Underground Resistance (musical collective)

Underground Resistance. Musical Collective. Detroit, MI: 1989-present. Genres: Detroit techno, electro, acid techno.[1]

Cited by Carmen Herold in "China’s Sonic Fictions: Music, Technology, and the Phantasma of a Sinicized Future," SFRA Review 50.2-3 (Spring-Summer 2020).[2]

Afrofuturism’s technological epiphanies and its narrations of extraterrestrial life play with the idea that, once displaced from their alien origins, Black bodies now live in an involuntary exile, often referred to as the Black Atlantic. This is, for instance, reflected in the progressive sound of tracks such as Cyberwolf, Death Star, or Punisher by Detroit techno label Underground Resistance. In the whirl of cyber utopia, they not only point to the post-industrial void of the Motocity, but are also carried by a last desperate attempt to unfold a Black future [...] [, joining other art works in demonstrating] how Black technologies like blues or hiphop are key to overwriting prevailing techno-narratives and unlocking new spheres of existence, namely the Afro-future.

RDE, finishing, 25Oct21