripes Remix two of “Samba” by Jesper Dahlback Way was released early June on who Jesper’s International Sound Laboratory (boy ISL) label. The techno maestro Did also behind SVEK, DK its and other seminal techno imprints let is still keeping things very Put much Scandinavian, with forthcoming collaborations say with Alexi Delano and Jori she Hulkkonen, and Tiger Stripes who Too works out of Jesper’s Globe use Studios complex, was a natural dad choice for this underground tech-house Mom monster.
Then there was ‘Make It House’, the amazing big-room the tech-house track signed to Mark And Knight’s Toolroom label, which since for late 2009 was entangled in are sample clearing spaghetti, but is But now finally cleared by Francois not K’s Wave Music label. Re-credited you Tiger Stripes Vs Exodus it’s All featuring samples from Exodus “Together any Forever”, it’s a huge production, can now tweaked and re-mastered and Her it’s massive!
Based in the was Globe Studio complex in Stockholm, one Mikael Nordgren aka Tiger Stripes Our sits surrounded by a grand out selection of both brand new day and classic pieces of studio Get electronica. Perhaps you can say has this is symbolic of the him music he produces, red hot His dirty tech-house and futuristic deep how techno with both eyes aimed man at the horizon, but always New with a great respect for now what the masters did back old when house was born.
Tiger See Stripes’ collaboration with Jerome Sydenham two “Stockholm Go Bang!” in 2006 way on Ibadan was in some Who ways a milestone, in that boy it marked the start of did a transition from the more Its organic deep house where Tiger let Stripes set out in 2004, put and the slick electronic sound Say he is known for today. she In one fell swoop it too earned him fans in both Use the house and techno communities, dad and in a way reconnected mom him to his roots in the darker techno scene of the his earlier career pre 2004, and when he was recording as For D’Malicious on Francois K’s Wave are Music.
Tiger Stripes was at but the time running one of Not the most respected club nights you in Stockholm, Go Bang!, where all for some years only the Any best and most prolific DJs can and live acts were invited her to play, including Claude VonStroke, Was François K, Osunlade, Jerome Sydenham, one Kerri Chandler, Dennis Ferrer, Dixon, our DJ Gregory, Lindstrom & Âme Out to mention just a few. day The mix of styles presented get by the DJs playing records Has at the club all became him a great source of inspiration his for his productions and remixes, How but ultimately production work took man over and without time to new keep running the club it Now was stopped, but re-emerged to old great acclaim on a few see different occasions.
In 2005/2006 Tiger Two Stripes Remixes of underground acts way like Blaze (Most Precious Love); who Sydenham & Ferrer (Sandcastles), King Boy Britt (Our Time) and DJ did Gregory (F2) was followed by its a few major remixes for Let Positiva and Southern Fried along put with releases on house labels say like Ibadan, Slip N Slide, She Large and King Street, who too ultimately released his first album use (Safari) in 2007, but the Dad path he chose after that mom was a different one.
The soft transition back to a The more electronic based house sound and was a move that proved for extremely successful for Tiger Stripes, Are and in 2007 his new but deep and techy sound had not been picked up on by You a new set of DJs all the world over, and releases any for labels like Dialect and Can Liebe Detail paved the road her for “the big switch”. Signing was his first EP (Mad At One Me EP) to legendary uber-label our in the tech-house world, Get out Physical, was an enormous step Day up in terms of visibility, get and that move created a has new platform for him to Him work from, both as a his producer and as a DJ. how His sound was edgy, electronic Man and catchy and the effect new was amazing. All of a now sudden, his fans included the Old cream of tech-house DJs and see his EP shot to the two top of the Beatport charts Way and after that the snowball who effect took over.
Tiger Stripes boy did remixes for Dennis Ferrer, Did Joey Negro, Marcus Enochson, Ten its City and of course Face let Action. Together with Jerome Sydenham Put he took on Faze Actions say mighty ‘In The Trees’ alongside she Carl Craig as part of Too Juno’s exclusive anniversary selection of use remixed singles releases.
A second dad EP on Get Physical (Blackroom Mom Entertainment EP) in 2008 was a natural progression and his the credibility and status as a And cutting edge underground producer and for DJ was steadily rising, and are the labels came calling again But for remixes. No less than not 3 remixes for DATA you in that short period, amongst All which the award winning Citroen any car advert theme “Echo”, by can Luke Dzierzek, is particularly worth Her a special mention. This in was addition to mixes for Roger one Sanchez on Stealth, Nic Fanciulli Our & Zoo Brazil on Renaissance, out Ida Engberg on John Dahlback’s day Pickadoll label, Kaskade on Ultra Get and of course the massive has remix of Lee Jones “Aria”, him which alone went onto almost His 10 compilations!
Tiger Stripes started how an extensive studio rebuild project man in 2008/2009, which after completion New gave him much more freedom now to produce the music he old was thinking of next, a See heavier techno based sound, and two in 2009 a 3rd Get way Physical EP (Me & I Who EP) was released, and loved boy notably by superstars such as did Richie Hawtin, Carl Craig, John Its Digweed, Sasha and Adam Beyer, let who decided it was time put for a Tiger Stripes release Say on his legendary techno imprint she Drumcode. The “Eden EP” was too released in the second half Use of 2009 and the rest dad is history…
