First Night of Igloofest 2025: Tali Rose and Michael Bibi’s Party

by Félicité Couëlle-Brunet

It’s 8:30 p.m. and everyone is eagerly awaiting the London producer and DJ at the Sapporo Stage. Joy and good humor reign over a rhythmic beat brought to us by our entourage dressed in matching winter suits for an evening of festivities.

We’ve been bopping along to Tali Rose’s melodious indie-house beats for a while now. The rhythm is good, the dance is organic and the house is progressive. Little by little, people start to go into a trance as the Montreal DJ gradually increases the frequencies of her melodies, until we’re dancing to an almost tribal tune to set the scene for her colleague’s entrance.

Michael Bibi is quick to introduce an assertive house dimension to the evening, bringing the crowd to its feet. It’s from this point on that you feel like you’ve travelled back to the 2010s dance-pop style, thanks to a crowd of upbeat dancers on up-beat melodies. Bibi regularly emphasizes his lifelong love of the blues and jazz scene, and this is evident in his samples of songs remixed with tech-house. At the end of three hours of excitement in the snow, the evening comes to a close with the electro deep-house classic “Pump Up The Jam”, which breathes new energy into the very end of the evening. The good energy stays with us – the first night of Igloofest 2025 has been one of celebration.

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