Mike Banks and Jeff Mills, the “genesis of Underground Resistance” - reunite to perform as X-102 at Sonar in Barcelona this year.

<72pt>Gobsmacked!</72pt>

In 1989, “Mad” Mike Banks and Jeff Mills laid the first stone of Underground Resistance, and by doing so changed the face of techno forever. Few people have had an impact as intense as UR, a label that has always been linked to ideas like “militant”, “pioneering” and “advanced”. Fifteen years later, Banks and Mills return to their X-102 project to take a new version of an absolutely legendary piece from the UR catalogue and part of electronic history to the stage: “X-102 - Discovers The Rings Of Saturn”, created with Robert Hood and published in 1992. A soundtrack created live to accompany the latest images (never seen) of Saturn, obtained by the unmanned Cassini-Huygens space mission. It is a conceptual tour de force which explores all the aspects of this mysterious planet, including its rings and moons, at the classic co-ordinates of UR: with echoes of science fiction, the best Detroit techno imaginable and a pure underground spirit.

If only I could start my Euro trip this year, one week earlier.