yes, this needs Elecktroids. but Other People Place.
― resolved, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Neptune's Lair because it was the stuff on that that first got me into them. The Quest is probably just as good but in a different way (more clubby?). I've been listening to 'Black Sea' a bit lately. Their little 'fifths' stabs + string chords are v cool.
― blueski, Friday, 13 July 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
option paralysis...
dude that's Drum Club!
― blueski, Friday, 13 July 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Lab Rat is good. Other People Place too. But they're not Drexciya enough to win this.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
This is tough one, but Neptune's Lair is wonderful, all 21 tracks of it!
Gesamkunstwerk is a close 2nd, though.
― Michael Servetus, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Bubble Metropolis off this: http://www.discogs.com/release/6061
― sous les paves, Thursday, 19 July 2007 04:07 (sixteen years ago) link
http://epguides.com/DangerBay/cast.jpg
I always wished their song Danger Bay was in reference to Canada's best show.
― Michael Servetus, Thursday, 19 July 2007 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
It's v close between Gesamtkunstwerk and The Quest, but... imma have to go with Gesamt simply for the life-changing effects it had
― Stevie D, Thursday, 19 July 2007 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
If only The Journey Home were an album...
― Bill in Chicago, Thursday, 19 July 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Virtual Geisha, Cosmic Memoirs and Biometry deserved more votes, but, yeah.
― ☪, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The other people place??? Are you serious? God, it was so boring compared to the other top 4!
― Stevie D, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh... I would have voted for Arpanet (probably Quantum Transposition), but I didn't realize it was a Drexciya-related project.
― Paul in Santa Cruz, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I would have voted for the Other People Place if I'd seen this.
― jim, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
What else sounds like Other People Place? i.e. Drexciya-like but more relaxed, I guess.
― toby, Sunday, 8 January 2012 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
Other People Place record is pretty much the best record ever made imo
― post, Sunday, 8 January 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
To me, I relate OPP to Model 500's Be Brave;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4djpuoVg0Q
― mmmm, Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
and maybe Blaze's Wishing You Were Herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFr2eVvssWs
― mmmm, Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
nothing I know that is v similar to OPP, it's really cool.
― mmmm, Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
On the other hand The Other People Place is similar to Sharivari!
― mmmm, Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150911.html
― willem, Friday, 11 September 2015 11:23 (eight years ago) link
what does that have to do with drexciya?
― hello, it me (clouds), Friday, 11 September 2015 23:52 (eight years ago) link
a squid near a flying bat in grava 4 is drexciyan. got me?
― linee, Saturday, 12 September 2015 06:00 (eight years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m8n2XnJLplw/VGB9hRkQ1_I/AAAAAAAABjQ/TGBa1tCSm0c/s1600/R-739-1080826572.jpg
But yeah, this seems like it's applicable to all phallic squid iconography, as opposed to the Drex specifically.
― EDB, Saturday, 12 September 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
wake me up when we reach lardossa
― hello, it me (clouds), Saturday, 12 September 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
Just reading an RA rave review of the Warp Laptop Cafe re-issue inspired me to dig out some old Drexciya. Man, I don't think I've ever found a more perfect use of 4 minutes than Triangular Hydrogen Strain. I think Laptop Cafe is a beautiful album, but this poll gets it about right.
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
Of course Oxyplasmic Gyration Beam is alltime as well .. what an album Neptune's lair is.
― calzino, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
― post, Sunday, January 8, 2012 4:40 AM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
calzino kinda otm though, nothing like neptune's lair, builds on all the single releases and takes them to new subspaces
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:01 (five years ago) link
anyway i spent my entire sick day yesterday listening to drexciya
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link
is that Elecktroids reissue worth picking up?
― Neil S, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link
lifestyles of the laptop café uncannily the exact kind of record i would want to make if i made dance music xp
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
I'd have probably gone Grava 4, if only for the mighty 'Cascading Celestial Giants'.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
I'd never heard the Lifestyles of the Laptop Café album until today. It's quite good innit.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link
xxxp damn right the elecktroids reissue is worth picking up
― the late great, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
ta, it's on my list!
― Neil S, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
also the transllusion album is nearly as good as lifestyles
i am waiting for the day harnessing the storm fully clicks with me but i think it's supposed to be kind of introverted and static
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
living the laptop cafe lifestyle so hard rn. literally but also i do love that album. cool flex where drexciya just make the best electro album kinda on a whim like nbd. i guess it’s easier on a technical lev than hectic robo techno, to program or wtv
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
uh why would you think that?
