GUESTREVIEWS
JACK DUNNING, the R&S affiliated UK producer, isn’t your usual dubstep DJ. In fact, by today’s standards, he’s no longer a dubstep DJ at all. Putting a name on him is steeped in futility. Put simply, Dunning’s DJ persona, Untold, is techno with an original dubstep sensibility — but that’s not the half of it.
Besides, it’s not just his trailblazing role nudging the continuum that little bit further, his force mutating green shoots out of a movement blown out of all proportion at the end of the decade, that marks Untold out as a standalone figure. His choice of affability over cooler-than-thou posturing is refreshing too. Bottom line, Dunning is an easy- going, down-to-earth kinda guy. “Around 2009, I was making grime and house-influenced dubstep. Grime with elements of Green Velvet or Boo Williams or whatever, that is another thing I got into,” he doesn’t mind admitting to DJ Mag USA over the phone. “For me, it [techno] was something new. The movement was already established, but I just thought I could do my thing to it without people saying, ‘Hey, what you are doing isn’t dubstep’.”
More concerned with pushing the experimental end of the movement than tearing a new one into the crowd with big drop after big drop, the 4/4 formula has granted Jack the scope to take his sound to the next stage. His recent three- part EP ‘Change In A Dynamic Environment’ is a manifesto in itself, drawing upon the machinations of pure techno to alter the space and dimension of a dancefloor. Fed with added sub-bass and driven by percussion informed by his junglist roots, his trajectory — shuttled by his label Hemlock, which has just dropped his ‘Chapter One’ DJ mix — is still moving at breakneck pace; his tracks dust in the face of the many who follow. We asked him what he’s playing today...
Blawan ‘Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My
Garage’ Hingefinger
“Blawan’s most deranged work to date and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. It usually breaks out in a dancefloor sing-along for those that know, which is actually pretty sinister considering the lyrics.”
Mike Dehnert
‘Tracer’ Delsin
“Pounding kicks and subs on this one, evoking memories of early Ed Rush & Optical. Only for the headstrong!”
J. Tijn
‘Fucklebucks’ CDR
“Blisteringly hard grime delivered through techno. J. Tijn is nailing that current sound and definitely one to watch out for.”
Pangaea
‘Viaduct’ CDR
“Play from start to finish. A wonderful evolving arrangement that goes from Aphex-ish pads into twisted hardcore.”
Sei A
‘Hyphen’ Hemlock “Urgent, paranoid machine-driven funk.”
Terrence Dixon
‘Fountain Of Life’ Tresor
“A deep and melodic set opener, the hypnotic arpeggios and pads pull everyone in.”
djmag.com 039 UNTOLDIn the bag....
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