Throughout his career, Rez Mesinai has been releasing albums of modern classical music and experimental improvisation under his own name and dancefloor-friendly beats as Badawi. UNIT OF RESISTANCE is the first album Mesinai has ever released under both names, and indeed, it combines elements of both styles into something entirely new. Recorded as a conscious act of political protest at a studio near Madison Square Garden during September 2004, the same place and time that the Republican Party was holding its convention, UNIT OF RESISTANCE is the end result of over 10 hours' worth of jams recorded with regular Mesinai collaborators, remixed, and manipulated into a blend of jazz, funk, and electro experimentation with found-sound samples from media coverage of the GOP convention.
