Rudi Zygadlo is a Scottish singer, songwriter, composer and producer doing his best to create the sound of the future with his idiosyncratic take on all things electronic.
Beginning life as a more straight up dubstep and computer music producer (check debut LP Great Western Laymen on Planet Mu from 2010), Rudi has metamorphosed into a genuine auteur via a second LP and stint at Red Bull Music Academy.
He’s now using a huge musical palette to paint his music, full of hypercolour, tropical rhythms and weird pop textures and showing off time spent in Glasgow, Berlin and now London.
Now with releases on Mad Decent and his latest moment - the ace Sympathies Scrapbook - he’s using more eighties pop rushes than ever before, mixing them with ace melodies and oddball production. It’s for fans of the PC Music of Sophie and AC Cook but turn it over and there's great pop songwriting beating beneath the cleverness … get to know him in our 30 seconds below…
I first started writing music because…
I inherited an enthusiasm for it. I was encouraged. I also had the means, albeit primitive, to do it. Everyone has the means.
I have been making music since…
In some form or other, I’ve been making music since I was in primary school; learning the guitar. But I first started dabbling with computer music in my early teens and only since around 2008-2009 did I really start finishing tunes and developing a ‘sound’ so to speak.
My music is…
Many things. Fairly positive in tone at the moment. If my last album was ‘introspective’, then the next is quite the opposite. Working title is ‘The importance of not being Ernest’.
It’s a series of mischievous songs dealing with technology, love in the technological age, childhood traumas. If there is any sincerity in the lyrics, it is masked by quite upbeat productions. I think I may have been slightly inspired by PC Music in that sense. But there are a lot of adventurous flights of fancy which continue where the last body of work left off. Baroque like textures, progy jazz fusion escapades, eighties Jean Michelle Jarre and nineties r’n’b stylings served up in some jagged kinda pop vessel.
You'll like my music if you listen to...
The genres mentioned above. Pop music and electronica?
My favourite venue is…
Meat Factory, Prague. It’s a converted abattoir? A venue and artist studio complex, set up by the artist David Cerny.
Music is important because…
If you’re listening to music, you’re less likely to be making war or offending people.
My biggest inspiration is…
Music n books.
My dream collaboration would be…
With Cut Tongues theatre group. The dream is a reality. We are currently cutting our first film. A 15 minute extended music video extravaganza with a cast of 30 actors. Its takes place somewhere in the vicinity of Hackney Marshes and purports to tell stories of Eric Satie, both archaic and science fictional sports and the tumultuous nature of love.
To try me out, listen to my song…
Sympathies Scrapbook.
If I wasn’t making music I’d be…
Making muzak.
In 10 years’ time I want to be...
An intergalactic success story.
https://www.facebook.com/zygadlomusic
http://www.twitter.com/rudyzygadlo
Beginning life as a more straight up dubstep and computer music producer (check debut LP Great Western Laymen on Planet Mu from 2010), Rudi has metamorphosed into a genuine auteur via a second LP and stint at Red Bull Music Academy.
He’s now using a huge musical palette to paint his music, full of hypercolour, tropical rhythms and weird pop textures and showing off time spent in Glasgow, Berlin and now London.
Now with releases on Mad Decent and his latest moment - the ace Sympathies Scrapbook - he’s using more eighties pop rushes than ever before, mixing them with ace melodies and oddball production. It’s for fans of the PC Music of Sophie and AC Cook but turn it over and there's great pop songwriting beating beneath the cleverness … get to know him in our 30 seconds below…
I first started writing music because…
I inherited an enthusiasm for it. I was encouraged. I also had the means, albeit primitive, to do it. Everyone has the means.
I have been making music since…
In some form or other, I’ve been making music since I was in primary school; learning the guitar. But I first started dabbling with computer music in my early teens and only since around 2008-2009 did I really start finishing tunes and developing a ‘sound’ so to speak.
My music is…
Many things. Fairly positive in tone at the moment. If my last album was ‘introspective’, then the next is quite the opposite. Working title is ‘The importance of not being Ernest’.
It’s a series of mischievous songs dealing with technology, love in the technological age, childhood traumas. If there is any sincerity in the lyrics, it is masked by quite upbeat productions. I think I may have been slightly inspired by PC Music in that sense. But there are a lot of adventurous flights of fancy which continue where the last body of work left off. Baroque like textures, progy jazz fusion escapades, eighties Jean Michelle Jarre and nineties r’n’b stylings served up in some jagged kinda pop vessel.
You'll like my music if you listen to...
The genres mentioned above. Pop music and electronica?
My favourite venue is…
Meat Factory, Prague. It’s a converted abattoir? A venue and artist studio complex, set up by the artist David Cerny.
Music is important because…
If you’re listening to music, you’re less likely to be making war or offending people.
My biggest inspiration is…
Music n books.
My dream collaboration would be…
With Cut Tongues theatre group. The dream is a reality. We are currently cutting our first film. A 15 minute extended music video extravaganza with a cast of 30 actors. Its takes place somewhere in the vicinity of Hackney Marshes and purports to tell stories of Eric Satie, both archaic and science fictional sports and the tumultuous nature of love.
To try me out, listen to my song…
Sympathies Scrapbook.
If I wasn’t making music I’d be…
Making muzak.
In 10 years’ time I want to be...
An intergalactic success story.
https://www.facebook.com/zygadlomusic
http://www.twitter.com/rudyzygadlo
