Unter Strøm share their third single ‘Fragment’

1 min read Most electronic duos are built on file transfers. Stems in the cloud, notes in the texts, a track that gets assembled async. Unter Strøm created their first two singles working exactly that way, and it worked well enough that Above & Beyond, Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, and Markus Schulz all put the tracks into their sets. “Fragment” is what happened when they got together in the same room. The room was Sound Factory in Los Angeles. Two days, no schedule, no deadline. The guys traded places behind the boards and let the track tell them when it was finished. And it kept declining to be finished. Every time the arrangement closed, they pried it back open and added more. Club music runs on loops. The eight-bar familiarity, the drop you can feel coming from a mile away, the patterns that let a room move in unison because everyone already knows what’s next. “Fragment” isn’t that. It moves forward and mostly doesn’t look back, a composition that keeps mutating instead of settling into a pattern. Techno and melodic house are the foundation and the rest is a carefully constructed friction. The track was never supposed to leave the booth. “Fragment” started life as a live...