Swedish DJ Mikael Nordgren aka Tiger Stripes started his venture into music at tender age of 10. Early on he learned to play a variety of instruments including bass, guitar, drums and piano. Heavily fascinated and triggered by the house music boom that eventually had reached Sweden in the late 80s, his first steps as a song writer were heavily inspired by the sounds of Inner City and S´Express. At the same time he also discovered the funky soul and jazz sounds and these are all influences that still can be heard in his eclectic approach on dance music.
Nowadays Mikael is based in Stockholm and recording under his aliases Tiger Stripes, D´Malicious and 12th Floor. This gives Mikael the opportunity to release stuff ranging from heavy tech house sounds to percussive afro house.
His first release as Tiger Stripes was in 2004 when he released the afro-tastic piano driven house stomper ‘Dingo’, on Slip’N’Slide and after that followed releases on top quality labels around the world, like Ibadan, Get Physical, King Street, Slip´n`Slide, Southern Fried and Positiva to name a few.
This wasn’t his first venture into the world of house, as D’Malicious he was responsible for the classic techno 12”, “Dark Tradition” on Francois K’s Wave Music, that earned him fans such as Jerome Sydenham, Dennis Ferrer & Carl Craig amongst others.. and he’s now finishing off a new album for them. There are also talks about a further album project with a prominent house label in the near future, as well as a forthcoming Mix CD compilation!
Tiger Stripes created quite a stir after remixing huge tracks like DJ Gregory’s “S2” on Faya Combo (now signed to Defected); Red’s “Release The Pressure” for Southern Fried; Red Carpet’s “Alright” on Positiva, as well as remixes of house favourites ‘Most Precious Love’ by Blaze; Sydenham & Ferrer’s “Sandcastles” & “Our Time” by King Britt.
A lot of people might also recognise him as one of the masterminds behind ‘Stockholm-Go Bang!’, a collaboration with Jerome ‘Sandcastles’ Sydenham, that came out on Ibadan last year and was a favourite with both house and techno heads all over the world and his subsequent solo releases on Ibadan (The Vulture, Sun Watcher etc) have been in the boxes of all key tastemakers over the past couple of years.
Lately Tiger Stripes has been busy finishing his first studio album for King Street which will be released this winter, following a few select 12” releases earlier this year.
There are several exciting projects in the pipeline for the rest of 2009 so watch this space you will be hearing a lot more from this Swede
Besides producing, Mikael´s also been running Sweden´s premier house club Go Bang! since the autumn of 2001. Inviting DJ´s such as François K, Kerri Chandler, DJ Gregory, Dennis Ferrer, Lindstrom, Ame, Claude VonStroke, Martin Landsky, Rolando, Osunlade, Maurice Fulton, Dixon etc he has provided the ever growing Swedish house community with pure quality sounds.
As a DJ Mikael has traveled all around the world and played crowds up to 10.000 people and classic clubs like Tokyo’s Yellow and now Derry’s Red Rooms.
TIGER STRIPES plays Red Rooms this Saturday 16th May. Doors open at 9pm. Admission is £5 / £7. For more info on Tiger Stripes visit www.myspace.com/mikaelnordgren
As always the weekend starts on Thursday at Red Rooms with Pop Mental. Two Rooms of music led by Red Rooms resident DJs Paco & DaCosta in the main room playing you a mix of Chart, RnB, Dance, Indie and anything you can think off that will get you dancing. And in the back room providing the musical delights is DJs Paul Rooney and That Boy Green. Admission is free before 11pm. For more information on all events visit www.redroomsderry.co.uk
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