Who knew that Underground Resistance had a sub-label dedicated to some of the most bouncy sunny-side up piano house around?
Mad Mike even renamed himself Glad Mike for this perky little number (not really - but he should have)
I was hoping for a Doors sample in that one.
A lot of the organic-y keyboard sounds remind me of "Plastic Dreams", one of the not-hardcore tunes of that time that I really loved. Fantastic record, but very far indeed from the extremes of militancy elsewhere brewing, from jungle techno to gabber to UR themselves.
It's doing my head in a bit - these are the people who did "Death Star" and "Rage" and tracks dedicated to things like the U-boat crews's unchivalrous torpedo-without-a-warning approach to victory at all costs!
Then again, I suppose - really quite soon, with the Martian releases and Galaxy 2 Galaxy and "Hi-Tech Jazz" and that kind of thing, Mike Banks would be outing his secret George Benson-loving side, within the UR-the-label discography. Not shunted to a sub-label.
Divas n' all!
Did they just fancy a bit of that Crystal Waters crossover action?
This next one is by the son of James Jamerson Jnr, aka the mighty bassman on all those Motown eternals
sad-not-glad ending to his story, though - "found death in Denver, Colorado on April 2006 (aged 39)"
A typo (presumably meant to write ''found dead") that is unexpectedly poetic...
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"Then again, I suppose - really quite soon, with the Martian releases and Galaxy 2 Galaxy and "Hi-Tech Jazz" and that kind of thing, Mike Banks would be outing his secret George Benson-loving side, within the UR-the-label discography. Not shunted to a sub-label.
Divas n' all!"
It's tbf the same as people like randall playing the proper dark stuff in 93 and then moving onto the more jazz inflected sounds of 94-95. Rage and militancy are an aesthetic amongst many, whereas most euro techno fans I talk to can't seem to understand this about jungle and mostly only exclusively prefer the dark stuff.
actually the 93 dark parallel really does work, because the simply rollin' remix of dub plate is perfectly poised between 93 gloom and a mellow piano breakdown of 94. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhpYr4EJIkc
Played by ratty on one of my favourite tapes, the edge sp1.
this is the tape. here you can see the dark stuff organically mutating into the more reflective vibes. https://soundcloud.com/magpie303/ratty-sp1-the-edge-experience-part-1
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