7/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQv3dCkY2Tk

It's DEMF weekend during COVID. Detroit techno for the weekend.

I haven't listened to much associated with UR (at least not intentionally alone at my computer). They came up a good amount (for good reason) in Dan Sicko's techno rebels, with an emphasis on their rad / militant politcis -- but when I tried listening to tracks that sicko talked about, I remember them being a little Hard-techno for me. I feel silly now, because I am really enjoying Jupiter Jazz tonight, and other songs I've clicked around tonight have been perfect for 2:30AM alone on a laptop as well. Fitting that "Jupiter Jazz' is also the name of an episode of cowboy bebop (i think with the ... trans? piano player? could be wrong) and this track gives the same feeling of celestial beauty twinged by existential regret (??) as that show gives. Also, no, that is not the right term. How about:
Umwelt Weltraumstaub
(or would it be Weltraumstaub Umwelt?)
(maybe neither, google translate gave me space dust, and it translates to space dust environment?)
"The experience of being space dust" -- the feeling of never being to explore the cosmos actually / feeling of missing out on the future, but all twinged by a sort of future / cosmopolitan chic sadness? There must be a better name for this feeling, it is a "universal" feeling, after all ; )

Anyway - this live footage is more what I had associated UR with -- more hard techno:
https://mixmag.net/read/this-vintage-footage-of-underground-resistance-will-make-your-day-news

Anyway #2: Nice quote from Bill Brewster (who is quoting "Matthew Collin in 1991):
"If Belgian techno gives us the riffs, German techno the noice, British techno the breakbeats, then Detroit techno supplies the sheer cerebral depth...Europe may have the scene and the energy, but it's America which supplies the ideological direction"