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Classic or Dud? What's he like? New one worth buying etc etc... Info & opinions please...

― powertonevolume, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

I thought Drexciya was a two-man outfit? Either way they/he seem intent on preserving an air of mystique, seldom giving interviews etc. 'The Quest' is a fabulous exploration of Detroit electro-funk. Highly recommended. 'Harnessed the Storm' I haven't heard yet, but I'm told last year's 'Digital Tsunami' was a gem.

Expect Omar to elaborate any moment, if he can pull himself away from the new Dutch 'De Subjectivisten' group.

― stevo, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

The drexciyan's are a mysterious lot. The new one is decent, but not their best work to date. The second and last track stand out, but the others are not particularly noteworthy.

The Quest is probably their most essential release. Neptune's Layer and Harnessed the Storm are good, but not essential. I would recommend picking up last years Other People's Place album on Warp. It is half of Drexciya, and besides Dopplereffkt, the best thing to come out of that camp.

I still need to hear the Transllusion record.

― mt, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

I reckon a small number of Drexciyans would be able to subdue the mighty Aquatarkus with little trouble.

― Andy K, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

oh pooh: drexciyans can breathe underwater but AQUATARKUS CAN BREATHE FIRE ON LAND!!!

― mark s, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

Drexciya? Isn't that the name of that famous shemale pornstar? I didn't know (s)he made records. But the "Drexciyan race" references would explain all 'hir' extra...appendages.

― Lord Custos, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

The Quest is definatly the best release, I think half of drexiya are behind japanese telecom on international deejay gigolos..

― jk, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

haha, just had a quick Google to look for the story of the Drexciyians, and stumble across a Mark S quote on the first page i look at (here). my question was the story invented by the band or does it predate them?

― michael, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

"I think half of drexiya are behind japanese telecom on international deejay gigolos.. "

I thought Japanese Telecom is Dopplereffekt.?. Drexciya's air of mystery is not exclusive to them. It seems 1/3 of the Detroit Electro scene maintains secret identities. Even worse, when I tried to license a Dopplereffekt song for a compilation, he wanted $5000 for the use of one song (as opposed to $500 of the other 13 artists). I tried to get Drexciya tracks but they were very poor about responding to messages. This all just shows how Detroit's Techno/Electro scene is self supported and love to put off anyone not in the loop as the other artists and labels I licensed stuff from were very high profile and cooperative (Rephlex, Intuit-Solar, Joey Boy, etc.)

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

three years pass...

the journey home! so great! black sea is on gabbacc right now, play it back to back with journey to the martian polar cap, such greatness

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:25 (twelve years ago) Permalink

l, since charltonlido revivied this, I guess this is a good a place as any to post this:

http://remixmag.com/mag/remix_james_stinson/

September 3, 2002, came and went like any other day — until that evening, actually, when a message, startling to most, raced through the electronic-music world with lightning speed. James Marcel Stinson, the driving force behind the enigmatic Drexciya outfit, was dead.

etc.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:54 (twelve years ago) Permalink

yes, very sad news, there is a thread for it, somewhere in here

i love the other people place record, its so...lakeside drive. perfect

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:03 (twelve years ago) Permalink

'C to the power of X+C to the power of X=MM=unknown' has become one of my favourite tracks ever in a very short space of time.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:22 (twelve years ago) Permalink

the transllusion album is a bit underrated

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:42 (twelve years ago) Permalink

nine months pass...

Reviving!

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Sunday, 12 March 2006 15:55 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Actually, what i was really interested in is links to more of the drexciyan mythology. Google seems to go round in circles quoting Kodwo Eshun. Are the sleevenotes to the quest, for example, available anywhere?

Also, C/D? S/D? etc.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Sunday, 12 March 2006 15:58 (eleven years ago) Permalink

for those sleevenotes and more stuff

(very classic btw)

― Omar (Omar), Sunday, 12 March 2006 16:49 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Aha! Thanks. I'll do some reading (and listening) then post back.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:10 (eleven years ago) Permalink

that drexciya blog rules! i was just listening to 'neptune's lair' again recently, would love to hear his take on it.

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:48 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Ever since the blues and early jazz, black music has been stolen and exploited. It pisses me off that we let it happen. It s a political thing; everybody talks about it under their breath, but they don t come out and say anything about it. As far as I m concerned, Richie Hawtin, Moby, and all the rest of em can do what they want, but don t step into my house if you don t respect it. Don t even call what you do techno ! I don't want to hear anybody saying Richie started any damned thing, cos he ain t started shit. All he did was step in with his money and his Caucasian persuasion and put himself on the market, and now he s got all these kids riding his jock. We never had rich backgrounds; we were working jobs for $4.25 an hour. Our mamas never gave us money to buy keyboards and put records out. We work for our stuff. That s why there s a big difference in the music. Why do Richie and his Plus 8 family come down here and throw parties in downtown Detroit? He brings in all these kids from the suburbs and from Canada, and that shows a lack of respect. I’ve been to every one of those parties and I’ve never heard an Underground Resistance record, a Cybotron record, a Model 500 record or an Eddie Fowlkes record. It s a total lack of respect, and it s got to stop.

haw

― o -- (eman), Monday, 13 March 2006 04:13 (eleven years ago) Permalink

is that blog by an ILXOR? i wanna get in on THAT blog!

sorry strong, geeta, andy - i am thinking of ur blogs too, all the time =(

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:15 (eleven years ago) Permalink

I don't want to hear anybody saying Richie started any damned thing...etc

I loath that quote so much. A fine example of a Calimero (as we say around these parts).

