FACTmag

Exclusive: Stream the final instalment in Untold’s Change in a Dynamic Environment series

Use your ← → arrow keys to navigate

You can always trust Jack Dunning to deliver the goods – and often in a manner you didn’t quite expect.

But even by his own standards, Untold’s recent run of form has been a pleasure to behold. With the Change In A Dynamic Environment series, the producer confronts techno head-on in a way only pre-empted in last year’s ‘Little Things Like That’ for Clone.

Pt. 1, released back in April, saw rough-edged, mosquito-like basslines swell and recede at a hypnotically glacial pace, while Pt. 2 expanded the formula with chest-crushing kickdrums and moments of unexpected melodicism. We can now present an exclusive stream of Pt. 3, which concludes the series with a swerve into unexpected territory.

‘Kane’’s chugging bassline seems to reference motorik post-punk rather than techno’s more inhuman sound palette, although the ruthlessly methodical pace at which it unfolds is clearly tailored for the dancefloor. Before long, though, we take a left turn into more sinister terrain, and one of those trademark baleful, growling basslines rears up out of the murk to spine-chilling effect. ‘Overdrive’, meanwhile, pivots on a similar post-punk riff, but takes it further – we’re plunged headfirst into a kind of clattering industrial breakbeat that sounds quite unlike anything else around at the moment.

Change in a Dynamic Environment Pt. 3 is due for release through Untold’s own Hemlock imprint on August 13. You can stream both tracks in full below.

comments


FACT is the UK's best online music magazine and home to the weekly FACT mix series.
All content © 2012-2013 by The Vinyl Factory. All rights reserved.