Tiga

He’s a one-person portal into rave history: childhood mornings at Goa beach parties, teenage years in Montreal throwing Canada’s first proper rave, a run of records that helped define the electroclash era and collabs with everyone from Hudson Mohawke to FCUKERS. I sat down with Tiga to follow that thread from cassettes and sunrise dancing to global club circuits and a new album that’s unapologetically his. We talk about what it meant when house and techno first landed like a cultural shock and how a “punk spirit” can live inside electronic music. Tiga also gets specific about craft: why playfulness belongs in dance music but humour can destroy the trance, and why he once said real DJing is like stand-up comedy. Along the way we chew on DJ technique, set pacing, reading a room, and the strange relationship between performer confidence and crowd response. Then the conversation turns personal. Tiga describes “vibe fog” as his shorthand for the brutal reality of long COVID and the slow return of basic function and creative joy. We connect that recovery to making new work, including his INXS “Need You Tonight” rework, and to how flow state behind the decks has changed from vinyl intensity to today’s faster, bigger, more concert-like parties. If you enjoy Lost and Sound and want to help keep it thriving, the best way to support is simple:

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Tiga is an episode from Lost And Sound by Paul Hanford.

This episode is 52:41 long.

This episode was published on Mar 31, 2026.

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