tigerstyle

Having shared stages with the likes of internationally renowned artists Franz Ferdinand, The Dub Pistols, Lily Allen, Talvin Singh, Nitin Sawhney, Fun-Da-Mental, Misty of The Roots, Panjabi MC, Future World Funk, Raghav, Bobby Friction & Nihal from BBC Radio 1 and Panjabi Hit Squad of BBC 1Xtra, Tigerstyle have not only emerged as world class live performers, but have also proven to be ground-breaking producers with a plethora of official music productions for Franz Ferdinand, M.I.A., Sean Kingston, Raghav, Redman, Don Omar Gunjan, and Jay Sean, just to name a few. Coming from a traditional background where religious adherence was the call of the day and learning to play instruments from a young age so that they could perform at their local temple have now turned this young Sikh outfit into the most sought after act.
Recently signed to Nachural Records (the label that launched Panjabi MC onto the world stage and into a global hit), Tigerstyle have just released their debut album Mystics, Martyrs & Maharajas in the UK, and are currently getting ready for the worldwide release. “You’ve got two very devout Sikh Punjabis from Glasgow, who know their Bhangra music more than anybody. I mean they absolutely know their stuff. They’re young, they’re the right generation. If you listen to some of their earlier albums they were ground-breaking then. What they do and what they’ve done is, they still play the traditional stuff, but they will effortlessly fuse it into Dancehall or Hip-Hop. And the beauty of them is that they both know their genres of music……It all works together, it sounds great. And they can perform live……I think that is really interesting, really clever. We’ve still got the traditional Punjabi music. We’ve still got the element of live and it’s still taking it forward.” – Adil Ray ( BBC Asian Network UK, excerpt taken from “Bhangra” - written by Dr. Rajinder Dudrah)
Biography
Having shared stages with the likes of internationally renowned artists Franz Ferdinand, The Dub Pistols, Lily Allen, Talvin Singh, Nitin Sawhney, Fun-Da-Mental, Misty of The Roots, Panjabi MC, Future World Funk, Raghav, Bobby Friction & Nihal from BBC Radio 1 and Panjabi Hit Squad of BBC 1Xtra, Tigerstyle have not only emerged as world class live performers, but have also proven to be ground-breaking producers with a plethora of official music productions for Franz Ferdinand, M.I.A., Sean Kingston, Raghav, Redman, Don Omar Gunjan, and Jay Sean, just to name a few.
But Tigerstyle’s journey has not been an easy one. After two albums of more traditional Desi flavours, Tigerstyle got themselves into a problematic situation which left the duo unable to release material for three years. But this hiatus allowed Tigerstyle to develop their musical talents as they were asked to do white label mixes for Ms Dynamite, Busta Rhymes, Eminem and 50 Cent.
Further recognition came in the form of official remixes for other mainstream acts such as Lisa Maffia (Independiente), Lamya (J Records),and Raghav (A&R) where Tigerstyle contributed with a remix on the hit single Angel Eyes which charted at No.4 in the UK charts. Most recently they have provided remixes for Machete Music artists Luny Tunes, Wisin Y Yandel & Don Omar, and an exclusive remix of M.I.A.’s “XR2” for the BBC Asian Network.
Nachural Records also announced the placement of tracks from its catalogue onto Project Gotham Racing 3, a racing simulator on the Microsoft XBOX360 in the winter of 2005. Two tracks by Achanak (“Teri Muhabbatain” produced by Tigerstyle and the “Lak Noo” remix) and three tracks from the latest Tigerstyle album, Mystics, Martyrs & Maharajas (“Boliyan”, “Akh Mastani” and “Maan Doabe Da”) were identified as key representations of the worldwide appeal of Bhangra music. This was the first time that Bhangra tracks had been placed on any interactive game and endorsed the mainstream opinion that Bhangra had finally arrived in the ever increasing music market.
The success of Tigerstyle has taken them touring all over the world including USA, Canada, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, India, Poland, Russia, Dubai, Singapore and Australia, all in the time span of the last 4 years. Tigerstyle are one of the few Asian acts to have ever recorded a live session for the legendary late Sir John Peel. They were given the opportunity to showcase material from their, then forthcoming album, Mystics, Martyrs & Maharajas supported by a full band at the first ever BBC Radio Electric Proms in September 2006, and were selected out of thousands of bands to perform on the first ever BBC Introducing Stage at the Glastonbury Festival in July 2007. They have also performed live with Gunjan, Asian Dub Foundation, Badmarsh & Shri, Truth Hurts, Johnny Kalsi & The Dhol Foundation and Semtex.
Their Bollywood debut came in the shape of exclusive remixes of “Bas Ek Kinng” and “Bhootni Ke” under the guidance of the hit music director Pritam, on the soundtrack of the blockbuster movies of Summer 20