UR* ‎– The Final Frontier

'The Final Fontier', best Detroit Techno, Electronic record ever.

epic release.

you can get this from submerge.com for 5.99usd as of date of this post

UR003 A record for peoples of different plume, techno purist will love it, breaker crews will love it, Tom Dick & Harry will love it. It is a universal track that resonates at any wave, it is a monolith of a track!!

The Final Frontier is just.. something nonterrestrial, and at the same time its atmosphere and feel of grief is familiar to everybody..
It's sad not many people know about Detroit tragedy and this record and as a whole about proper electronic music.

The release year for UR-003 reads as 1991 however this record didn't come out until late 92 (around same time as Red Planet 1) after Jeff had left UR.

Man, what a record!!! What you hear and FEEL in these tracks is incredible!!!! Reminds me of the red planet series (this is mike banks as the martian). If you love this record do yourself a favor and track down the martian with "lost transmission from earth". Incredible combination of techno, electro & acid. Spin final frontier in a set and you know heads will turn!

This is an essential record, if you are into fantastic electronic music!!!

Well, this is maybe the best thing in the UR catalouge, all three trax are timeless classics. If somebody want to show what "Electro/Techno" is about, future, rawness, a certain feeling, this is the one. Proved over years.
Each track has the right mixture of electro beats, synthesizer and sampling workout and on top of all, atmosphere.
Hardly can pick one as a favorite, I fall in love with each of them, years ago. Thank you UR.

Been shedding tears listening to this one in the record shop.
'Final frontier' is some kind of evidence that music-made-with-machines can cause deep and intimate feelings, beyond any rational ways of understanding...
I've heard few tracks up to now capable of such a powerful fusion of heavy dancing beats, nostalgic melodies, simplicity, darkness, complexity and brightness.
Could be the anthem of an ecstatic cybergoth party in a post nuclear Ibiza... could be !

Proof of Genius - if you still needed one - Mike's first attempts are always masterpieces, no matter the style, Techno, Garage or like here, Electro. With this strings, Mike defined the most important characteristic of Detroit Techno: the length of the melodical loops. The track is also close to the Red Planet spirit, like a soulful introduction to what Mike calls Trance.

'The Final Frontier' is probably my favourite UR track. Killer layered chords, excellent twangy 303, mean sub-bass, crisp drums. 100% vibes for Africa. It still sounds fresh and great more than 10 years on. If Mike Banks had beamed this track back in a time machine from 2041 I wouldn't be surprised.