Underground Resistance was a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan. They were the most militantly political example of Detroit Techno with a grungy sound and an anti-mainstream business strategy. The collective formed near the end of the 80's and related their music to the President Reagan era inner-city economic recession. Robert Hood joined the group after the cross-over into the nineties.
As rave music began to flourish in the early nineties and techno had turned into gabber, Robert Hood felt that the soul of techno was becoming lost. He disagreed with the notion of techno transforming to be geared to ravers. When people complained that techno did not have enough feeling, producers began to add vocals with a piano on top of the music so that it would appeal to more people. Robert Hood wanted to bring techno back to the way it was meant to be and make it more underground again. This notion brought about the concept of minimalism in techno and house music.
At the time Robert Hood described minimal techno as "Stripped down. It's just drums, basslines, and only what is essential to make people move." The concept caught on a few years afterward in house music, creating the genre known as microhouse. It also similarly helped to inspire a style called glitch.
The origins of the glitch aesthetic can be traced back to noise music. In a Computer Music Journal article published in 2000, composer and writer Kim Cascone used the term post-digital to describe various experimentations associated with the glitch aesthetic. Glitch is characterized by a preoccupation with the sonic artifacts that can result from malfunctioning digital technology, such as those produced by bugs, crashes, system errors, hardware noise, CD skipping, and digital distortion.
Minimal techno had not become widely popular throughout the many peaks of the rave scene. During the year 2001 there was a final insurgence of new ravers and new clubbers. Every new wave of partygoers often resulted in a more closed-minded approach to music, ignoring lesser known genres or more underground genres.
The Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) continued to give Detroit and its overlooked history of electronic music major exposure both locally and nationally. Each festival has been held at Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit, and has been sanctioned and financially supported by the City of Detroit. The city's support for the festival has been seen by many as the first high-profile acknowledgment and celebration of the city as the birthplace of techno music.
This mix incorporates a mixture of deep minimal techno paired with ambient & downbeat - all were selections from between the years 2000-2001.
Markus Guentner - Aepfel & Birnen
Sutekh - Dumpster
Betrieb - Gobe Landschaft Mit Kuh
Peter F. Spiess - Symbol Shift
Goldfish Und Der Dulz - Couch Legere
Bjoern Stolpmann - Being So Nice
Audision - Gamma Limit
Dick Richards - Breathe
Savvas Ysatis - On The Hook
Hakan Lidbo - Wiretripping
