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New Tiger Shark album out now: "Singles Ready to Mingle: The First Quarter Century"

My first album release, “Singles Ready to Mingle: The First Quarter Century”, is out now on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, and all other major streaming services

The 24 tracks are a compilation of Tiger Shark songs from 1996-2021. Lotsa hard shit, funky shit, random shit. Please enjoy. And play it loud with the bass up.

Listen now and read about the tracks below:

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Highlights:

  • “THUGS”, a bass-heavy thumper produced in the middle of the COVID-19 lockdown, at the height of Black Lives Matter protests across the country, and during the depths of the Trump 2020 reelection campaign

  • “Only (Tiger Shark’s Null Mix)”, a drum ‘n’ bass take on the Nine Inch Nails track

  • “She’s Lost Control”, a cover of the Joy Division song, and the first track I ever used my own vocals on without using a vocoder

Major props to Public Enemy / The Bomb Squad, Kevin Martin / The Bug, Trent Reznor / Nine Inch Nails, Meat Beat Manifesto / Jack Dangers, Delta 9, Lords of Acid, Alec Empire / Atari Teenage Riot / Digital Hardcore Recordings, and Rick Rubin for inspiring me to create these songs.

Track listing and info:

  1. THUGS (2020): Produced during the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, with a title courtesy of the United States' Dear Leader during that time period.

    I was listening to a lot of The Bug that summer. Follow him on social—he’s a rad, down to earth dude who produces some of the most ominous, subwoofer destroying music I’ve ever heard.

    Read more about this track.

  2. Treason & Coconuts (2021): Based on a line from "The Handmaid's Tale" and produced during The Orange One's clusterfuck of a run up to the 2020 election.

    Read more about this track.

  3. She’s Lost Control (2020): My first cover, and the first song I’ve sung on without vocoder, so you can actually hear my voice. Take that for what it’s worth.

    Read more about this track.

  4. Virunga (2016): Based on the documentary about gorillas and people in conflict in the Congo.

    I produced this in part to promote Project XTNCT, a clothing company through which I sold designs featuring endangered animals that were limited to the number of those animals left on the planet.

    Read more about this track.

  5. Pride (2016): With a tweaked-out Lion King sample, this is based on how humans are slaughtering lions and pushing them to the bring of extinction.

    Also a Project XTNCT promotional track.

    Read more about this track.

  6. My Pit Bull (2012): Pit Bulls are awesome. So is Public Enemy—The Bomb Squad is my biggest musical influence.

    Read more about this track.

  7. Cougar Hunt (2012): Not about looking for older single ladies.

    Read more about this track.

  8. Sledgehammer (2006): Produced this in 5.1 surround sound, with accompanying 3D headphone video, as part of my capstone project for grad school.

  9. Only (Tiger Shark's Null Mix) (2006): Trent Reznor encouraged people to remix this amazing NIN track by making the stems publicly available, and I got to do this drum ‘n’ bass banger as a class project.
    I based it on my d’n’b heroes of the late ‘90’s and early aughts: Ed Rush and Optical, Andy C, Ram Trilogy, Dieselboy, Dillinja and Lemon D.

  10. One Voice (2006)

  11. Whirlwind (2006): I tried to make a pop song, heavily influenced by The Neptunes and Kelis. Featuring vocalist Annie Steele.

  12. The Ignorants (2006): Produced in 5.1 surround sound as a project for grad school. I was (and still am) heavily influenced by Adbusters Magazine, and I used some of their videos (including one with a super fat pig bursting forth from a map of the U.S.) as the visuals for this song, with plenty of military jets dropping bombs.

  13. Higher Education (2006): Produced alongside an animated video featuring hundreds of doodles from my college notebooks.

  14. The Seven Deadly Synths (2006): Produced for a music theory class in college. I was psyched that all of their MIDI equipment synced properly because I always had a hell of a time with that shit back in the day.

  15. The Sunburn (2005): I got horribly sun burnt as a dumb young kid so decided to make a song and video about the experience as a dumb older kid.

  16. Ducks (2005)

  17. Trio (2005)

  18. Street Racing (2005): Produced with a video game like Gran Turismo or Grand Theft Auto in mind.

  19. Haunted Cave (2005): I’d love to produce a soundtrack for a horror movie one day.

  20. Hash (2003)

  21. Documentary (2005)

  22. Bombast* (1997): One of the first tracks I ever produced. I was basically trying to be Delta 9, a hardcore techno / gabber producer from Chicago whom I idolized.

  23. Shot to the Head* (1999): Trying to do my best Alec Empire / Digital Hardcore Recordings-style production in the late '90's.

  24. Kuffed* (1996): My first track, from back in '96. I think I made it on the old Acid software. Trying to do some Lords of Acid / Praga Khan / Alec Empire / Atari Teenage Riot / Digital Hardcore Recordings / Delta 9 / gabber / hardcore techno shit.

*Pardon the explicit lyrics: These songs came from the mind of a typical American teenage boy.