Scott Young — CV

One of Hong Kong's top techno music producers.

Scott YoungDJ and live sets, club recordsSatin Dollexperimental, albumsSkullydancehall editsDopamine Riderconcrete techno

Press

"Scott Young from Hong Kong who's playing really heavy weird techno."

Black Lodge (Mo'Wax / The Trilogy Tapes) — Visit Manchester, 2018

"Twisted, carefully pulsating and deconstructed soundscapes."

Hardwax

"Young's idiosyncratic sound is like none other."

Bleep

Profiled in Dazed (Gabriel Szatan, 2020) on the future of clubbing, alongside Carista, Teki Latex and Hodge.

Biography

Scott Young makes and plays music from dub-soaked house, via broken techno and musique concrète. His tracks work the same way: slamming drums give way to tape-warped loops, field recordings and machine noise, with a dry humour and a streak of digital paranoia.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, he spent the 2010s between Berlin, Bristol and Manchester. His debut, Commix, came out on Samo DJ's Born Free in 2015. Homeless followed on Discos Capablanca, then Ket City, a white-vinyl edition of 30 launched with an instore at Sound Metaphors in Berlin. In Manchester he fell in with the Sferic, All Night Flight and Space Afrika orbit, and Black Lodge named him in a Visit Manchester interview for playing "really heavy weird techno". From 2016 he held an 18-month residency at Potato Head in Sai Ying Pun, playing its record library through vintage JBL monitors.

Selectors picked the records up early, with Ben UFO and Breach playing M.O.E.I. weeks before its release, and kept playing them, from Beautiful Swimmers, Paramida and Ben Sims to Trevor Jackson, Optimo and Lena Willikens, while Detroit Swindle and Viers took his tracks to Boiler Room.

Post Peace on OOH-Sounds built generative percussion in Max/MSP and FM drone around "Tuck", a reconstruction of the 2011 Hackney riots with Joe Beedles. As Satin Doll, the machine-learning album A Model Within on SUPERPANG morphed field recordings and shakuhachi through neural audio models, and Lee Gamble picked it for his 2023 Boomkat chart. He remixed Joakim's "Owling Gorilla" for Tigersushi (2022) and sang the Cantonese vocal on Samo DJ's 'LKF' (The Trilogy Tapes, 2016; CE Tape 2018 for Cav Empt). As Skully he cut dancehall edits for a 2025 split with Taymour on diy.

He played 宀 Club as Hong Kong's clubs reopened in July 2020, and in September 2021 co-organised Repo Populace with Xper.Xr at The Catalyst in Sheung Wan. He has played Griessmuehle, Macao, Forestlimit, Nyapi and Control abroad. In 2022 he premiered Compression Release Time, Rebecca Salvadori's film for his record Post Peace, with a live set at IKLECTIK in London. In 2026 he played Mitsuki in Tokyo alongside Compuma, and Bar Temp in Bangkok.

In 2026 he's back in the booth, and the sets run longer and stranger: clicks-and-cuts minimal bleeding into psychedelic disco edits and cosmic funk. He runs the tape label Less Loss, broadcasts on FM Belowground, and builds Acetate, mastering software shaped by years of listening for weight on club systems.

"It's more important to tell who you are via your music, instead of arguing on social media. Make more weird mutant music. Be brave and create your own world. There's nothing more interesting than that."

