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Underground Resistance (commonly abbreviated to UR) is a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
, in the United States of America. They are the most militantly political example of modern Detroit Techno
Detroit techno

Detroit techno is an early style of electronic music beginning in 1980s. Detroit has been cited as the birthplace of techno music. Prominent Detroit Techno artists include Juan Atkins, Derrick May , and Kevin Saunderson....
, with a grungy, four-track musical aesthetic and a strictly anti-mainstream business strategy. They have exerted their portion of Detroit Techno's cultural influence towards promoting political activism.

Begun in the late 1980s by Jeff Mills
Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills is an influential Techno music DJ and music producer from Detroit....
 and "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 United States record label Underground Resistance and was a key player in the "second generation" of Detroit techno....
, UR related the aesthetics
Aesthetics

Aesthetics or esthetics is commonly known as the study of senses or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste ....
 of early Detroit Techno to the complex social, political, and economic circumstances which followed on from Reagan
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
-era inner-city economic recession, producing uncompromising music geared toward promoting awareness and facilitating political change.






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Underground Resistance (commonly abbreviated to UR) is a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
, in the United States of America. They are the most militantly political example of modern Detroit Techno
Detroit techno

Detroit techno is an early style of electronic music beginning in 1980s. Detroit has been cited as the birthplace of techno music. Prominent Detroit Techno artists include Juan Atkins, Derrick May , and Kevin Saunderson....
, with a grungy, four-track musical aesthetic and a strictly anti-mainstream business strategy. They have exerted their portion of Detroit Techno's cultural influence towards promoting political activism.

Begun in the late 1980s by Jeff Mills
Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills is an influential Techno music DJ and music producer from Detroit....
 and "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 United States record label Underground Resistance and was a key player in the "second generation" of Detroit techno....
, UR related the aesthetics
Aesthetics

Aesthetics or esthetics is commonly known as the study of senses or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste ....
 of early Detroit Techno to the complex social, political, and economic circumstances which followed on from Reagan
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
-era inner-city economic recession, producing uncompromising music geared toward promoting awareness and facilitating political change. Later Robert "Noise" Hood
Robert Hood

Robert Hood is an American electronic music producer and disc jockey. He is a founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with Mad Mike Banks & Jeff Mills....
 joined the collective.

As with Public Enemy, there have been intimations that UR's subversively 'militant' approach to music was related to the activities of the Black Panthers in the 1970s, something Mills confirmed in an interview.

Many of Underground Resistance's labelmate's early releases were the product of various experiments by Banks, Mills, and Hood, both solo and in collaboration, before Mills and Hood left the collective in 1992 to achieve international success as solo artists and DJs. Mike Banks continued to lead UR in the wake of the split, releasing EPs during the mid-1990s such as "Return of Acid Rain," "Message to the Majors," and "Galaxy to Galaxy" under the UR name, as well as 12-inches by increasingly renowned artists such as Drexciya
Drexciya

Drexciya was an electronic music band from Detroit, Michigan. The late James Stinson was the only officially identified member of Drexciya, but it was considered an open secret that he had a partner, Gerald Donald....
.

UR tracks have occasionally been released on other labels (usually in what UR metaphorically describe as "reconnaissance" or "infiltration").

1998's "Interstellar Fugitives", the first full album credited to Underground Resistance, saw Mike Banks redefining the collective's sound as "High-Tech Funk", reflecting a shift in emphasis from hard, minimal club Techno to breakbeats, Electro and even occasionally Drum and Bass
Drum and bass

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 and down-tempo Hip-Hop
Hip hop music

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. In 1999, newcomer DJ Rolando
DJ Rolando

DJ Rolando is a Latin-American techno DJ and producer from Detroit, Michigan, USA. He releases music with the groups Underground Resistance and Los Hermanos....
 released UR's most commercially successful EP, "The Knights of The Jaguar".

In 2000, Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from D?sseldorf, Germany. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, Repetitive music rhythms with catchy melody, mainly following a Western classical music style of harmony, with a minimalism and strictly electronic instrumentation....
 released a remix single of their theme composed for the Expo 2000 in Hanover, featuring contributions from Rolando and Banks, making them two of only a handful of producers ever to be given the privilege of remixing Kraftwerk. From 2002 onwards, Kraftwerk's live shows featured the group performing UR's remixes compiled in the song now called "Planet of Visions".

Discography

  • Your Time Is Up
  • Sonic
  • The Final Frontier
  • Waveform
  • Nation 2 Nation
  • The Prince Of Techno
  • Living For The Night
  • Gyroscopic
  • Elimination
  • Riot EP
  • Nocturbulous Behavior
  • Fuel For The Fire / Attend The Riot
  • Sonic Destroyer
  • G-Force
  • UR015 Mad Mike / Octave One - Aztlan / DayStar Rising
  • Living For The Night
  • The Punisher
  • The Fury
  • M.I.A
  • BX-A
  • UR019.5 X-102 - Groundzero
  • World 2 World
  • Pirahna
  • Crime Report
  • Death Star
  • Message To The Majors
  • The Return of Acid Rain - The Storm Continues
  • Galaxy 2 Galaxy
  • Bubble Metropolis
  • Black Moon Rising
  • Acid Rain III
  • Dark Energy
  • Aquatic Attack
  • Undetectable
  • City Of Fear
  • Electronic Warfare
  • UR034 UR - Electronic Warfare the mixes
  • The Aztec Mystic
  • By Night
  • The Return Of Drexciya
  • Code Breaker
  • I'm In
  • Ambush
  • Turning Point
  • Condition Red EP
  • Hardlife
  • Interstellar Fugitives
  • Antimatter Premium Unleaded / Frequency Snowstorm
  • Speeding Like the Killer Bees
  • Knights Of The Jaguar
  • The Aztec Mystic Mix
  • Hidden In Plainsight


  • Don't You Want It
  • UR 27R Venomous - The Toxin / The Charmer / Snake Talk
  • Hi-Tech Jazz
  • UR 31R Dark Paradise - Aurora / Black Strategy
  • UR 040R UR - Analog Assassin / Subsonic Shadow


  • Revenge Of The Jaguar
  • Millennium To Millennium
  • Inspiration / Transition
  • URCD 3000-2 various mixed by DJ Rolando - Vibrations


Remixes

  • 1991 Digital Boy - "This Is Mutha F**ker!"
  • 1991 The Reese Project - "Direct Me"
  • 1992 Bass Probe - "Mind Experiments"
  • 1992 Chez Damier - "Can You Feel It"
  • 1992 Ingator II - "Skyscratch (Mano Mano)"
  • 1992 Måuriziö - "Ploy"
  • 1992 The Reese Project - "The Colour of Love"
  • 1993 Seven Grand Housing Authority - "The Question"
  • 1997 Rashid Salaam - "'D' Old Skool Dances"
  • 2000 Kraftwerk
    Kraftwerk

    Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from D?sseldorf, Germany. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, Repetitive music rhythms with catchy melody, mainly following a Western classical music style of harmony, with a minimalism and strictly electronic instrumentation....
     - "Expo 2000"
  • 2002 Model 600 - "Update"
  • 2006 Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode

    Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
     - "People Are People"


Footnotes


See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...


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