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  • New album: NOT A GAME

    New album: NOT A GAME

    The NOT A GAME album cover in all of it's c64 anti-AI glory

    Tiger Mendoza is proud to present our latest album NOT A GAME which will be coming out on Friday 24th October 2025. Coming in a tight 7 tracks, it’s our attempt to process what’s happening around us all touching on the unavoidable impact of AI, the increase in (mis)information, confusing fact with opinion and, obviously, a need to make beats.

    This is the first time that longtime TM member / ace guitarist Dan Clear has featured on all of the tracks of a TM release. Also we’re really happy to have our good friends Octavia Freud and Helen Pearson return to help out alongside Mark Restructure who you may remember from the TM remix of Restructure’s Antisocial Media which featured on TMSk8. The album also sees the return of original Tiger Mendoza singer Helena Markou for the first new track we’ve made together in over 10 years.

    Here’s the tracklist:

    1. The Puzzle Is The Point (feat. Digging The Greats)
    2. Conscious Of Time
    3. The Message Too (feat. Mark Restructure)
    4. Electric Blue (feat. Helena Markou)
    5. You’re Forgiven (feat. Octavia Freud)
    6. Stalagmite (feat. Helen Pearson)
    7. Anybody Can Make A Statement

    The deluxe Bandcamp edition also includes the following bonus tracks:

    1. Electric Blue (Instrumental)
    2. You’re Forgiven (Instrumental)
    3. Stalagmite (Instrumental)
    4. The Puzzle Is The Point (Pitchdrop Remix)

    The album is available to pre-order now on limited edition CD, Minidisc as well as standard digital download.

    Pre-order on Bandcamp

    Pre-save on streaming platforms

    (note: this album will NOT be coming to Spotify)

  • DJ Set: Super Saturday (14th June 2025)

    DJ Set: Super Saturday (14th June 2025)

    The 2nd of 2 DJ gigs in June – Due to some (ahem) technical issues, my original slot didn’t happen so I ended up doing 3 mini sets instead. 2 were kind of breaks and beats based and 1 was random rock stuff because why not? Big thanks to Osprey and Darren for setting the whole thing up. Tracklistings after the jump

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  • DJ Set: Live at the O2 Academy, Oxford 6th June 2025

    DJ Set: Live at the O2 Academy, Oxford 6th June 2025

    This was a bit of a last minute gig but it was a fun one to do. I have to admit I was a bit nervous so it’s a little rough around the edges. But people were dancing, and at the end of the day, that’s all that matters, right? Also it was fun to try out some new stuff on the O2’s rig.

    Massive thanks to Daft Funk and Academy Events for having me!

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  • Live Well For Less (TM v KK)

    Live Well For Less (TM v KK)

    Live Well For Less cover art

    The response to our single Live Well for Less with our friends Killer Kowalski has been amazing! I may have got the dates wrong on the release and put it out 2 months early but honestly I think it worked out for the best. If you haven’t heard it yet here’s some links to stream or download it:

    Don’t forget if you want to create your own remix, you can download the stems from here

    We had an amazing night at the single’s official launch night at The Library in Oxford with our friends from All Will Be Well. LWFL got it’s live debut and Tom from KK joined us on lead vocals. A big shout out to Old Man May and Manners for joining us as well. Here’s some photos from the night by the amazing Ian Hanham.

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    In case you’re wondering, the cover art was made using a kind of janky mod I made of Streets of Rage Remake. I’m wondering whether or not I should make the mod available as a download. If you’re interested let me know.

  • DJ Mix: Brewers Night Off Halloween Party mix (27th Oct 2023)

    DJ Mix: Brewers Night Off Halloween Party mix (27th Oct 2023)

    BNO Selfie Oct 23

    I have to say I bloody love DJing at the Tap Social Taproom! I’ve been lucky enough to play there a few times now and it’s always a fun place to play, with a great team and an open minded audience that are generally happy to listen to me play what I like and boogie along. A big thank you to Brewers’ Night Off team (aka DJ Bobby Demons and Brewer Bolger) for letting me join in again and to the Shut The Door Kru for showing me how it’s done! My mix was a little rough around the edges but still a fun set to do. Tracklisting below:

    • The Chemical Brothers – Loops of Fury
    • Adamski Feat. Seal – Killer
    • Felix da Housecat – Silver Screen Shower Scene [Emperor Norton]
    • Orbital – Satan (30 Something Years Later Mix)
    • TM – Missy vs Elastica (TM Edit)
    • Spanky Wilson – Sunshine of My Love (XS 2020 edit)
    • The Prodigy – The Way It Is [Sony]
    • Vincent Price – Voice-Over Session from Thriller
    • Aphex Twin – Run Jeremy’s Window Licker (X-Rated Lick)
    • Mekon feat. Roxanne Shanté – What’s Going On? [Wall of Sound]
    • Rage Against The Machine – Renegades (TM Stretch)
    • Wildchild – Renegade Master 98 (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix)
    • Noisia – Split The Atom
    • Marie Davidson – Work It (Soulwax Remix)
    • Riton – Let’s Stick Around (Feat. Jarvis Cocker)
    • Fred again.., Skrillex, Four Tet – Baby again..
    • Daft Punk – Technologic
    • Ne-Yo – Closer (StoneBridge Club Remix)
    • Mylo – Doctor Pressure (Dirty Radio Edit)
    • The Stone Roses – Fools Gold (Grooverider’s Mix)
    • Bicep vs Rui Da Silva – Touch My Glue (@Djjaycarpenter Mashup)
    • Tiger Mendoza – Battery
    • Tiga & Zyntherius – Blue Sunglasses (The Tom Middleton Cosmos Re-Edit)
    • TSHA Clementine Douglas – Dancing In The Shadows
    • David Holmes – Radio 7
  • Vangelis – A Tribute

    Vangelis – A Tribute

    I first discovered Blade Runner via my dad. He’s a massive fan of the film and the incredible score that accompanied it. It’s fair enough really – the powerful combination of the imagery of the film and Vangelis’ synth driven score is still mind bending today let alone when the film was released in 1982. Add to that the mystery around the film and the soundtrack itself (which wasn’t released until 1994) make it something very special to music and film lovers and geeks like me.

    When I found out that Vangelis died it hit pretty hard but I’m not really sure why. I don’t really own much of his music to be honest. He was 79, a fair age. He did many other film score like Chariots of Fire (which I think I have a 7inch of somwehere) and 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and released many solo albums and albums with Jon and Vangelis and Aphrodite’s Child but really for me it all comes back to Blade Runner.

    The video below is my little tribute to Vangelis’s Blade Runner score; recorded quickly using Ableton live, the drums are 808 samples and all of the synths and bass are care of the amazing Arminator 2 plugin, arguably the best Yamaha CS80 emulator you’re likely the use. There’s a small nod to the pulsing noise from Chariots of Fire too if you listen closely. The lead synth was recorded using the midi pickup fitted to my SG which worked pretty nicely.

    You can download the audio below too.

    RIP Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou aka Vangelis. Thank you for everything you did.