As Shigeto‘s new track “Detroit Part 1” would seem to reference, the electronic musician has recently moved from Brooklyn to the Motor City. This cut is the first single from his up-coming LP No Better Time Than Now due out August 20th via Ghostly International. Using a fresh, expressive style, sick arsenal of rapier-sharp beats, and his talent for creating jazz-inflected instrumental hip-hop, “Detroit Part 1” is both a progression for the artist and an homage to the city which gave birth to Techno.
While Shigeto’s past works like the EP What We Held Onto and the 2012 LP Lineage were meditations on the artist’s Japanese-American heritage, Zach Saginaw says that the constantly changing fabric of his life has allowed him to more closely focus on the now. In talking about the inspiration for No Better Time Than Now he sagely offers:
“Don’t sleep on a feeling. If it feels right it is. We say life is ‘short,’ but [we] know it feels ‘long,’ so when you have a chance to be honest with yourself, take it. There is no better time than now.”
Shigeto is kicking off a European tour this weekend, so here are the dates…
06.14 London, UK @ Electrowerkz
06.15 Notre-Dame-de-Monts, FR @ West Side Festival
06.19 Tilburg, NL @ 013 Incubated
06.20 Bristol, UK @ Start the Bus
06.21 Charleroi, BE @ Vecteur
06.22 Modena, IT @ Node Festival
06.23 Antwerp, BE @ Kavka
06.26 Lucerne, CH @ Treibhaus
06.27 Mulhouse, FR @ B?tes de Sc?nes Festival
06.28 Dresden, DE @ Altes Wettb?ro
07.11 Bordeaux, FR @ Hauts de Garonne Festival
07.12 Linz, AT @ Ottenheim Open Air
07.13 Prague, CZ @ Creepy Teepee Festival
07.17 Nijmegen, NL @ Valkhof Festival
07.18 Paris, FR @ Glazart w/ Come Truise
07.19 Ljubljana, SI @ TKNP Open Air Festival
07.21 Zadar, CR @ Soundwave Festival
07.28 Dufer, OR @ WTF Festival
09.25 Seattle, WA @ Decibel Festival
