Unter Strom share third single 'Fragment'

Unter Strom have released "Fragment," their third single, marking a change in how the electronic duo work together. Their first two songs were built long-distance -- stems shared in the cloud, notes exchanged by text -- a workflow good enough that Above & Beyond, Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten and Markus Schulz all played the results in their sets.

"Fragment" broke that pattern. The duo made it in the same room, at Sound Factory in Los Angeles, over two days with no schedule and no deadline, trading places behind the boards and letting the track dictate when it was finished, which took a while, since every time the arrangement seemed to close, they reopened it and kept adding.

The result resists the loop-driven structure most club music runs on. Where a typical club track leans on eight-bar familiarity and a drop a room can feel coming from a mile away, "Fragment" keeps moving forward instead of settling into a repeating pattern, built from a techno and melodic house foundation with a layer of deliberate friction on top.

The track almost never left the booth. It started life as a live ID, the kind of unreleased weapon DJs keep to themselves for sets rather than release schedules, before Unter Strom decided to put it out properly.

"Fragment" is now the duo's third single and lands on the release calendar alongside the rest of the week's new electronic output.