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Interstellar Fugitives by Underground Resistance album cover
Number 125 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century20th CenturyDetroit TechnoTechno

Interstellar Fugitives

Underground Resistance

1998 · Detroit techno · techno · electro

Underground Resistance · UR-045

125 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century

Militant, collective, deliberately unpleasant; techno as political programme

Interstellar Fugitives gives Underground Resistance enough album space to make the politics feel structural rather than decorative. The sequencing, voices and hard-edged production keep pulling the record back toward collective purpose. It is demanding because the music refuses to separate message from method. The hostility limits its reach. As a statement of intent nothing here matches it.

6 on The 10 Best Detroit Techno Albums

Plain sleeve, no faces, and a political position argued through sound rather than a press release. The collective's fullest statement, made while techno's politics were being written out of its history elsewhere.

7 on The 10 Best Techno Albums

Plain sleeve, no faces, and a position argued through sound rather than a press release. UR made techno a politics as much as a music, and this is where the collective states the case at full length.

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Tracklist

  1. A1Maroon4:58
  2. A2Nannytown5:08
  3. B1Soulsaver5:26
  4. B2Mi Raza4:00
  5. C1Mirage5:12
  6. C2Afrogermanic4:18
  7. D1Aquatacizem7:07
  8. D2Thought 12:20
  9. E1Moor Horseman On Bolarus 54:15
  10. E2Thought 22:20
  11. F1Unabomber4:28
  12. F2Negative Evolution3:50