Konx-Om-Pax

Konx-om-Pax serves as the working alias for electronic musician, visual artist, and animator Tom Scholefield, who was born in Scotland and now resides in Berlin. His productions evoke faded recollections of nineties rave culture and the earliest phases of IDM, yet they place markedly less weight on rhythmic drive. The resulting dreamy and at times unsettling sonic environments align closely with the hauntological aesthetic cultivated by the Ghost Box imprint and with the more abstract wing of labels such as Skam. Among the project’s most recognized outputs is the 2016 album Caramel, issued on Planet Mu.

Scholefield first turned to remixing and original production in the middle of the 2000s. He earned a degree from the Glasgow School of Art in 2006, and before the decade closed his studio Display Copy had established itself as a sought-after graphic-design practice whose clients included Hudson Mohawke, Rustie, and Oneohtrix Point Never. Entering the new decade he created sleeve artwork for Lone and Laurel Halo, then issued his limited-edition debut album Light in Extension in 2011. Subsequent commissions for Planet Mu sleeves by Machinedrum and the Host led to a recording contract with the label, which brought out his 2012 album Regional Surrealism. While maintaining parallel activity in music and design, Scholefield traveled globally with Lone in 2015 to supply live visuals. Following his relocation to Berlin he delivered his second Planet Mu album, Caramel, in 2016. The EP Refresher, containing reinterpretations by µ-ziq and Huerco S., appeared the next year. After relocating to Berlin once more, he issued the brighter and rhythmically assertive full-length Ways of Seeing in 2019.