Drexciya

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Drexciya was an influential project in the field of electronic music . It was the community pseudonym of the American musicians James Marcel Stinson (born September 14, 1969 , † September 3, 2002 ) and Gerald Donald from Detroit , Michigan .

History and style

Between 1992 and 2002 the duo released four albums and around a dozen maxis on the renowned labels Underground Resistance , Warp , Tresor and Clone .

As a techno music project, Drexciya resorted to the rhythm of electro , but combined it with harsh sounds borrowed from industrial . The myth that surrounded the group during its existence was formed on the one hand by the strict secrecy of the musicians' identity. On the other hand, all publications consistently linked motifs from science fiction with those from the liberation of slaves and the Atlantis myth .

According to de: Bug , Drexciya's "symbolic resistance to any form of external determination met with a great deal of theoretical and literary support, [...] as evidenced by the extensive Drexciya exegesis in Kodwo Eshun 's 'Heller als die Sonne' or Thomas Meinecke 's 'Hellblau' This close reading of all the cryptic messages from Drexicya's Aquatopia by Eshun and Meinecke fills the gap that gapes between the clarity of Drexciya's music and the conscious diffusion in self-staging. " Eshun described Drexciya's work as "the most ambitious sonic fiction in electronic music since Parliament 's 'Mothership Connection' cycle of 1975-79".

According to de: Bug, the album Harnessed the Storm from 2002 marked "a clear further development of the always very idiosyncratic Drexciyan Electro. [The pieces] are strikingly digital in sound and thus appear even sharper and more precise than the tracks on the previous album [ Neptune's Lair , 1999 ] ".

Stinson released the album Elektroworld with his solo project Elecktroids on Warp in 1995 .

The identity of the musicians only became known after the death of James Marcel Stinson: The full-time truck driver, who also published under the pseudonyms Shifted Phases , The Other People Place , Transllusion or Lab Rat XL , died on September 3, 2002 in Atlanta , Georgia suffered from heart failure at age 32.

Gerald Donald is still active under the pseudonyms Dopplereffekt , Japanese Telecom , The Cycle, Arpanet (named after the forerunner of the Internet, see Arpanet ), Rudolf Klorzeiger, Heinrich Müller and most recently Avina Vishnu.

Discography

Albums

  • The Quest (1997, Submerge)
  • Neptune's Lair (1999, safe )
  • Harnessed the Storm (2002, Tresor)
  • Grava 4 (2002, clone)
  • The Cosmic Memoirs of the Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthorpe (2002, EFA , NOC, Tresor)
  • Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller I-IV (2013, clone; retrospective of the out of print EPs and singles with bonus tracks)

EPs and singles

  • Deep Sea Dweller (1992, Shockwave Records)
  • Drexciya 2: Bubble Metropolis (1993, Underground Resistance )
  • Aquatic Invasion (1994, Underground Resistance)
  • Drexciya 3: Molecular Enhancement (1994, Rephlex Records , Submerge)
  • Drexciya 4: The Unknown Aquazone (1994, Submerge)
  • Drexciya 5: The Journey Home (1995, Warp Records )
  • The Return Of Drexciya (1996, Underground Resistance)
  • Uncharted (1998, Somewhere In Detroit)
  • Fusion Flats (1999, Tresor)
  • Hydro Doorways (2000, safe)
  • Digital Tsunami (2001, safe)
  • Drexciyan REST Principle (2002, Clone)
  • Gravity Waves (2002, Clone)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nice Rice Gaskins: Deep Sea Dwellers: Drexciya and the Sonic Third Space . In: Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures . tape 10 , no. 2 , October 10, 2016, ISSN  1834-6057 , doi : 10.21463 / shima.10.2.08 ( shimajournal.org [PDF; accessed August 18, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b Felix Denk: Drexciya . In: De: Bug Magazin . July 18, 2002 ( de-bug.de [accessed August 18, 2018]).

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