― the late great, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
i don't know much of anything about drexciya and spin-off groups, other than a superficial knowledge, but i randomly heard transllusion recently and it was pretty mind-blowing
― na (NA), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
― the late great, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 2:52 PM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bc it sounds less busy and complex. ‘aqua worm hole’ sounds harder to make than ‘its your love’. i can p much play the latter by ear and recognize most of the presets from the one summer ducking around w synth and drum machine, but i have no idea how to make many of the sounds on worm hole (not to mention other more bonkers drexciya songs i don’t rememb names of)
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
i take it from your incensed reaction that this was a controversial statement. seems obvious to me. maybe it’s really easy to program hectic drexciya style techno and i just don’t know the tricks
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
not incensed, jeez
― the late great, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
u incensed bro
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
i remember let me be me coming on in the dancing one time when i was fully of eccy. very emotionally cathartic
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
calling out that bassline on "it's your love" bc, imo, it's one of the best ever
this album always struck me as maybe superficially simple but extremely well-written. even tho every track only has a few elements in the mix, every sound is v well-chosen and it all just locks in perfectly, like computer world or something. but i don't make techno so what do I know? I could be off on that.
easily my fave drexciya-related record too. I think I probably heard it first and found their records a little underwhelming in comparison but i'm over that now. but I've never really stopped going back to laptop cafe since it came out.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
god lab rat xl is phenomenal
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 15 March 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
yeah, that's the most OPP-like drexciya thing for my money, well "lab rat 3" anyway
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 15 March 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
Forty-minute double aquapak The Unknown Aquazone should be considered an album.
― Andy K, Friday, 15 March 2019 15:03 (five years ago) link
The Journey Home is prob my Drexciya OPO (I'm a softie)
― brimstead, Friday, 15 March 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
the thing about "funk release valve" is that it really does release the funk
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 15 March 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
oh wait actually maybe my opo is "funk release valve".
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 March 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, March 13, 2019 7:30 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wow grava 4 is outstanding and this is otm
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 March 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6q_w2mI2ks
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 17 March 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
this is probably my favorite off that one, which is probably my favorite project of his outside of drexciya proper
https://youtu.be/C4F1cF31864
― the late great, Sunday, 17 March 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
“cascading celestial giants” is probably the best thing he did in the “seven storms” era
― the late great, Sunday, 17 March 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
shifted phases is excellent
have you gotten to arpanet wireless internet, dopplereffekt calabi yau space, the japanese telecom releases, or the clarence 12" yet, brad? all v much worth hearing & they cover a lot of different ground.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 17 March 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
also: Glass Domain - "Interlock"
― brimstead, Sunday, 17 March 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
Co-sign on Arpanet's Wirelesss Internet, and would add Dopplereffekt's 'Linear Accelerator' to the list as a crucial album. That one goes beyond space.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 17 March 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
omg riches and wonders
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 17 March 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
i guess i can just listen to drexciya for the rest of my life
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 17 March 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
and would add Dopplereffekt's 'Linear Accelerator' to the list as a crucial album. That one goes beyond space.
I don't think I was ready for this one at the time (wanted more beats). it's high time to give it another go.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 18 March 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
Oh I truly hope you do. The beats are in the second part of the album, but if all goes well you will be sucked into side A so completely, you won't be longing for beats any longer. 'Linear Accelerator' is a mirage, a dive deep into the sonic wormhole, a gift. It's a miracle of a record. I do not say this lightly.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 March 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
we are all aware that the dopplereffekt guy and the drexciya guy are different guys right?
"linear accelerator" came out months after james stinson (drexciya guy) died. i always liked to think of it as a concept album, in which gerald donald (dopplereffekt guy) tries to use quantum mechanics to summon up the ghost of james stinson.
― the late great, Monday, 18 March 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
"We" are aware, yes.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 March 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
sorry just making sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― the late great, Monday, 18 March 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
nah it's cool! :)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 March 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
I thought Drexciya was Stinson and Donald together, not just Stinson by himself?
