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Drexciya Appreciation Thread

I'm listening to the podcast. Never heard of him/them before. I do like it though. I generally don't like techno - I think it's rhythmically evil. (I like the idea of liking techno, though.). This is a cut above anything else I've heard.
 
That Wire article is brilliant by the way (but written in Wire language !)...well worth reading to get into the mystery around them, and their politics and philosophy...from the article::

""" The sleevenotes to The Quest CD are an origin story, a prequel that links genetic mutation to recent breakthroughs in liquid oxygen technology and retroacts both back to the Slave Trade. "During the greatest Holocaust the world has ever known, pregnant America-bound African slaves were thrown overboard by the thousands during labour for being sick and disruptive cargo. Is it possible that they could have given birth at sea to babies that never needed air? Are Drexciyans water-breathing aquatically mutated descendents of those unfortunate victims of human greed? Recent experiements have shown a premature human infant saved from certain death by breathing liquid oxyden through its underdeveloped lungs.

By inventing another outcome for the Middle Passage, this sonic fiction opens a bifurcation in time which alters the present by feeding back through its audience - you, the landlocked mutant descendent of the Slave Trade. The sustained cruelty of Drexciya's project is not so much justified as it is distributed and intensified. If the dominant strain in Afrodiasporic pop culture stresses the human, the soul, then the post-soul, post-human tendency Drexciya belong to rejects the human species by indentifying with the alien.

From Sun Ra's instruction to the peoples of Earth to Parliament's greetings to the citizens of the universe, from The Martian's astro disco Red Planet series to Dr Octagon's address to Earth people, becoming alien allows an extraterrestrial perspective. The ET discontinuum generates a new emotional spectrum towards the human: attraction, indifference, hostility, medical curiosity.

Drexciya bring this extraterritorial discontinuum down to earth and under the water. Instead of ground reality, their sonic fiction sinks through the streets with the invisible force of an intensified magnetron. It derealises the solid facts that Hardcore music insists upon, deforming reality through a systematic confusion of technology with rumour, information with mystery.

Drexciya are esoterrorists. "Mommy, what's an esoterrorist?" Something, or someone who terrorises through esoteric myth systems. Infiltrating the world, the esoterrorist plants logic bombs and then vanishes, detonating conceptual explosions, multiplying perceptual holes through which the entire universe drains out. So the sleevenotes report "sightings of Gillmen and Swamp Monsters in the Coastal Swamps of the South Eastern United States" that make the Slave Trade theory startlingly feasible. Did they migrate from the Gulf of Mexico to the Mississipi River Basin to the Great Lakes of Michigan? Have they been spared by God to teach us or terrorise us?" """
 
Yep, love 'em. ska's already posted my fav, but here's some others I really like:

Japanese Telecom - Nipponse Robots


The Other People Place - Let Me Be Me


Drexciya - Jazzy Fluids


Drexciya - Andean Sand Dunes
 
Oh and as for them sounding like no one else...these are the only things I've ever found which sound similar. And by similar, I mean they can only be tributes to Drexciya:

Dynarec (pretty much every thing I've heard of theirs sounds Drexciyan)


DMX Krew (only done a few releases which sounds Drexciyan that I can see...defo not just a 'tribute' act)
 
this is proving to be perfect visuals to the drexciya mix...give it a try if you dont believe me :D
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Thanks for this thread OU - its made my day...and i predict week...planning to live it with Drexciya on a 5hr loop!

RIP James Stinton
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The first & last interview with James Stinson...
...in retrospect it is very sad listening!
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^^^i think recorded just before he died
 
Anyone know about this guy?
DREXCIYAN DJ STINGRAY
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Sherard Ingram unleashes his debut recorded material under the Drexciyan DJ Stingray moniker, making his super-developed strand of hyper-speed aquatic electro available to public consumption for the very first time. This is, of course, impeccably produced material, the percussive programming here underpinned by that signature padded bassline that envelops the tracks with immense warmth despite their frenetic pace.

Drexciyan signatures are also littered around the tracks, discordant 8-bit malfunctions and an eerie science fiction obsession leaving archetypal markers for those of you always on the lookout for these subtle connections to days gone by. "Silicon Romance" is by far the best thing here, not a million miles removed from the more recent Urban Tribe material, and full of those stylistic signatures that have gained Ingram such a dedicated following over the last decade. Excellent stuff.
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^^^thats from 2008
http://www.discogs.com/artist/DJ Stingray (2)

Cant find a link to a mix of his...i flicked through a few tracks on YT - ts good, but its not Drexciya.... (that Silicon Romance tune is spot on though)
 
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