Swada

Wiktor Szczygieł, known professionally as Swada (stylised as Sw@da), is a Polish record producer, creating on samplers, synthesizers and sequencers,

Career Szczygieł described the Swada project as "an attempt to hear what would have happened if young people in Belarusian villages near Hajnówka had access to MPC samplers and TR-808 machines in 1989". He also emphasized that the essence of the project is "not only a compilation of folk inspirations from seemingly distant parts of the world, but also finding a plane for the functioning of traditional music as the core of underground-bass tracks".

In 2019, Swada created a music project with rappers Maciej "MC Dzidek" Dzitkowski and Nika "Niczos" Jurczuk and vocalist Wioletta Bociuk. and for the studio album recorded together entitled Sad (2022), he received a nomination for the Fryderyk award in the category of roots music album of the year.

On 29 November 2024, Swada released an album entitled #InDaWoods, which he recorded with Nika "Niczos" Jurczuk. placing second in the final on 14 February 2025.

On 11 February 2025, the labelled Szczygieł's Instagram account as "extremist" and disabled access to it in the country.

Discography

Studio albums TitleDetailsSad Released: 14 October 2022 Formats: CD, Digital download, streaming#InDaWoods Released: 29 November 2024 Formats: Digital download, streaming