UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE
This weekend I was so fortunate as to be able to see Underground Resistance perform at the Today's Art festival in Den Haag. In the 16 years or so of their existence they never played in Holland before. The program promised the entire Galaxy2Galaxy band as well as the younger generation Interstellar Fugitives band. Due to the unforeseen absence of some of the G2G members they merged into a 'special' Interstellar Fugitives outfit.The band performed 'back to back' with their DJ's, playing a few songs and then be swapped over by half hour DJ sets. I was blown away. Apart from the fact that I was well chuffed that none of them showed up with any CDs (the DJs) nor laptops (the band) I suppose I wasn't prepared to get a full injection of proper soul-music. They were absolutely amazing and the music managed to open quite a few forgotten doors in the memory bank filled with stuff I experience when I hear their music. WOW. WOW. WOW.
I woke up the next day whilst having dreamt to the Jaguar as background music in my dreams... ran to my record shelves, blew the dust of my UR collection and played some old favorites of mine... Jupiter Jazz, Orbit, Elimination, Final Frontier... Gawd these tracks have changed my life FOREVER!
Mad Mike and crew, thank you for doing what you did, for doing what you are still doing, your music has given me life inspiration, then and now and for the rest of my life :)
