After one listen to the latest Rudi Zygadlo single, the obvious node of comparison is Beirut with Beatz. But the Glasgow-based composer has always achieved a balance between the sacral and the secular, notably name-dropping a church steeple spied from his window as a chief early inspiration. Folk and Frank Zappa have always figured as […]

No one needs to over-analyze why James Blake was able to mesmerize the low-fat Cafe Mocha crowd to see why certain electronic records cross over. The murky underwater fuzz of the early FWD >> material wasn’t going to play in Peoria or really anywhere outside of Rinse. Unless you garnish your beatz with artery clogging […]

Rudi Zygadlo On Pictures Music & Planet Mu Releases with Jules Hallam on Intruders.tv Music Last January, I interviewed Rudi Zygadlo after hearing his first single “Resealable Friendship” on Mary Anne Hobbs’ Radio show. It was immediately evident that he was one of the most gifted artists in contemporary bass music. Think of him as […]

Let’s be honest, a significant portion of the purple/wonky/whatever tunes–even the exceptional ones–lack personality. Enter Rudi Zygadlo, yet another of the Scottish-bred beat contingent, who have spent the last year and change convincing the seven Americans paying attention that Glasgow is far more than the sum of Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, and cheap stereotypes […]