Crafting tracks which make a virtue of disparate influences, Kyle Molleson a.k.a. MAKENESS manages to pull off something difficult: songs which have been tirelessly worked on, although sound loose-limbed and to-the-point.

His debut album "Loud Patterns" is noticeably indebted to house and techno; there are 4/4 rhythms, and a no-nonsense directness that harks back to the Detroit pioneers.

Channeling avant-garde experimentalism and an outsider's interest in pop, Kyle embraces the distance between those two poles.

"Loud Patterns" arrives after a series of releases that have established his particular, in-between approach to dance-minded music.

MAKENESS put out two EPs on Manchester-based imprint Handsome Dad, a one-off single with Adult Jazz and self-released Temple Works EP; Whities also released a limited-edition white label of a Minor Science dub of one of his tracks.