If you happen to catch him performing live, the first thing you’ll probably notice about The Polish Ambassador is his odd choice in onstage attire. Donning a yellow and white ski suit and a pair of dark-tinted aviators, the Oakland artist is hard to miss. That’s true, of course, until he starts the set. At that point, he might as well be hiding behind a silk curtain: you won’t be paying attention to anything but the music. Intricate and full of deep colors, The Polish Ambassador (aka David Sugalski) is determined to craft a soundscape more picturesque than any of his contemporaries. Transcending mood and genre, he exhibits his artistic prowess to the fullest with his new full-length release Future, Sex, Computers. 

In a genre where the status quo is to crank the low-end, the opener, “Quantum Peeps,” sounds less like a bass blast and more like a flurry of beeps. Glitch, electro, hip-hop, and funk all get play here, but instead of sounding like a messy collage, Sugalski finds away to make it all work. This is pure head-nod stuff, but by the time he gets to “Save, Develop, Protect” a searing emotional quality starts to shine through. A lot of that comes from purely from his musicianship. Sugalski is a master of composition, and where some of his peers would be content with knob-twiddling, he pushes for something more in his progressions.