UR – The Final Frontier

Underground Resistance reissue ‘The Final Frontier’, one of many lesser-spotted records to emerge from the many subterranean bore-holes they’d dug under Detroit, pre-1995. Produced under the UR namesake by the momentarily errant Mad Mike Banks, ‘The Final Frontier’ opens with a titular acid skipper, not long before a mathematically-minded ascender *avant la lettre*, ‘Entering Quadrant Five’, hears blooping, arpy, archic counterpoints arise, layer on layer, as if we’d taken flight aboard a starship, and now find ourselves accelerating against the flow of a cosmic cataract. The B offers a vision of meanwhile, beaming us down to ‘Base Camp Alpha 808’, which hears a comparatively Promethean fusion of hand drum and drum machine.