S & D :. underground resistance

as of when the article was written, yep. they just came out with a string of new releases.

like the new skurge record, which is also quite ill. very in sync with his djing style, too.

so, i've been thinking about UR a lot recently, and i think that one of the more major developments is that their newer talent/crew members are repping the group just as much as the older heads, putting out great records and spinning masterfully. not to rep my interview too much, but S2, Skurge and particularly Dex are tearing it up like the best of the UR heads. the 'invisible showcase' mix that Dex put out is evidence of this.

anyway, i was talking about it with one of the dudes at halcyon, and i thought it kind of an interesting shift in the UR catalog/culture.

Nomadico is from LA? I wansn't going up there that often in 2002 but I was paying attention to what was going on and I don't remember seeing him on lineups that much. I'll be bummed if he was playing all the time and I missed it. S2 (santiago salazar) has moved back here, though, so I get to see him often now. A great dude and producer.

where's the love for Electronic Warfare 2.0 - The Other Side Of Bling? http://www.discogs.com/release/1003881

Just discovered "Timeline" like a week ago, thanks to this clip of certainly impressive dancing to Timeline sped up to 170 or so BPM.

Wonderful track.

so great

theres no UR compilation you can buy is there?

what are you talking about, there are plenty

take your pick

i highly recommend "depth charge 1", "noctorbulous behavior - the mix" and "a hi tech jazz compilation"

oh and the "aztec mystic mix"

anything mixed by Dex is the bizness, he is fucking awesome.

Or track down the amaaaaaaazing mix The Black Dog did for Resident Advisor that's completely UR. Best RA mix I've ever heard.

that one's free!

i am gonna rep again for the virtually free in any record store THE HOSTILE AMUSH 12", because really, "Ambush" is just one of the deepest techno tracks of all time.

The new WPA record is hot.

ATTN: UR fanatics, can you help me ID a UR song? It's on the all-UR Black Dog RA podcast, at around 18:44 between "In or Out" and "Death Of My Neighborhood", there's some sort of beepy ringing sound going on that sounds reminiscent of a telephone, and I can't figure out if it's a bit from another song or if it's just some weird sound Black Dog added themselves. I'm pretty certain the song in question isn't "Maroon" like all the tracklists say

weird that i'm answering this now, stevie, but could that be Dopplereffekt?

anyway, interviewed Rolando (aka the Aztec Mystic) today. he was very nice, though a bit reluctant to talk about the old times (he's no longer associated with UR or Submerge).

and again that Nocturbulous Behaviour mix-cd by Suburban Knight is excellent, collects a lot of U.R. classics in one mix.

raining acid at my place right about now

Is it worth dropping a whole bunch of money on the galaxy 2 galaxy double cd compilation (I already have the repressed world to world and galaxy 2 galaxy 12" inches for what it's worth)? This is a weird case of seeing it on sale, priced appropriately, but in a country where cds are v. expensive all across the board.

no, not really worth it if you have the 12s

fwiw it's probably my UR "desert island disc" and i listen to it more than any of the other UR CDs i have

Not sure if this was talked about elsewhere, but Violet w/Nancy Whang, Coco Solid, A.M.O.R. & Nightwave recorded a multilingual cover of "Transition" for International Women's Day:
https://soundcloud.com/violet/transition-ft-amor-nightwave-nancy-whang-mamacita-coco-solid-underground-resistance-cover

very cool

Nice idea, so so execution.

agreed. i think it would have been more interesting if it diverged more from the original.

i mean, the original is awesome, and the cover is a really great track too, but i would have liked to hear a fresher spin on it

The photo of Andre Holland at Discogs is rather surprising.

Just been listened to the Laurent Garnier disc from the Kings of Techno 2-CD (with Carl Craig on disc 2) from a few years back.

It ends with a glorious live version of Amazon that opens with a Mike Banks shout-out to various UR friends and affiliates over crowd whoops and some nice slowed-down spacey chords from the track.

Given that the rest of the disc has Garnier dropping in news reports, interviews, other speech sample etc I'm assuming that this "live version" is something he's put together to round the mix out - when the tune properly drops it doesn't sound very live or that different to the studio version. But it's great, and I have to say I'm intrigued - does anyone know anything else about this version and where its constituent parts might come from?

I have been playing the shit out of the Galaxy 2 Galaxy: High Tech Jazz compilation lately. I've scoured this thread and have a pretty good sense of the early UR cannon (like 1990-1998), but what's their best work after that? I think my all-time fav UR track is "Transition" which is from 2002 and makes me think there must be so much good later stuff too

I also want to know the answer to this question

I also do not know the answer to this question. The first Los Hermanos album is the most recent related thing I'm really aware of. submerge.com has been mothballed / in redevelopment for years now.

On the G2G album is that Mike Banks shredding on Momma's Basement (the original, not the very different 12" Mix that's on the European edition)?

Not sure there is that much post 1998. Obviously Rolando's Jaguar, Los Hermanos Quetzal and Birth of 3000. Inspiration - the b side to Transition - was great too.

Oh and Santiago Salazar, who was one half of Los Hermanos with Rolando. His Chicanisimo album from 2015 was pretty good iirc

Just remembered Timeline of Millenium To Millenium, that was decent too

All of the stuff from Aquanauts and Nomadico is also really essential. This one came up a lot for me during the early period of Covid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQf5N3dhoa8

Hi-Tech Dreams is also good, anything by Skurge or Jon Collins is good, and the Electronic Warfare 2.0 has some decent stuff, in particular this excellent track by Marc Floyd under his Von Floyd alias.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyCENXBQhfM&t=94s

That Aquanauts track is sick

It is! For a while I would put it on while watching this great vid of cruiseships in heavy storms at sea, and it really did the trick.

Tbh I think there's a lot of great stuff after 98 or 99, it's just that it hasn't been high profile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPlRBcYC45Q

I'd be v happy to be proved wrong and that's not a bad start

This Nomadico track is sick, another example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq_2VK3R9HM

Ooft

Weren’t UR meant to be starting a Bandcamp a while back? I’m sure I saw that they were getting out of vinyl and going all digital.

(Would still love someone to shine some light on that live version of Amazon I mentioned upthread if anyone’s got any clues!)

they were trying to do a Submerge mp3 store, from my remembrance...

tbh, i do wonder what has stopped a more robust mp3 store from emerging. i've always thought it was a lack of resources and a healthy ludditism, but am unsure at this point— they did a collab with Carhartt in Europe, they're still putting out occasional records, so i just feel like there's something happening organizationally?

Think that version of Amazon is off of this https://www.discogs.com/Los-Hermanos-Mr-De-Galaxy-2-Galaxy-Submerge-Live-In-Japan/release/722626

but i might be wrong... doing further investigation,,,,and no, i was wrong, it's from this set at the Rex Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4uJuidSj7g

The digital catalogue was sporadically available for a bit - I got Hi Tech Dreams off Emusic - but it’s really hit and miss. I’d spend a LOT of money on a UR Bandcamp.

Thanks for the Amazon lead!