On Intagram, Tiga shared an image of him and Atkins with a five-minute voice note recounting the night Tiga saw Atkins play a set that he says did nothing less than alter his approach to electronic music.
“On December 31st, 1994 — New Year’s Eve — I was booked to play a party called Heaven in New York. I think it was actually in Queens. It was a big rave, 7,000 people. It was a huge deal at the time, and definitely a huge deal for me, because that was one of the first times I’d left Montreal to DJ at a big party.
“I played early — around 11 to midnight — and through some coincidence, Juan…





