Safari - Tiger Stripes

Safari

Tiger Stripes [Nite Grooves]

#11 in this month's The 20

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: The 20: nite grooves soulful house tiger stripes

Tiger Stripes aka Mikael Nordgren from Sweden has been into music since the age of ten, and clearly his music has benefited greatly from his background in piano, drums, bass and guitar. Here on his debut full-length album ‘Safari’ he pushes the boundaries of electronic music and house by fusing multiple genres and by including lots of exciting live instrumentation and drums.

Sounding like a rave in the jungle, he concocts a whole tribe of different rhythms from deep house and soulful techno to jazzy broken beat and trancey progressive house.

It’s a house rainforest, full of life and different colours.

On ‘Song For Edit’ he creates a summery saxophone-led soulful house track with deep house producer Kerri Chandler and similarly his collaboration with Hanna Hais features sexy Latino beats and poptastic female vocals.

Away from the light, Tiger Stripes explores minimal trance with ‘Spacious Mind’ which would have sounded totally out of place on a typical house album, but then, ‘Safari’ is not a typical house album at all.

‘Amphytrion’ is pounding Detroit techno with progressive house influences, and Tiger Stripes even gets his glow sticks out for the trance kids on ‘People I Know’.

There’s a real global sound about this LP, stretching from the streets of South America to the superclubs of the US to the industrial bars of Berlin.

The album has real crossover potential.

It’s probably not the best house album of the year, but it’s certainly the most varied.

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