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The Untouchables - Culture Clash EP

DNO Records

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Cat No: DNO004
Format: 12" Vinyl
Release Date: 29th January 2021
Genre: Drum & Bass / Dubstep

For their DNO debut, The Untouchables blend their signature thrumming junglism with the Brighton imprint’s own sub-obsessed foundations — utilising a decade of percussive mastery to merge the two so immaculately as to make them one. Take the title track ‘Culture Clash’, where ricocheting polyrhythms bound around like particles gone berserk, giving the impression of rapidity — but take a closer look and it clocks in at a cool 140bpm.

Conversely, halftime stomper ‘Audacity’ may fit snugly into a d&b set, but the sheer sparsity of its snarling bassline and vicious kick drum give it a sluggish façade. ‘Galactic Noise’ brings a dramatic urgency, both in its alarm-like blasts and hungry beat, while the appropriately titled ‘Time Travellers’ throws countless curveballs of gruff low-end and idiosyncratic dub siren against its jungle framework. Finally, digital bonus track ‘China Haze’ unhinges from its dubstep pulse with a whirring sub and hefty smothering of delay and reverb.

Throughout each of the five tracks, the interplay of fast and slow makes the whole release as nourishing for the brain as it is for the feet — uniting styles divided by speed but bound together by their origins in soundsystem culture.

The Untouchables ‘Culture Clash’ EP lands on the 29th of January 2021 on 12” vinyl and digital.

Rhythms of postmodern realism at the very bottom of the DNO.

a1. The Untouchables - Audacity
a2. The Untouchables - Galactic Noise
b1. The Untouchables - Culture Clash
b2. The Untouchables - Time Travellers

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