Scott Young, Inverted Audio

Discography

Skully
Dubplate
diy records (split with Taymour) · 2025 · 7" vinyl · Distributed by Boomkat
Boomkat ↗
Satin Doll
A Model Within
Superpang (SP151) · 2023 · Digital
DDSP machine learning, field recordings, infant cries, Shakuhachi flute. Mastered by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros.
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Remix: Joakim "Owling Gorilla"
Tigersushi — Second Nature Remixes · 2022 · 12" vinyl / digital
Remix alongside Mad Professor and 808 State.
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Cantonese vocal on Samo DJ "LKF"
The Trilogy Tapes x CAVEMPT mixtape series · Cassette
Satin Doll
Mong Kok Haruna
Less Loss (own label) · 2021 · Cassette, edition of 70
Field recordings from Hong Kong's Mong Kok district and Reaktor experiments.
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Post Peace
OOH-Sounds (OOH-026) · 2021 · 12" vinyl, edition of 300
Tuck (w/ Joe Beedles) / Playing God / Post Peace. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu, cut by Lupo. Artwork by Rebecca Salvadori.
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Ket City
Discos Capablanca (DISCOS20) · 2020 · 12" white vinyl, edition of 30 numbered copies
Social Climber Guide / Drum Orgies / Hyper Domestication / Ket City / Pad Jacuzzi. Silkscreened PVC sleeve by Gomito. Instore launch at Sound Metaphors Berlin. Personally passed to Andrew Weatherall by Hugo Capablanca. Named one of Inverted Audio's Best EPs of 2020. Discogs: 4.91/5.
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V/A Amateur Vampires
Opal Tapes · 2019 · Compilation
Dopamine Rider
Personal FX
Discos Capablanca (DISCO-TRECE) · 2017 · 12" vinyl
$ LFO / Personal FX / John Cage Is My Homeboy / Sai Ying Pun / Crunch Thump (hidden). Artwork by Matt Damhave.
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Homeless
Discos Capablanca (DCKBA001) · 2016 · 10" vinyl
No Return To The Jive / Homeless. Recorded in Berlin while actually homeless. Reviewed by Resident Advisor and Inverted Audio.
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Commix
Born Free (BF17) · 2015 · 12" vinyl
Pseudo Crushed Funk / Commix / M.O.E.I. Debut release on Samo DJ's imprint.
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Radio & Mixes

2024
Sagatyo REC-09 — Mix, July 2024
2019
Inverted Audio IA MIX 321 — Interview and hour-long mix
2019
NTS — Guest on Sanpo Disco (last ever Sanpo NTS show)
2019
Noods Radio — Half-year residency, Bristol
Ongoing
FM Belowground — Regular broadcaster, Hong Kong community radio
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LYL Radio — One-off show, recorded at ex-Club Mate Paris office
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Berlin Community Radio — Guest mix for JM Moser
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Kindred — Session
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Bleep — Mix contribution
2016
NTS — Guest on Sacred Pools w/ DJ October, Faso + Toshiki Ohta

Played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 24 episodes.

Selected CV

Born
Hong Kong
Based
Manchester, UK / Hong Kong
Venues
Griessmuehle (Berlin) · Macao (Milan) · IKLECTIK (London) · Sound Metaphors (Berlin, instore) · Empty Gallery (Hong Kong) · Potato Head Hong Kong (former resident, 18 months) · The Catalyst (Sheung Wan, Hong Kong) · SET (Dalston, London) · forestlimit (Tokyo) · Mitsuki (Tokyo) · Nyapi (Seoul) · Bar Temp (Bangkok) · 宀 Club (Hong Kong) · Control (Bucharest)
Collaborations
Remix of Joakim "Owling Gorilla" on Tigersushi, alongside Mad Professor and 808 State (2022) · Live set at Rebecca Salvadori's The Sun Has No Shadow, IKLECTIK London, 2022 — premiere of her film for Post Peace, "Compression Release Time", screened alongside Andy Stott's "Hard To Tell" · Cantonese vocal on Samo DJ "LKF" for The Trilogy Tapes x CAVEMPT · Co-organised Repo Populace with Xper.Xr at The Catalyst, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, 2021
Collaborators
Wing Shya · Xper.Xr · Rebecca Salvadori · Joakim (Tigersushi) · Mad Professor · 808 State · Andy Stott · Joe Beedles · Beautiful Swimmers · Samo DJ · Taymour
Labels (artist)
Born Free · Opal Tapes · Discos Capablanca · OOH-Sounds · Superpang · Tigersushi · Mitamine Lab · diy records · The Trilogy Tapes (via Beautiful Swimmers; via CAVEMPT)
Labels (founder)
Less Loss
Radio
NTS (24 episodes) · Noods (Bristol residency) · FM Belowground (Hong Kong community radio) · Radio Raheem · Mutant Radio · Kindred · Bleep · Berlin Community Radio · LYL Radio · Inverted Audio
Press
Dazed (Gabriel Szatan, 2020) · South China Morning Post (Enid Tsui, 2021) · Resident Advisor (review, 2016) · Loud And Quiet (review, 2021) · Ransom Note (feature, 2020) · Ableton (AI music / Neutone workflow) · Neutone / Qosmo Lab (artist interview, 2023) · Visit Manchester · Inverted Audio
Speaking
Guest lecturer, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong (2024)
Software
Acetate (acetate.lol) — mastering app for DJ mixes and tracks. Out now (v1.3): macOS, with an experimental Windows build. · Published Gamelan RAVE model on Neutone (neutone.ai).