Jazz makes for good remix funk. When you add math and composition you get Shigeto. I can see how he ended up on Ghostly International. His sound compliments the line-up of artists but he can certainly differentiate himself. I like that he has a sophisticated sensibility and approach to his production – it comes across beautifully. I also enjoyed the variances between each track. Fantastic experimental electronic!
Taken from his Ghostly Bio:
Zach’s body of work has grown over the last few years to the tune of several EPs on Moodgadget as Shigeto and with A Setting Sun, a pair of EPs under the alias Frank Omura (another family-name reference), and remixes for Worst Friends, Praveen & Benoit, Tycho, Mux Mool, Charles Trees, A Setting Sun, Beautiful Bells, Shlohmo, and more. The Semi-Circle EP will be his first release with Ghostly International; the full-length Full Circle is on the horizon. Semi-Circle is a fiercely independent work of art, nominally indebted to instrumental hip-hop but, like Zach, straddling many worlds at once. Cool shades of ambient music, stuttering early IDM, dubstep sub-bass, and jazz melodicism color Shigeto’s palette, which he wields with a painterly attention to detail.
Look out for this young, talented producer. More to come.