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Tiga

Tiga

Sexor

(Plas)

From the first moments of this expectation-confounding set, when Montreal-born DJ/producer Tiga welcomes you 'to Planet Sexor ... where sexy lightning always strikes twice', it's clear this isn't your run-of-the-mill electro album. Best known for his electronic reinterpretations of Nelly's Hot in Herre and Corey Hart's Sunglasses at Night, Tiga infuses his debut long-player with a mixture of 1980s synth pop, campy techno, acid house and electroclash, while still finding time for offbeat covers.

The eclectic collection begins with a synthy nod to 80s electro pop in (Far From) Home before hit single You Gonna Want Me revisits the early 90s rave scene with gay abandon, sampling Altern-8's Infiltrate 202 and featuring flamboyant Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears on vocals.

Tiga then proceeds to mix and mash styles at will, holding the tracks together with a loose thread of trashy electronic beats and ladling on heavy dollops of irony and sexual ambiguity. High School/Jamaican Boa comes across like a blend of New Order and understated European techno, while Brothers recalls the Pet Shop Boys' more dance-inclined efforts. The best moments arrive in the form of Pleasure from the Bass, an infectious slice of minimal acid house, the dark-techno-meets-Italo-House of Good as Gold/Flexible Skulls and the chunky, distorted, bass-heavy beats of Weeks.

Covers of Louder Than a Bomb, which takes Public Enemy's polemic rhymes and imbues them with a deep techno bassline to great effect, and a downbeat, brooding version of Nine Inch Nails' Down in It provide a welcome change of pace, while his pulsing-house take on Talking Heads' Burning Down the House is perfectly at home on the hedonistic Planet Sexor.

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