Fergus Clark

Glasgow's Fergus Clark has a depth of musical knowledge way beyond his years. He is one quarter of the 12th Isle label, party and radio collective and digs deep into everything from early techno to musique concrète to obscure exotica. In 2017 he released a still-essential tape on Tasker's 88T label and a compilation with JD Twitch, Miracle Steps (Music from the 4th World). Both releases show how Clark puts music together with a sense of storytelling, scene-setting and endless mysticism. His sets give a sense of journeying through new worlds: humid music with vocal chants and digital synths paired with indigenous instrumentation, drums growing bigger as proto-house rhythms take hold, ending somewhere close to a steamy tropical rave.