(weak spot of course as Eshun stated: Dusseldorf was the Mississippi-delta of techno. :)

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:20 (eleven years ago) Permalink

Cultural separatism aside, this blog so needed to happen.

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:09 (eleven years ago) Permalink

one year passes...

I'm wondering if anybody has any suggestions for Techno/Electro similar to Drexciya's awesome EP The Journey Home.

― Michael Servetus, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 00:30 (ten years ago) Permalink

two months pass...

revive.

more goodies from the drexciya research lab.

http://www.drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.com/

― Display Name, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:23 (nine years ago) Permalink

"I'm wondering if anybody has any suggestions for Techno/Electro similar to Drexciya's awesome EP The Journey Home.

-- Michael Servetus"

everything else Drexciya and their side projects released.

― pipecock, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 01:47 (nine years ago) Permalink

who is the drexciyan deepchord???

― elan, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 01:49 (nine years ago) Permalink

they would be called bubblesnare

― elan, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 01:50 (nine years ago) Permalink

or cumbubblesnare, rather

― elan, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 01:50 (nine years ago) Permalink

"who is the drexciyan deepchord???

-- elan"

haha, that would be like 50% of electro made today ;)

― pipecock, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 14:41 (nine years ago) Permalink

"who is the drexciyan deepchord???"

redshape?

― tricky, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 15:59 (nine years ago) Permalink

the netherlands.

― Display Name, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:02 (nine years ago) Permalink

the whole country?? tracklist pls.

― tricky, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:24 (nine years ago) Permalink

a1. The Hague
b1. Rotterdam

― Display Name, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:58 (nine years ago) Permalink

three years pass...

new heinrich muller mix on RA

v. sci-fi, I'm 15 minutes in and enjoying it

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 13:45 (six years ago) Permalink

five months pass...

So, is there actually any way to acquire "The Quest" without either paying crazy money for it or DLing it illegally? Are there any chances of it being reissued in the future?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:33 (six years ago) Permalink

Is The Quest that long out of print? I didn't realize that... I've had my copy for a long time, I suppose. Anyhow, painfully, amazingly classic stuff. I love the side-projects as well. I named my first cat Drexciya.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:23 (six years ago) Permalink

The cheapest used (cd) copy of it I could find on sale on the net is over 70 euros, so yeah, it's definitely in need of a reissue.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:34 (six years ago) Permalink

There's a copy on ebay which isn't that mad money at the moment. I named my cat heinrich mueller.

― historyyy (prettylikealaindelon), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:39 (six years ago) Permalink

There is? Could you maybe provide a link to the EBay page, I can't find it...

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:45 (six years ago) Permalink

i just realised that they seem to be sending to the uk only :/ - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Drexciya-Quest-double-CD-Rare-Detroit-Techno-/110729525835

― historyyy (prettylikealaindelon), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:59 (six years ago) Permalink

Oh dear, that's that then...

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:01 (six years ago) Permalink

two weeks pass...

Hello.

http://www.factmag.com/2011/09/01/drexciyas-early-releases-to-be-reissued/

“We will re-issue the early Drexciya catalogue on Clone. We are currently busy restoring the original master tapes, and hopefully we have the first one ready before the end of the year! Of course we will keep you updated on the process.”

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 September 2011 16:39 (six years ago) Permalink

Oh, this is great news!

― Tuomas, Saturday, 3 September 2011 11:23 (six years ago) Permalink

four months pass...

this is on spotify

― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:38 (five years ago) Permalink

five months pass...

don't think this is

http://www.discogs.com/Clarence-Hyperspace-Sound-Lab/release/249283

― Crackle Box, Thursday, 14 June 2012 14:35 (five years ago) Permalink

three years pass...

l o v e l y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMbK631xevU

― The Reverend, Sunday, 22 November 2015 23:15 (one year ago) Permalink

The Transllusion album is so good

― brimstead, Monday, 23 November 2015 00:26 (one year ago) Permalink

one year passes...

The Jack Peoples release is lovely. Much more similar to The Other People Place than Drexciya

― paolo, Thursday, 6 July 2017 17:48 (three months ago) Permalink

one month passes...

i bought an aqua colored water pipe

i have decided to call it dr blowfin's aquabong

― the late great, Monday, 7 August 2017 19:23 (two months ago) Permalink

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