Biography: Ultra Naté, Ultra-Red, Ultramarine, Ultraviolence, Uman, Umek, Una Mas, Uncanny Alliance, Underground Resistance, Underwolves,

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One of the most flamboyant and talented house divas of the 1990s, Ultra Naté stayed true to the dance mainstream despite major-label interference; though she began her career with Warner Brothers, by the late ’90s she was recording for the indie dance heavyweight Strictly Rhythm and enjoying more success than she had before

Los Angeles audio collective Ultra-red was organized in 1994 by Dont Rhine and Marco Larsen, who previously teamed in the performing arts troupe bang!manifesto First launching their own ambient club, dubbed Public Space, the duo also published their own newsletter, Contact: Earth Orbit Rendezvous, which outlined their concept of ambient music as the sound culture of everyday life

The music of Canterbury duo Ultramarine resists easy classification, drawing as it does from ambient, techno, folk, and eclectic ’70s Canterbury art rock artists like the Soft Machine, Caravan, and Robert Wyatt, who occasionally performed live with the group and appeared on their United Kingdoms album

Ultraviolence Biography, Photos, Pictures

The Earache label, renowned for its roster of harsh grindcore acts — Godflesh, Carcass, Fudge Tunnel — moved into the sympathetic world of hardcore gabber techno with the signing of Ultraviolence, masterminded by one Johnny Violent

Mixing Enya and Cocteau Twins-style ethereality with Enigma/Deep Forest-esque ethnic dance fusions and ambient electronics, the French group Uman is composed of brother and sister Didier (keyboards) and Danielle Jean (vocals), plus frequent collaborator Zad

DJ/producer and Consumer Recreation Records owner Umek (born Uros Umek) aka Votter orginally listened to acid house before getting seriously involved in techno Born and raised in Lubljana, Slovenia the young dance music enthusiast began DJing in 1993

British production team Una Mas (one more in Spanish language) comprises songwriter Simon Law and former assistant engineer Lee Hambin They met at Fallout Shelter studios before deciding to start working together for different dance music artists

Uncanny Alliance Biography, Photos, Pictures

Producer Brinsley Evans and female vocalist EV Mystique formed the house/funk team Uncanny Alliance in New York City in 1992 After “I Got My Education” began getting play in clubs, major labels started bidding for the duo’s services

Underground Resistance Biography, Photos, Pictures

Underground Resistance is probably the most militantly political outcropping of modern urban American techno Combining a grubby, four-track aesthetic, an almost strictly DIY business philosophy, and an oppositional, militaristic ethos similar to Public Enemy without the drama (or the familiarity; the members refuse to be photographed without bandanas obscuring their identities), UR have redirected their portion of the Detroit techno legacy to social activist ends, trading mainstream popularity and financial success for independence and self-determination

Though many in the jazzy drum’n’bass movement have little understanding of the music they’re often sampling, the duo Underwolves are long-time jazz listeners (and record dealers)

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