Tiger Mendoza

Oxford based musician, producer and beat maker

Category: News

  • 2 new remixes for Little Red

    2 new remixes for Little Red

    If you follow on Facebook / Twitter / etc, you may already know this but Little Red’s new remix EP “Teeth, We Have” is coming out on Friday 27th November and features 2 brand new Tiger Mendoza remixes. Listen to my remix of “The Huntsman” below.

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    You can pre-order the EP (which also includes my remix of “Petals”) from Bandcamp. The band are also releasing an EP of originals on the same day called The Huntsman. I’m not on that one though but never mind.

     

  • An update

    Ok brace yourselves, this could be a long one.

    You may have noticed that there have been a few changes around the site and on various social media channels. That’s to go with the changes that there have been behind the scenes which I’ll try to explain here.

    Without going in to any ridiculous details, the “band”, if you could ever really call it that, that we once were, is no more. The reason being that for a band to be a band, there really needs to be more than 1 person involved and that’s just not the case any more. Just so we are all absolutely 100% clear, there was no big fight or anything ridiculous like that but Dan and Helena have decided to do some other things with their lives which means that they can’t do TM stuff so much any more and I genuinely couldn’t be happier for them. Seriously. It kind of goes without saying though that if the opportunity ever came up do play with either or both of them again, either separately or together I would jump on it. TM would NOT be what it is today, whatever that is, without them and they remain really, really, really good friends. They’ll be back, I’m sure. I’m just not sure when.

    So where does that leave me? Well I did consider stopping this whole silly Tiger Mendoza thing altogether but thinking about it a bit more, I just don’t want to. Why would I? I still love making music and doing gigs and it’s not like I haven’t done solo remixes and gigs in the past. So Tiger Mendoza stays, but it just needs to change shape a bit. Which I think is healthy in the long run.

    So what’s next? Well I currently have 1.5 / 2 projects that I would LOVE you to hear by the end of 2015. One is a second collection of tunes with the legendary Dave Griffiths and one is something I’ve wanted to do for a while but haven’t been able to until now. But trust me you’ll like it. Honest.

    I’m not going to pretend that we have any kind of mega huge fan base but I do appreciate all of the support that we’ve received so far. Thank You! Feel free to get in touch via Twitter, the contact page or even Instagram (Please not Facebook though, the fan page messaging is rubbish).

    There WILL be new stuff for you to listen to soon, trust me. Stay tuned.

    Cheers,

    Ian

  • Truck Store presents…Heaven Adores You

    Truck Store presents…Heaven Adores You

    I’m really happy to be playing a couple of songs before a screening of the new Elliott Smith documentary Heaven Adores You on Friday 29th May at The Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford. I am a BIG Elliott Smith smith fan so I’m genuinely pretty honoured to be playing. Also playing are the fantastic Salvation Bill and Reichenbach Falls.

    Check out the trailer below then go get tickets from here.

  • Xbox 360 Control pad + Ableton Live with Pure Data

    As some of you may know, I created an interface using GlovePIE so that I could use an Xbox 360 control pad with Ableton Live in live sets. However when I upgraded to Windows 8 a little while back, the solution didn’t work so well so I’ve been looking for a new way to do the same thing ever since. Happily, as you can see from the video bellow, I’ve managed to create something very similar with Pure Data so I thought that I would share the results.
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  • The Bring Back Big Beat Mix

    The Bring Back Big Beat Mix

    I joined Half Decent on his radio show, which goes out between 12 and 2 on Sundays on Destiny 105.1 FM. He asked me to put together a mix so I came up with this. It came out pretty good.

    Tracklist:

    1. Gun (Tiger Mendoza remix)by Chvrches
    2. Not Another Drugstore (Planet Nine Mix) by The Chemical Brothers
    3. Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix) by Wildchild
    4. Voodoo Beats by The Prodigy
    5. The White Flash (feat. Thom Yorke) by Modeselektor
    6. We Disappear by Jon Hopkins
    7. The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret by Queens of the Stone Age

    Download (25MB)

  • Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)? (For Tom O’Brien)


    This year I’ve been lucky enough to be asked to be a party DJ for Helena and Dan’s weddings and a close family friend’s birthday. Unfortunately Tom O’Brien passed away before I got the chance to DJ at his 70th birthday but I know that this was one of his favourite songs and would have definitely been on the playlist. It would mean a lot to me if could have a listen, maybe smile and share it with friends and, if you want to, send a few pennies to www.myaware.org. I’m sure that they would appreciate it.

    Cheers, Ian