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 March 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
you'll need to expand on this
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 18 March 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
xp to tuomas - my understanding is that drexciya became a solo stinson project around 1995
― the late great, Monday, 18 March 2019 23:57 (five years ago) link
Okay, I really don't know that much about Drexciyan history except a couple of articles I've read online, and the Resident Advisor mini-documentary, and I've never seen any breakdown of who did what on the Drexciya albums... Is there any good source for further information?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 08:12 (five years ago) link
There's really not much reliable information on who wrote what but it's believed that Stinson and Donald were Drexciya. It's rumoured that there were a couple of other guys in Elecktroids and I think The Other People Place was a Stinson solo thing
― paolo, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 09:19 (five years ago) link
The Elecktroids EP that was just reissued isn't great by the way. I picked up the Elecktroworld album and it's good but I was a bit underwhelmed tbh, not one of their best for me
― paolo, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 09:21 (five years ago) link
Is there any good source for further information?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, March 19, 2019 1:12 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no, which is why i thought it was interesting that tlg was getting pedantic about it
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 09:54 (five years ago) link
This is really cool btw. 'The Book Of Drexciya, Volume One', a graphic novel about their history (and it raised nearly $19,000!)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 09:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgG-QiChiA8
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 10:01 (five years ago) link
Oh and this is a great piece on their history.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 10:03 (five years ago) link
LBI, that's exactly the mini-documentary I mentioned above, but it doesn't say anything about who made which records... And the Red Bull article you linked seems to confirm Drexciya was a duo effort right until Grava 4.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
Sorry, oversaw that you mentioned it already.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 12:25 (five years ago) link
In that article, this bit about the Shifted Phases pretty interesting:
Stinson’s death in September 2002 hardly stemmed the tide: Appearing posthumously were another Transllusion album (2002’s L.I.F.E. on Rephlex), Lab Rat XL’s Mice Or Cyborg in 2003 via Clone and Shifted Phases’ The Cosmic Memoirs of the Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthorpe, also released in 2002 via Tresor. At least, the Shifted Phases album is widely believed to have been by Stinson. According to Stoiber, however, Donald gave Stinson the completed album as a wedding present, “so it’s a Gerald record.”
If Shifted Phases is indeed Donald and not Stinson, then that would certainly mean Donald was contributing to Drexciya records post-1995, because the last track on the Shifted Phases album is the same tune as "Song of the Green Whale" on Harnessed the Storm.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
"this bit about the Shifted Phases album is pretty interesting"
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 12:32 (five years ago) link
There was a great Wire piece by Kodwo Eshun that went deep into the mythos surrounding the various incarnations of Drexciya, playing heavily on Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic.
I threw out all my old Wires last week and can't check which edition. I felt I needed to confess.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
the red bull piece mentions and links the piece: https://www.last.fm/pt/user/sannur/journal/2010/12/28/44l6br_fear_of_a_wet_%20planet_-_kodwo_eshun_on_drexc%EE%80%80!a
― willem, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
http://drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.com/
― brimstead, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
lotta old articles there if you go back
transllusion l.i.f.e. is maybe the most out-there stinson/drexciya-related release, it is incredible
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 July 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
i am waiting for the day harnessing the storm fully clicks with me
this happened btw, and i am no closer to figuring out what the best drexciya release is
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 July 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link
ugh i love drexciya
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
hell yeahtoday i would like to shout out “organic hydropoly spores”
― brimstead, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 03:53 (three years ago) link
https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/whats-on/the-otolith-group/Exhibition by Otolith Group that ties in directly with Drexciya , influenced by the mythos etc. & had talks by Kodo Eshun and Deforrest Brown last Saturday. Followed a while later by a dj set by Brown.
Has had me investigating the music of the band. I think I may have read the Kodwo Eshun piece way way back since I've been picking up Wire since the mid 90s.Tresor seem to be running low on their supply of the reissue if the bandcamp page is anything to go by. May not be but is down to the single digits there. Am I think right that the 2 album length sets include the e,p as bonus tracks or as in one each.Been listening to individual tracks on Spotify but may not be the best way to immerse myself.
― Stevo, Monday, 15 May 2023 12:48 (one year ago) link
Dopplereffekt live and special guests.
https://www.bl.uk/events/late-at-the-library-drexciyan-realms
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 23 October 2023 11:03 (seven months ago) link
wow, would love to go to thatjust got the rereleases of the NRSB-11 LP and 12", love the 12" especially
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 23 October 2023 11:09 (seven months ago) link
After splitting with his long term girlfriend, and in a moment of weakness, my best mate purchased a physical copy of a pornographic magazine named “Panty Girl” from the local newsagents. Amusingly, there was a review of Drexciya’s Neptune’s Lair in the small music section, which just seemed rather incongruous.
It was a very positive review though.
― Iain Macdonald, Monday, 23 October 2023 12:23 (seven months ago) link
"A friend", I get you.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 23 October 2023 12:41 (seven months ago) link