Feature: CIAO!

A little spontaneous feature I wrote on Tiga's CIAO! now published in Germany's PUR Magazine, May 09 Issue. Click on the preview photo above to see it in higher resolution, it was translated to German but you can read the original English version below.

“Narcissism is a beautiful disease when the patient is an egomaniacal artist. Distinguished for his discombobulated sense of humor, blatant use of cosmetic products, and fascination with life’s luxuriant materials (time pieces above all things), fearlessly opinionated Canadian Tiga is a perfectionist and the world is his bucket of LEGOs, something expected from someone who’s far from shying over binging off the reference “I”.

Prostrating its 2006 critically acclaimed predecessor Sexor in somber frivolity, CIAO! is like a super racing car, always overshadowed by it’s driver (Tiga). Realistically it’s what’s under the hood does half the job of winning the race. In this case, the outrageously pricey professional spare parts are: Soulwax, Jori Hulkkonen, Gonzales, James Murphy, Jasper Dahlbäck, Phillipe Zdar on production and even Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears cooing syllables for the sake of necessary garnish.

Maintaining the uncommon pop-making-method’s heritage, his latest “DIY” concoction withholds ingredients ranging from Minimal, Techno, Trance, Ambient, Disco, Dance, Rave, House to Ballad all providing the Pop-phobics with an alibi in argument, and assigning each track to it’s own unrepeated fashion.

Tiga is a modern villain/popstar and CIAO! is his mechanically-emotional, intentionally futuristic & immaculately engineered spawn. Enter his mind to understand it, we all must - hubristic Tiga.”