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Drexciya were a mysterious electro unit from Detroit, Michigan. The late James Stinson was the only officially identified member of Drexciya, but it was considered an open secret that he had a partner, Gerald Donald.

The majority of Drexciya’s releases were in the style of harsh, dancefloor oriented Electro, punctuated with elements of retro, 1980s detroit techno, with occasional excursions into the Ambient and Industrial genres.

Drexciya combined a faceless, underground, anti-mainstream media stance with mythological, sci-fi narratives, to help heighten the dramatic effect of their music. In this respect they were similar to artists within and close to the Detroit collective Underground Resistance.

Their name referred to a myth comparable to Plato’s myth of Atlantis, which the group revealed in the sleeve notes to their 1997 album “The Quest”. “Drexciya” was an underwater country populated by the unborn children of pregnant African women thrown off of slave ships that had adapted to breathe underwater in their mother’s wombs.

Reports of Drexciya’s disbanding in 1997 were contradicted two years later when a new Drexciya track appeared on the Underground Resistance compilation Interstellar Fugitives, followed by three more Drexciya albums. It appears that these were the solo work of Stinson. Both he and gerald donald continued to be prolific in their respective side projects.

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Orlandomoe wrote:
19 days ago

True Electro

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polymorphous71 wrote:
last month

Great but, at times, unintentionally funny

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doornappel wrote:
last month

Legendary techno, all my respect.

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kuromaku15 wrote:
September 2009

my brother's acid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TfphYhNB8M&NR=1

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Theeboon wrote:
August 2009

So about this whole human aquatic evolution theme... check this funny and inspirational talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/elaine_morgan_says_we_evolved_from_aquatic_apes.html

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l0v3parade wrote:
August 2009

lets vote a new pic

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daozor wrote:
July 2009

♥

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SPACEFACTORYREC wrote:
June 2009

hey! All the hot tunes from Space Factory here! http://world.idolweb.fr/space-factory/releases.html Thank u for your support!

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dougbummy wrote:
June 2009

HARNESSING THE STORM

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Theeboon wrote:
June 2009

Grava 4, the only album by them I can't seem to get my hands on (except by downloading it of course)... and it's one of their best!

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kexa wrote:
June 2009

Кто такую дурацкую биографию написал на русском?! "Выпустили всего пять синглов"?! неизвестны имена участников группы?! явно знаток писал...

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mrgypsum wrote:
June 2009

grava 4 amazes me everytime i listen to it.

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solixdj wrote:
March 2009

LETS GO TECHNO,HELLO I,M A NEW PLAYER IN LAST FM AND I NEED KNOW HOW UPLOAD A MIX,SOME CAN HELP ME

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UsPeaches wrote:
March 2009

proud Detroiter!

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Darren22 wrote:
March 2009

Don't know a lot about them, or that much about electro in general, but Drexciya are amazing!

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djjustinjohnson wrote:
March 2009

Ruling. 'Nuff said.

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tomscod27 wrote:
March 2009

a legend. RIP. your tunes will live on!

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NikolaGo wrote:
February 2009

You will NEVER die.

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Notabene wrote:
February 2009

"Wow. Not bad." what? - its mythic! Organic hydropoly spores, You don't know, Lost vessel, Andrean sand dunes - the list goes on and on

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yamemm wrote:
February 2009

http://drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.com/2005/11/bubble-metropolis.html “This is Drexciyan Cruiser Control, bubble 1, to Lardossen cruiser 8-203X , please decrease your speed to 1.788.4 kilobahn, thank you, Lardossen cruiser 8-203X please use extra caution as you pass the aqua construction site on the side of the aquabahn , I repeat, proceed with caution.”

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