Galaxy 2 Galaxy is a live electronic

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 and jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 music collective featuring members of Underground Resistance

Underground Resistance

Underground Resistance is a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. They are the most militantly political example of modern Detroit Techno, with a grungy, four-track musical aesthetic and a strictly anti-mainstream business strategy...

. The name comes from an EP created by Mike Banks

Mike Banks (musician)

Michael Anthony Banks, better known as "Mad" Mike Banks, is an American techno producer. He is the co-founder, along with Jeff Mills, of US record label Underground Resistance and was a key player in the "second generation" of Detroit techno....

 in 1993. Fame in the techno

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

 community rose from the release of A High Tech Jazz Compilation in 2005.

History

Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills is an American techno DJ and producer.-Career:Starting in the early 1980s, Mills, using the name "The Wizard", was a recurring guest DJ on "The Electrifying Mojo" radio show on WJLB...

 and Mike Banks

Mike Banks (musician)

Michael Anthony Banks, better known as "Mad" Mike Banks, is an American techno producer. He is the co-founder, along with Jeff Mills, of US record label Underground Resistance and was a key player in the "second generation" of Detroit techno....

 had an idea that Jazz music and musicians could operate with the same "man machine" doctrine

Doctrine

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 that was seen in Kraftwerk's

Kraftwerk

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 music. This was presaged by early experiments with synthesisers and jazz by artists including Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...

, Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

, Weather Report

Weather Report

Weather Report was an American jazz-rock band of the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was co-led by the Austrian-born keyboard player Joe Zawinul and the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter...

, Return to Forever

Return to Forever

Return to Forever is a jazz fusion group founded and led by keyboardist Chick Corea. Through its existence, the band has cycled through a number of different members, with the only consistent band mate of Corea's being bassist Stanley Clarke...

, Larry Heard

Larry Heard

Larry Heard is a Memphis, Tennessee-based musician widely known for the Chicago-based house music he produced during the mid-1980s and continues to produce today. He was leader of the influential group Fingers Inc. and has recorded solo under various names, most notably Mr...

 and Lenny White's

Lenny White

Leonard White III, better known as Lenny White is an American jazz fusion drummer, who is best known for playing in Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:...

 Astral Pirates. This pointed them in this direction and led to the first Hi-Tech Jazz release on UR

Underground Resistance

Underground Resistance is a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. They are the most militantly political example of modern Detroit Techno, with a grungy, four-track musical aesthetic and a strictly anti-mainstream business strategy...

 which was Nation 2 Nation in 1990. "Mad Mike" Banks

Mike Banks (musician)

Michael Anthony Banks, better known as "Mad" Mike Banks, is an American techno producer. He is the co-founder, along with Jeff Mills, of US record label Underground Resistance and was a key player in the "second generation" of Detroit techno....

 subsequently released the Galaxy 2 Galaxy EP on UR

Underground Resistance

Underground Resistance is a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. They are the most militantly political example of modern Detroit Techno, with a grungy, four-track musical aesthetic and a strictly anti-mainstream business strategy...

 in 1993.

This EP was an example of Hi-Tech Jazz (also known as Hi-Tech Soul), which was a style of music pioneered by UR and named after the track on this EP. Subsequently the tracks Journey of the Dragons and Hi-Tech Jazz have appeared on a number of compilations by artists including Danny Krivit and Laurent Garnier

Laurent Garnier

Laurent Garnier , is a French techno music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJ-ing in Manchester during the late 1980s. By the following decade, he had a broad stylistic range, able to span deep house, Detroit techno, trance and jazz...

. On these compilations, rather than credit Banks, the tracks were attributed to Galaxy 2 Galaxy.

Having created this EP, Mike Banks did not use the name Galaxy 2 Galaxy again. However, from 2005 to commemorate the Tsunami Disaster Relief, the name was used as a name for various members of Underground Resistance

Underground Resistance

Underground Resistance is a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. They are the most militantly political example of modern Detroit Techno, with a grungy, four-track musical aesthetic and a strictly anti-mainstream business strategy...

 playing live, using the same concept as Timeline

Timeline

A timeline is a way of displaying a list of events in chronological order, sometimes described as a project artifact . It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labeled with dates alongside itself and events labeled on points where they would have happened.-Uses of timelines:Timelines...

. This live band includes such notables from the UR stable as Santiago Salazar, DJ Dex, Gerald Mitchell, Raphael Merriweathers Jr. and Mike Banks

Mike Banks (musician)

Michael Anthony Banks, better known as "Mad" Mike Banks, is an American techno producer. He is the co-founder, along with Jeff Mills, of US record label Underground Resistance and was a key player in the "second generation" of Detroit techno....

.

Galaxy 2 Galaxy tracklist

A1 Hi-Tech Jazz (The Science)

A2 Hi-Tech Jazz (The Elements)

B1 Journey Of The Dragons

B2 Star Sailing

C1 Astral Apache (Star Stories)

C2 Deep Space 9 (A Brother Runs This Ship)

D1 Rhythm Of Infinity

D2 Metamorphosis

Other

Disc 1

1 Metamorphosis (3:26)

2 Transition (6:23)

3 The Theory (Mind Mix) (2:25)

4 Return Of The Dragons (7:14)

5 Big Stone Lake (4:18)

6 Sometimes I Feel Like (6:14)

7 Body And Soul (5:32)

8 Nation 2 Nation (5:19)

9 303 Sunset (3:25)

10 A Moment In Time (3:09)

11 Jupiter Jazz (4:30)

12 Amazon (4:36)

13 Astral Apache (5:20)

14 Deep Space 9 (5:46)


Disc 2

1 Hi-Tech Jazz (5:37)

2 Star Sailing (6:31)

3 Windchime (6:09)

4 Timeline (6:35)

5 First Galactic Baptist Church (7:11)

6 Inspiration (6:31)

7 Momma's Basement (7:09)

8 Afro's, Arps And Minimoogs (12" Mix) (6:48)