- Despite vast differences between the artists on its roster, there's a distinct UNO aesthetic: a clinical touch, a focus on daringness and technical bravura perhaps best encapsulated by Fatima Al Qadiri's Genre-Specific Xperience EP. Similarly, Aquarian's debut EP, Obsidian, was a fusion of techno and dubstep that sounded wholly alien and hyper-modern.
Aquarian's latest single for the label, Fan Death, shares his debut's surgical precision and emotional aloofness, but here he typifies the cultural omnivorousness UNO is associated with. Given both instrumental grime and footwork's recent spread outside their respective London and Chicago heartlands, there's something fitting about how Leung folds their tropes into his own abrasive blueprint. "Fan Death" is all hard edges and is almost cruelly simplistic: scattergun snares, a spare bassline, an Eski synth line and vocal samples pitch-bent into bizarre shapes. Its parts are minimal, but taken together they constitute a jarring onslaught. Traxman's footwork remix, with racing percussion and a siren-like synth, warps "Fan Death" into something even more vicious and frenzied than the original.
Tracklist01. Fan Death
02. Fan Death (Traxman Remix)