12"

genre: CLASSIC TECHNO - DETROIT HOUSE - TECHNO DETROIT

label: Underground Resistance   Cat.No: UR-005

"UR Your Wonders" What would happen to Jazz if it was combined with the current electronic sound tools used to create Detroit techno?
What would Jazz sound like if fusion pioneers, such as Return to Forever, Astral Pirates or Weather Report, had access to the music production technologies available today or in the future? The art form called Jazz was a unique reflection of the "African American experience here in the United States." Unfortunately, by the 1990s, it had been compromised by major record labels and made more "smooth" for mainstream consumption and greater profits.
Born in the rural black south of the United States, Rock & Roll had suffered the same fate years before. The original artists were eventually replaced by well-studied clones and corporate mega-profits!! In addition, the original art form of Jazz seemed to have been captured, processed, and thoroughly EXPLAINED by people who tried to intellectualize "struggle and human emotions" in simple words and then gain immense financial benefit from being authorities on the subject.
Hmm, does that sound familiar to you?
As you observe the current intellectual colonization of poor city neighborhoods, African American art forms, such as house music, hip-hop, jungle, and Detroit techno, are being studied, bent, distorted, renamed, and turned into EDM profit formulas.
There are records like Nation 2 Nation that defy these definitions and inspire the next generation of pioneers who continue the indefinite exploration of Jazz like Derek. Jamerson, Jon Dixon, Raphael Merriweathers, Desean Jones, Timeline, Galaxy 2 Galaxy, Raphael Statin, and Ian Finkelstein. From mother to daughter, from father to son,
Nation 2 Nation is a work that was inspired by and has inspired what is to come. [info sheet from distribution]