Returning to his recent album Evaporator, released on InFiné in February, Nathan Fake invites a fresh wave of reinterpretations for one of the album’s most explosive moments, Hypercube. The original is driven by a synth line that kind of fuses rave nostalgia with more contemporary, experimental playfulness. The track now mutates across a new remix EP courtesy of Basile3, Tukan, Nathan Fake himself and, on remix duties for our feature track, Mac Seldom.
Mac Seldom snatches Hypercube out of that ‘reach for the lasers’ airyness and plunges it into a furiously bubbling mire of something grimier and more unhinged, rebuilding the original around distorted low-end, snapping electro drums and fried analogue textures.
A thick wall of warpy bass surges underneath the twitchy percussion, while fragments of the original synth-work flickers in and out of view like the sparking ends of loose wire. Part rave weapon and oddball electro tool, it’s a track that feels purpose-built for those moments deep into a set, when the DJ needs to wrest attention with unreasonable force back to the music.
‘Hypercube EP’ by Nathan Fake will be released 22 May via InFiné, order the digital from Bandcamp. Buy a copy of the album on Inverted Audio Record Store.
TRACKLIST
1. Hypercube (Hard Version)
2. Hypercube (Basile3 Remix)
3. Hypercube (Mac Seldom Remix)
4. Hypercube (Tukan Rework)
5. Hypercube (Original Version)