Tigerhead

Tigerhead grew up in an isolated town in Bohemia, in the Czech Republic, and moved to Berlin as a teenager, somewhere around eighteen or nineteen, to chase music and art rather than any fixed career plan. Nearly two decades on, she has built a reputation as one of the city's committed vinyl-only DJs, someone whose sets are stitched together from records rather than a laptop, playing rooms from Berghain to Griessmühle to smaller, purist-minded clubs across Europe.

From Bohemia to Berlin's Booths

Tigerhead was raised around art rather than music specifically. Her father worked as a painter and book illustrator and her mother helped run a gallery, and as a teenager she played in bands influenced by Peaches and Le Tigre before turning toward DJing and record collecting. She has said she learned to mix on vinyl while still at university, a skill that has stayed central to her identity as a DJ ever since; where many of her peers moved toward digital sets years ago, she has kept building her reputation on crates of records and the discipline that format demands.

That discipline has carried her into some of Berlin's most selective rooms, including Berghain, Griessmühle and ://about blank, plus international bookings such as London's Fold and the Awakenings festival circuit. Her sets, according to Crack Magazine, tend to open with a leftfield mix of acid and electro before settling into material catered more directly to the purist tastes of Berlin's techno crowd, described elsewhere as heavy and uncompromising, at times threaded with her own spoken monologues over the mix.

Labels and Releases

Tigerhead's production career began on Killekill, the Berlin label where her early track "Epilog" appeared on the "Killekill Megahits III" compilation in 2018, and she has released steadily since through HET Records, whose 2021 "Silk Road" EP came with a remix from Matrixxman, along with EXHALE and Keyi Magazine, the label and media outlet that has put out several of her singles, including "Who Is the Wildcat" at the end of 2024.

Her highest-profile release to date arrived in July 2024, when she debuted on BPitch Control, the Berlin label co-founded by Ellen Allien, with the three-track "Please Remain Calm" EP. All the vocals on the record are her own, recorded in single takes to keep them raw rather than polished, and the EP leans further into the vocal-driven, hedonistic side of her sound than her earlier, more strictly functional techno releases.

Live at RTS.FM

Tigerhead's connection to RTS.FM comes from a vinyl DJ set recorded at Oye Records in Berlin for RTS.FM Berlin, capturing her in her element behind a crate of records rather than a controller.

Boiler Room and Wider Recognition

Tigerhead made her Boiler Room debut in 2017 at Krake Festival and returned for a second set in Zurich in 2021, part of a run of livestream and festival appearances that also includes broadcasts for Arte and United We Stream. She is also known for a HÖR Berlin set that has become one of the platform's most-watched livestreams, reported in the millions of views, though exact figures vary by source and shouldn't be treated as a fixed number.

FAQ

Who is Tigerhead?

Tigerhead is a techno DJ and producer originally from an isolated town in Bohemia, Czech Republic, based in Berlin since her teenage years, known for vinyl-only sets and releases on labels including Killekill, HET Records and BPitch Control.

Is Tigerhead a vinyl-only DJ?

Yes. She has spoken about learning to mix on vinyl at university and has built her reputation on record-based sets rather than digital ones, a defining part of her identity as a DJ in Berlin's techno scene.

What is Tigerhead's connection to BPitch Control?

She made her BPitch Control debut in July 2024 with the "Please Remain Calm" EP, a three-track release featuring her own self-recorded vocals, one of her most high-profile releases to date.

Has Tigerhead played Boiler Room?

Yes, twice. She debuted at Krake Festival's Boiler Room stream in 2017 and returned for a second set in Zurich in 2021.

Has Tigerhead performed at RTS.FM?

Yes. RTS.FM's archive includes a vinyl DJ set she recorded at Oye Records in Berlin for RTS.FM Berlin on November 13, 2018.