Change In A Dynamic Environment EP 3 vinyl

Drum & bass, Detroit techno, and now...post-punk? It seems unlikely that anyone would have expected Untold to conclude his trilogy of EPs with two tracks that could have emerged out of the dancepunk boom of ten years ago, but if anything they just prove that the DNA of early 80s British guitar music runs deep enough to show its dominant traits once every few generations. Of course it's not a total departure - although "Kane" is characterised by its Gang of Four style bassline, aesthetically it's a fitting companion to the first EP's "Motion The Dance": dark, throbbing, and filled with malicious intent, it's offered an air of grandiose spectacle with its symphonic violin, peaking at its mid-point when an event horizon of waspish drones open up beneath the bassline and pulls everything in. "Overdrive" meanwhile takes a more explicitly industrial tack, as heavily distorted bass guitar licks are thrown into a cascading jumble of crunchy, organic beats.

Ben Sims, Simon Heartfield, Kr!z (Token Records), Billy Nasty, Ka§par, Kone-R (Uncharted Audio), Marcel Heese, Zenner, FabioDellaTorre (Minimono/Bosconi), Per Bojsen-Moller, Juno Recommends Techno, James Ruskin, Rivet, Kondaktor