{"title":"Konx-om-pax","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ways-of-seeing","title":"Ways of Seeing","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn Ways Of Seeing Konx-om-Pax has switched up the mood and hit gold. He has made an album that is filled with joy and sunshine, saturated with the classic feel of Berlin Techno.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTom Scholefield has moved on from the dark ambient and brittle rave of the first two Konx-om-Pax albums, which were a reflection of his hometown Glasgow's electronic music scenes. After a recent move to Berlin, the textures of Glasgow's musical strains have fused into an accessible and friendly mix of poppy melodic electronica built from a stricter 'less is more' sound pallete, closer in spirit to the music of his adopted city. It is also a record which was made in opposition to recent music he has been hearing, in particular the troubled, dark and noisy experimental music coming out of Berlin. Tom wanted to focus on more joyful qualities, making this a record imbued with warmth and happiness, a panacea to the darkness and disorientation all around in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving a social scene full of producers has also influenced the album. The opening track \u003ci\u003eLA Melody\u003c\/i\u003e came from staying with Ross Birchard (Hudson Mohawke) at his house in LA, hanging out in the glorious sunshine with him and Lunice working on tracks. On \u003ci\u003eSäule Acid\u003c\/i\u003e he collaborates with Silvia Kastel and in\u003ci\u003e I’m For Real\u003c\/i\u003e the vocals of Glaswegian DJ \/ producer Nightwave filter around the track. Stripped away to just the good bits, \u003ci\u003eWays Of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e is a pleasure to listen to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Planet Mu","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50404989731147,"sku":"1062220","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50404990615883,"sku":"1062221","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/678aff26-b451-4fb7-b245-5db0741e1f13_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726572822"},{"product_id":"caramel","title":"Caramel","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom 'Konx-om-Pax' Scholefield's Caramel is quite a different record from the dark, mould-pocked ambience of his debut 'Regional Surrealism'. Although it's primarily a beatless album, it's one with a big smile on it's face.Scholefield started making 'Caramel' after his last record in 2012, \"My surroundings have a direct influence on the mood of what I make. I made Regional Surrealism when I was living in a big empty flat on my own in Glasgow town centre surrounded by concrete and junkies. Moving next to the park, closer to friends and getting to tour the world had a positive effect on the feel of the tracks.\" 'Caramel' has a lightness and energy, an unrepentant joyful cheesiness even - like the rave piano and spiralling arpeggios of 'Cosmic Trigger' or the big beatless build up of the title track. \"A lot of the tracks are very simple, that's quite an important theme.\"  He adds \"I remember the Human League talk about how you can play their songs using only a couple of fingers on the synth, or Boards Of Canada saying its important to be able to hum their melodies really easily.\" There's also a strong element of rave memory in this ambience. It's influenced in some ways by touring the world with Lone doing visuals and DJing, but also from simply listening to old rave tapes and taking in the warmth and energy. As he says \"Some of the tracks are like photocopies of photocopies of rave tracks, where the drums have dissolved and its just the melodies that have survived.\" You can hear this distinctly on 'Perc Rave'. Other tracks are more or less drones that build into melodies, like 'Beatrice's Visit', as he says \"I'm always trying to find the most ecstatic and basic loop and just let it run and do it's thing. I heard a funny story about Basic Channel popping out to get a kebab and letting their machines run while they were out.\" Other tracks approach the pastoral melodies of prime nineties IDM such as 'At The Lake' and 'Rainbow Bounce' which almost seem like a homage to Planet Mu's Mike Paradinas at his most beatific. Dive in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Planet Mu","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50494430019915,"sku":"403227","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4a133a06-8525-44da-8f92-14ffaadd86ed_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727705427"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/konx-om-pax.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}