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My lead live review for Mixmag of Tiga's debut show with Bugged Out! at London's Koko...
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It looks like word has got out since Rüfüs Du Sol’s Los Angeles appearance a year ago, bringing an extra 500 fans to a sold-out Fonda Theater this time around. A blend of off-season Coachella-goers and Hollywood club-kids text and bob about impatiently to opener Cassian, awaiting the return of the indie house golden boys. When the lighting rig is cued and the Aussie trio finally take the stage, the room is filled with loud affirmations of summertime band crushes coming to fruition. The set is packed with new material from their forthcoming sophomore album ‘Bloom’, offering a new arc to the Rüfüs story as they depart from the strictly sun-swept styles of their breakthrough tracks. Writing music amid a Berlin winter seems to have granted the band a new depth, shown in the emotive synth work of the most well received of their new tracks, ‘Innerbloom’. And as the show tosses them into the US run of their World Tour, it’s impossible to ignore the progress of a band set for big things in 2016. CARRÉ ORENSTEIN
DAVID AUGUST @ MOVEMENT TORINO, ITALYDeep in the core of a five-room, four storey former Fiat factory, David August is at work. He made waves last year combining shivering basslines with Alfred Hitchcock scenes. Here the visuals are far more stripped back, but that doesn’t alter the sense of vertigo. The man appears as a silhouette in a blaze of white LEDs made misty by the sweat of several thousand Italians. There’s a haunting series of Eastern strings, a signature slow, almost reluctant build, then eventually a chirpy, clicking brand of kick. Heavily side- chained chords seem to come up from the floor, prompting inadvertent shoulder rolls and heads to drop down. David August is now in that zone he seeks, hunched over the mixer with a challenging, almost confrontational look, every twist, every movement bringing in yet another layer, another band of EQs floating out across what must be one of the biggest spaces in Europe. ALLY BYERS
RÜFÜS DU SOL @ FONDA THEATER, LOS ANGELES
Let’s go dancingTiga’s live debut delivers a model performance
LONDON’S GRAND KOKO theatre is hosting a special one tonight. It’s Bugged Out!, and the prospect of Tiga’s debut live show has spirited limbs swinging to the housey acid squelch of much- loved warm-up artists Paranoid London. It’s a huge venue to sell out: a beautiful theatre, with multiple red and gold layers, creating a 3D dancefloor that’s packed to the rafters.
On stage, Tiga, the Turbo Recordings head honcho who’s signed to Ninja Tune rock imprint Counter for the release of his new album, stands amid all sorts of mixers, mics and effects gizmos. He’s
pop star debonair in a white shirt, singing over wave after wave of catchy riffs and infectious basslines, the crowd lapping up everything from opener ‘808Iraq’ through ‘Bugatti’, ‘Let’s Go Dancing’, ‘Mind Dimension’, ‘Shoes’, ‘Sunglasses At Night’ and the deep echo bass of new single ‘Don’t Break My Heart’, as Vice City-style visuals from design collective Pfadfinderai suck everyone into an 8 bit arcade machine. When Tiga stepped out of the DJ booth and into the live arena, he said he wanted to create “something that entertains for an hour rather than just
smashes people over the head with lights”. He’s achieved that.
And he’s the first to admit that it’s a team effort. Next to him stands long- term partner in crime Jori Hulkkonen, who as Tiga says, “plays synths, adds basslines, does percussion, back-up vocals and crucially tells me I look good before we go on stage.” As good, perhaps, as the three mannequin backing singers that were wheeled out earlier, which, for Tiga, tick all the right boxes: “They’re perfect: don’t have to eat. Don’t talk back. Stay on key. And look dynamite.” Model employees – in every sense. PHIL DUDMAN
clubland’s fiercest live shows
TIGA @ KOKO, LONDON
They’ll be
releasing new
music later
this year, but first
Massive Attack will embark on a huge European
tour kicking off at the
Olympia Theatre, Dublin on
January 19 and closing at
Zenith, Paris on February
26 with Ninja Tune’s
Young Fathers supporting all dates ... It’s a busy
month for Shackleton, playing live at Paris’s
Concrete on January 22
then alongside Scuba at London’s XOYO on January
23 ... Childhood friends
Richard Roberts and Andy
Harber aka Letherette play live in support of
Com Truise’s headline show at London’s Koko on January
23 ... Kompakt favourites
Saschienne (Sascha Funke and Julienne), deliver
live techno vibes to
Berlin’s Kosmonaut on
February 12 ... Leftfield get set to blast Calais
Estate in Rothbury,
Australia on February 20
... Don’t miss Paranoid London live at Fabric, London on the same night.MASSIVE ATTACK
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