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Classic jazzy Detroit house / techno from the early days of Mad Mike's UR operation.

UR wonders: What happens to jazz if combined with the current electronic sound tools used to make Detroit techno now?

What might jazz sound like if the inspirational pioneers of fusion ie; Return to Forever, Astral Pirates or Weather Report had access to the music production technology available now or in the future?

The artform called jazz was a unique reflection of The African American experience in the United States. Unfortunately by the 90″s it had been compromised by major record companies and made smoother for mainstream consumption and more profits.

Born in America’s rural black south rock & roll had suffered the same fate years earlier. Original artists eventually replaced by well studied clones and corporate mega profits!! Also happening the original artform of jazz appeared to be caught, processed & throughly EXPLAINED by people who sought to intellectualize struggle & human emotion into mere words and then benefit immensely financially by being authorities on the subject.

Hmm sound familiar?

As you watch the current intellectual colonization of the urban inner city African American art forms house music, hip-hop, jungle & Detroit techno get studied, bent, twisted renamed and turned into EDM profit formulas.

There stands records like "Nation 2 Nation" that defy these definitions and inspire the next generation of Pioneers who continue the undefined exploration of jazz like Derek Jamerson, Jon Dixon, Raphael Merriweathers, Desean Jones, Timeline, Galaxy 2 Galaxy, Raphael Statin & Ian Finkelstein. Mother to daughter, Father to son, "Nation 2 Nation" is a work inspired and that inspired what’s next.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Big Stone Lake
A2. Sometimes I Feel Like
A3. Nation 2 Nation
B1. Body And Soul
B2. The Theory (Mind Mix)
B3. 303 Sunset