Posts Tagged ‘ Underground Resistance ’
For a genre steeped in masks, aliases and anonymity from its onset, it’s impressive just how exceptionally enigmatic the duo behind Drexciya were among their Detroit techno contemporaries. Blending science fiction, mythology and, um, marine physics and biology, the pair crafted vivid portraits of a universe deep within the sea that came across like Bladerunner [ READ MORE ]
Remember when House Music used to be fun and upbeat? When it used to be about a joyous gathering of all kinds of people to dance together to a beat? John Collins certainly does and he’s packed 3 EPs with good time edits guaranteed to get everyone smiling and moving. Many people forget that Detroit [ READ MORE ]
UR’s Jon Dixon takes the simplest of things and makes them sound complex, but that is at the heart of jazz isn’t it? On this EP he calls upon the ghosts of Detroit’s jazz history with help from Saxophonist De’Sean Jones to create a synthesis rooted deeply in both jazz & techno. The first track [ READ MORE ]
The trio that makes up Pittsburgh Track Authority has been gaining steam via releases on Uzuri, Further, Love What You Feel, and now their eponymous Pittsburgh Tracks imprint. To begin the label-launching EP, they open with an untitled track that drifts between an agitated arpeggio reminiscent of Chicago Skyway or Tevo Howard and freestyle synth riffing [ READ MORE ]
With Radio Slide, Santiago Salazar records his second release under the Seldom Seen alias. His first was on Underground Resistance in 2004, and as the subtitle for this 12″ indicates, this is a kind of short anthology of what he’s been up to in the interim. These are funky, feverish, and a bit unhinged, the loose [ READ MORE ]