In the thick of an electroclash revival, the Canadian producer who lived through its origins is making his big return to the scene.
The spacetime of electronic music has finally folded in, and the Montreal producer Tiga Sontag has gone ahead and carved a wormhole there. Now 51, the man who first made a name for himself as a remix workhorse and rave organizer has been able to follow for three decades all the mutations of electroclash, from bloghouse to the pompous revival led by Charli XCX and The Dare and, more recently, by Frost Children or Fcukers.
He therefore returns in a genre in which he helped define some of its aesthetic codes: eighties retro-futurism, absurd and/or shamelessly sexual lyrics, all paired with a certain sense of detachment.
Renouer avec les qualités premières du genre
If he has shed much of the sensuality that oozed from his first album (, 2006) and despite a hilariously bold opening track (Hot Wife, with Boys Noize), Hotlife is a precipitate of history in electronic music (and unforgettable basslines).
Here you’ll encounter as well old friends like Boys Noize as Montreal newcomers Priori and Patrick Holland or the New York duo Fcukers. Shared with the latter, the single Silk Scarf is the perfect example of what’s at stake on this fourth album: reconnecting with the genre’s primary qualities as it approaches its 30th anniversary.
Hotlife (Secret City Records & Turbo Recordings/Modulor). Release on April 17.
