Shigeto is tagged as: idm, ambient, electronic, glitch, glitch-hop
Artists take on pseudonyms for a variety of reasons, but Zach Saginaw's case, these reasons run deeper than most Zach discs under the name Shigeto It is his middle name, so is his grandfather's name pays homage to the Japanese branch of the Zach family tree Shigeto also means "to become more" appropriate given Zach's premature birth-weight of less than a pound today Shigeto stands for Zach's vividly beautiful electronic music beat-driven but, given the richly textured sound design rhythmically broken but melodically sumptuous Shigeto Music is a bridge between past and present bring the artist face to face with a creative legacy that spans decades
Zach grew up on a steady diet of Michigan-bred music that his fatherspoon-fed him old Motown and jazz records by the crate load Zach picked up the drums at an early age, spending much of his childhood playing in the Detroit / Ann Arbor music scene after nearly flunking out of high school, save for his music studies, Zach spent three years studying jazz at the New School in NYC and another three in London, where he began woodshedding obsessed with learning electronic production soon enough strikes occurred Zach moved to Brooklyn and took up the name
