Sit up and pay attention because this is going to get a little confusing.
In January an eponymous EP by someone going by the name Golden Ratio Syrup was released via the label NOREMIXES—a fledging music home conceived by Philadelphia's PJ Geissinger a.k.a. Starkey. (The rational being that NOREMIXES will focus on synth music, electro- acoustic, ambient and modern classical styles.)
At the time no one knew who was behind GRS, it was merely hinted that the sonic strangeness, featuring wildly pitch-shifted vocals, plaintive keys, and what we can best describe as a kind of time warp weirdness, was the output of an already established musician.
We can now reveal that the mastermind is one Rudi Zygadlo, former Planet Mu artist, recent Mad Decent affiliate and all around London-dwelling, Scotland-born artiste. Not content with putting out electronica-weird-pop under his delightful-to-pronounce birth name, the multi-inststrumentalist has decided to branch out and below is the premiere of the video for "A Screaming Comes Across the Sky," lifted from the Golden Ratio Syrup EP. And if that phrase sounds familiar, gold star brainiac: it's a line from Gravity's Rainbow the 1973 Thomas Pynchon novel.
It's a 10 minute tune and its accompanying video (below) is a collaboration Cut Tongues. They describe this cinematic short as "a carnival of absurd sports across North East London’s wastelands." It's beautiful and slow like oozing tree sap, sure to induce a rising state of heartbeat-quickening panic with every minor piano chord struck. And those far-off creepy baby burbles? Yeah, we no likey. This feels like the appocalypse is imminent and the world is running upside down.
Here's what Cut Tongues and Zygadlo and this to say about the whole shebang: