The Hardcore Overdogs: Looking back at the 90s: Underground Futuristic Organisation

"Looking back at the 90s" is a new series of features that we're doing.
Revisiting important, outstanding and possibly underrated Hardcore Techno related labels, artists and projects from the 90s era.
We're using information from the Hardcore Primer ( https://hardcoretechnoprimer.blogspot.com/ ) and our other publications, and we will provide listening examples for you as well.

These features will be more like short introductions / overviews, less like "in-depth reports". To give you a quick taste of the specific project and let you dive right in.
If you want to learn more and "dig deeper" - then the resources are out there!

There are plenty of underrated labels from the 90s, but rarely is a label so deserving of that title as U.F.O., aka Underground Futuristic Organisation, out of London.

Almost forgotten now, it was host to some of the best and most interesting releases of the 90s. Two excellent EPs by the one and only Lasse Steen under different monikers (as usual). A rare apperance of Vdd Energise who did only a few releases in the 90s - brilliant as usual.
Two brutal releases by Lee Humphreys himself (one of these together with Ken Dutrieue), who seemingly was also behind the label as a whole. A curious release by Max de Grote. But last but not least - the Passages EP by Somatic Responses, which shook the underground music world when it was released, ended up in everyone's fanzine top 10 chart features, and even made it onto German mainstream TV (featured in a small segment about Christoph de Babalon's DJ activities).
These releases really left a mark on the Hardcore and other scenes.
It is be about time to look back on this label again. Acid, Hardcore, Techno, darkness, in various BPMs, it's all here.

Listening examples:

1. Somatic Responses - Sickwave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsE6dhZ0vmo