“I’m just used to hitting things,” says Birmingham based musician Mick Harris, who earned the nickname The Human Tornado from his days drumming with UK hardcore group Napalm Death between 1985–91, “so working with the pads or a little MIDI keyboard works for me. I’ve collected sounds for a long, long time, and I still use some of them ancient sounds – you just reshape them.”

Harris, who swapped his sticks for a sampler 30 years ago and has made music under the name Scorn ever since, is about to release his latest album The Only Place via bass-heavy imprint Ohm Resistance. He has experimented with a range of styles, including ambient, dub and triphop, and over time has focused on the act of stripping back his sound.

“[Scorn has] gotten, I think, more and more minimal over the years,” Harris tells Phil Freeman in The Wire 449. “Just concentrating on that stripped down beat and that heavy bass.”

“At One Point” is taken from The Only Place, released via Ohm Resistance on 18 June.

Find out more about Scorn's latest release and Mick Harris's development of sound by reading Phil Freeman's interview in The Wire 449. Wire subscribers can also access the article online via the digital archive.