TYCHO

Scott Hansen is busy. “I don’t know if I’m slowing down or what,” says the Sacramento-born multi-instrumentalist otherwise known as Tycho, “but these days it just feels like there’s never enough time to get anything done.”

One glance at his diary and you’ll see exactly why Scott is struggling for time. He’s been juggling professions since the early-2000s and, in the past few years alone, has released two LPs and toured Europe and Australia, all while continuing to design his own artwork and live visuals. You might expect him to be enjoying a well-earned break then. Not quite. With multiple projects on the go, including remixing other artists’ music and writing a score for a videogame, the Californian is as industrious as ever. “I’ve been doing this for 22 years now,” he says. “But I feel like I’m just getting started.”

DIVE IN

In the seven years between the release of his 2004 debut Sunrise Projector – re-released two years later as the better-known Past Is Prologue – and his 2011 sophomore album Dive, Scott made a living via his ISO50 visual arts project, which encompasses graphic design and photography, and sees him make much of Tycho’s artwork. But shortly before the release of his second record, Scott faced a choice. “I thought, ‘I’ve got all these songs and if I don’t do this now, maybe I’ll never have the opportunity to do this for a living.’ A lot of things came together that year.”

Scott’s experience in marketing and branding has helped him create cohesive suites, and has cannily equipped him to use platforms to his advantage. “There was never this genius marketing campaign,” he says. “It was more about just keeping on it, using in 2002, using MySpace when that was a thing, using Facebook, using SoundCloud and