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Detroit, United States

Drexciya were a mysterious 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 , with occasional excursions into the and 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.

Although both members of Drexciya remained completely anonymous throughout their active recording career, James Stinson was identified posthumously in 2002.
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  • mushin_no_shin

    legends

    18 May 1:30pm Reply

  • jakobdorof

    Neptune's Lair is some primo SNES videogame soundtrack jam

    4 Apr 3:59pm Reply

  • 6:00

    "Lardossen Funk." So basic. So precise.

    5 Feb 11:59pm Reply

  • SixShooterSam

    shakepussycat's grammer is how you know he's real

    23 Jan 9:42pm Reply

  • Kosterlijk

    And it's amazing.

    17 Jan 2:03pm Reply

  • PaulSn

    Part III out now.

    3 Jan 6:50pm Reply

  • shakepussycat

    Better artists, with Undergroun Resistance, Carl Craig and a few happy. Yes, strange way of writing for a music so sad, desesparately 'so innovative'. Music for bodies and minds. With Drexciya, definitely, you can dance or sleep, Make love or walking in the streets. I do so and I'm Happy.......I have to go now!

    23 Dec 2012 Reply

  • dubt33

    number three is so dope

    26 Nov 2012 Reply

  • jcotteri

    So dope

    11 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Blaat81

    Drexciya-Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller III will be release on 3 december 2012. http://soundcloud.com/clone-nl/drexciya-journey-of-the-deep

    2 Nov 2012 Reply

  • boehj

    a lot of extremely deep music from this dude.

    13 Sep 2012 Reply

  • ProgClow

    james stinson will be remembered forever. his soul shall live within his music.

    10 Sep 2012 Reply

  • widzhit

    Ultravod - great words!

    6 Sep 2012 Reply

  • Ultravod

    10 years ago today, Drexciya's James Stinson died. I still remember logging on to SoulSeek and the electro room was buzzing with the news. It had only been comparatively recently that his real name was associated with the project. Around that time there were some update wars on the Drexciyan Discogs page that would make a Wikipedian flinch. Now at this current wave of "EDM" popularity crests and the term "electro" has been repurposed to reanimate the career of a legion of has-been house DJs, the importance of what James Stinson and Gerald Donald did in the 1990s under a host of aliases is more important than ever. You will encounter precious little electronic music as challenging and rewarding as that produced by James Stinson in his all too short career. It's not catchy and it's not necessarily easy to "get." If you listen closely, you will will hear the bleak landscape of Detroit, and the vivid imagination of those who live there and sought to escape to a world of their own making.

    3 Sep 2012 Reply

  • Scarper1

    Of course, you can like whatever you want... as long as you recognise who the daddy's are.

    28 Jun 2012 Reply

  • shinnygogo

    reminded me of Afrika Bambata

    27 Jun 2012 Reply

  • Scarper1

    Everyone who likes electronic music needs this in their life. I wish more people knew about them. Fuck Dub-step-wonk-future-bongle-whatever.... THIS IS THE REAL SHIT!! Long live Drexciya, & RIP J. Stinson.

    24 Jun 2012 Reply

  • Bertistof

    is there any schedule for the ( in lack of a better word ) rereleases?

    12 Jun 2012 Reply

  • boehj

    banging

    7 May 2012 Reply

  • futureaspects

    Oh, this is cool main pic. I like it.

    17 Apr 2012 Reply
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