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First he wanted to have a career as a visual artist, but soon he exchanged his pencil and paintbrush for a Commodore 64 and a Russian upright piano. In the middle of '80s he was programming music on a C64, beside of that he began to play the piano for himself. At the age of 18 he started to play in a band which played blues cover versions. After that he kept switching groups and mingling styles through blues, progressive rock and acid-jazz. The long time stage experience can be easily recognized in every beats of him. His first real success was the Garderobe project (12" vinyl, Future Sound of Budapest vol 3)
He has also contributed a great deal of his talent to Yonderboi's debut album Shallow and Profound which won the Golden Giraffe prize in Hungary. As member of the Yonderboi Quintet he has played at more than 160 concerts in the capitols of Europe. The project called Trevira Modern is also a formation of the two producers. Some tracks of this project were licensed by the BBC and the CHANNEL 4 Television for their program.
Balázs Zságer has been producing his own tracks under the name Zagar since the beginning of 2001. Together with guitarist Andor Kovács, scratchmaster DJ Bootsie and drummer Tibor Lázár they have become a real stage band. Their first album Local Broadcast came out in 2002. On this album there are many featuring artist, one of them the singer György Ligeti (The Puzzle) used to play together with Zságer in the band called The End.
Beside the Zagar project he is in the circulation of the independent music scene in Budapest as well (dj Mango, Sena, Albert Márkos, Skeg). He also made music for theater plays (Csiky Gergely, TÁP Theatre) and movies (Szezon / Eastern Sugar, Tower).
Discography
Garderobe vs. Paul Légére - Golden Age maxi (12") / Underground Juice Records 1999
Garderobe - Aranykor / HouseMatic Millenium / Underground Records 1999
Garderobe - Golden age (Instr. mix) / Future Sound of Budapest 3 / Underground Juice Records 2000
Amorf Ördögök - Nekem a Balaton... maxi (Trevira Modern remix) / UCMG Ugar 1999
Kamarás Iván - Bombajó album / Cross Roads Records 1999
Yonderboi - Shallow and Profound album / UCMG Ugar 2000
Yonderboi - Pabadam maxi / UCMG Mole 2000
Pete Walshe - Summer Love (Garderobe moogmix) (12") / Bonafide Recordings 2001
Zagar - Dripstones (EP version) / Magyar Ugar volume 1.0 / UCMG Ugar 2001
Deutsch Gábor - Kidnapped Radiance (Yonderboi feat. Zagar remix) / UCMG Germany 2001
Zagar - Local Broadcast album / UCMG Ugar 2002
Zagar - Cousteau's Dream / Ugarfree vol 1 / UCMG Ugar 2003
Zagar - Only When I Lose Myself / A Tribute To Depeche Mode / Private Moon 2003
Zagar - In the Year 2525 / Replay 2 / Eros Music, Athen 2003
Kovács Andor feat. Zagar - Mavu / Ugarfree vol 1 / UCMG Ugar 2003
Trevira Modern - Dakkaragada / Danubian Rhapsody maxi (10") / UCMG Ugar 2003
Sena - First One album / Platonov, New Morning / Gimmeshot Records 2003
Zagar - Bossa Astoria / Revolution Remixes maxi (12") / UCMG Ugar - coming soon!
Zagar - Szezon / Eastern Sugar Soundtrack / will be released September of 2004!
Favourites, Influences

Frédéric Chopin
Szergej Prokofjev
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Keith Jarrett
Jimmi Hendrix
The Beatles
The Doors
Michael Franks
Beastie Boys
RadioHead
Sigur rós
Blur
Kraftwerk
Tomita
Depeche Mode
Air
Dj Shadow
Mathew Herbert
Brian Eno
Rhythm & Sound
Nino Rota
Phillip Glass
Goran Bregovic
Másik János
Vukán György

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