Throughout a recording career spanning almost two decades, DJ Stingray aka. Sherard Ingram a.k.a. Urban Tribe has consistently avoided the mainstream to create a musical world of his own. Responsible for the early techno classic >Covert Action< on Retroactive (reissued on Planet E), Ingram was joined by Carl Craig, Anthony Shakir and Kenny Dixon jr. (Moodymann) for Urban Tribe s debut album >The collapse of modern culture< on Mo Wax and their latest project >Program 1-12< released on Kenny Dixon Jrs label Mahogani Music and The recent >Loyal Opposition< releases on Planet E. Touring as Drexciya s official assault DJ, Stingray collaborated with James Stinson for the >Other People Place ft. Mystic Tribe a.i.< project on Clone in 2002. His two recent albums (>Authorized Clinical Trials< and >Acceptable Side Effects<) and singles for Rephlex have remained true to their Drexciyan descent, not through imitation but through remorseless innovation in electro aesthetics.