After releasing an excellent full-length collaboration with Hudson Mohawke which came off like a surprisingly sincere tribute to everything great about dance music and club culture, Tiga seems to return to his usual bag of tricks with Hotlife, his first solo album since 2016. Like his first three efforts as a lead artist, he’s assisted by a raft of guest producers, this time including Boys Noize, Matthew Dear, Gesloten Cirkel, Paranoid London, and Priori. The 12 selections generally focus on steady electro-techno and house grooves, with Tiga’s suave vocals on top, though he seems selective about when he wants to turn his tracks into proper songs. Even when he delves into the cover versions that became his trademark early in his career, he tends to repeat…

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