With Achtung!, Pictures Music might actually be releasing this year’s most melodic, poppy and yet most creative record within the genre of electronic music. Rudi Zygadlo got himself some support from the trumpeter Gerard Mckeever and the accordnianist Ross Flemming in order to create a mixture between Eastern European folk music, dubstep and jazz. The whole EP is marked by Rudi Zygadko’s impressive singing, and no matter whether he arranges his own voice to a full choir or whether he uses Phaser- and Reptich-effects to make it become unrecognizable – together with brilliant chords from crooked synthesizers or classical trumpets, he creates an impressive atmosphere combining electronic music with the a feeling of warmth and purity that’s evoked by acoustic instruments. The bastard arising from this mixture reflects all the musical influences that the Scottish producer and singer has been collecting since his early childhood. The opener, Catherine, in particular, contains chords so pure and beautiful that one automatically assumes one of the old Jazz legends having had their hands in the making of the song. Still, Rudi Zygadlo manages to prevent any form of kitsch by only allowing the chords to appear for a very short moment, only to then drown them in a thunderstorm of sound effects. Big. Very big.
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