Percy X

Scotsman Tony Scott has produced superior techno out of Glasgow since the middle of the 1990s, taking cues from the hard-edged trailblazers Underground Resistance and the reductionist figures linked to Berlin’s Basic Channel. He first surfaced in 1993 alongside Richard Miller within the duo Havana, whose club success arrived via the track “Schtoom” at a moment when the style was still labeled trance. After the partnership ended, the two kept releasing material on their shared label Out on a Limb. Scott eventually made his bow on the Glasgow imprint Soma, operated by Stuart MacMillan and Orde Meikle of Slam. The three 1995 outings he delivered there—“X-Trak 1,” “Odyssey,” and “-3,” the last co-produced with Andrew Weatherall—became staples in venues committed to austere techno. His debut album Spyx appeared in 1996. During the ensuing years Scott kept a lower profile, releasing just three EPs between 1997 and 1999. The second Percy X album, Gain, arrived in 2000.