Lanark Artefax’s abstract, idiosyncratic sound design is making an Impact

You did a show on NTS featuring spoken word monologues you’d penned threaded through the music, which was quite conceptual and art rooted. Do you see your music as club music?

Probably not. I do in the sense that clubs are one of the few spaces that people would play that type that of music and you can go to hear it loud, but I don't really spend a lot of time in clubs or go to a lot of nights, so I don't make music with a club environment in mind. But I do make it with the idea of it being played loud and it being powerful. It's inspired in some way by club music, but I wouldn't necessarily call it that. 'Touch Absence' on the Whities record is quite a dance-y, clubby tune, but that wasn’t deliberate, it just kind of happened.

Do you DJ out?

I do a little bit; it's kind of alien world to me. I do enjoy it, and I'm hopefully going to do a bit more of it. But I don't really listen to dance music so it's hard to DJ when you don't play dance music often. Hopefully I'll be playing out at specific events where it's more appropriate to play more abstract stuff.

I get booking requests come in and I'm trying to carve a bit of a path out that way. It seems like there's a bit more of an appetite at the moment for alternative type nights and they seem to be cropping up more and more. So hopefully I'll find appropriate things to do.

Would you do a live show?

I'm working with some people to put that together at the moment; hopefully it will be ready over summer.

What is your next big goal?

I'm concentrating on some projects that will come together at the end of the year, so that's the focus currently. And then I'm trying to get the next release together and find a home for it.

'Whities 011' is out now, order it via Boomkat

Patrick Hinton is Mixmag's Digital Staff Writer, follow him on Twitter

Tracklist
Pleq & Philippe Lamy - Sans Titre Une (Christopher Bissonnette remix)
Unintentional ASMR - Relaxing Neurological Exam
Blesses Initiative - Delirium juice and Taste of jewelry
Veritasium - Seeing the Invisible: Schlieren Imaging in SLOW MOTION
Unfavorable Semicircles - Ovni Noir
Lee Gamble - Voxel City Spirals
t.e.s.o. - box()
Second Woman - II E/P
Peder Mannerfelt - I Love You
Sim Hutchins - Some Men (me) Just Want to Watch the World Burn
WINTERMUTANT - Defined By a Hollow (Lanark Blockchain Mix)
Eaves - Manual Children
Coil - Careful What You Wish For