Years active 1992–2002 | Genres Techno Record label Underground Resistance | |
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Past members James StinsonGerald Donald Associated acts Transllusion, Gerald Donald Albums Neptune's Lair, Deep Sea Dweller, Harnessed the Storm, Journey of the Deep Sea Dwel, Grava 4 Profiles | ||
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Drexciya was an American electronic music duo from Detroit, Michigan, consisting of James Stinson (1969 - 2002) and Gerald Donald.
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History
The majority of Drexciya's releases were in the style of dance-floor-oriented Electro, punctuated with elements of retro, 1980s Detroit Techno, with occasional excursions into the Ambient and Industrial genres. Tracks were mostly centered around the TR-808 drum machine.
Drexciya, which eschewed media attention and its attendant focus on personality, developed an afrofuturist myth. The group revealed in the sleeve notes to their 1997 album The Quest that "Drexciya" was an underwater country populated by the unborn children of pregnant African women who were thrown off of slave ships; the babies had adapted to breathe underwater in their mothers' wombs. The myth was built partly on Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), according to Kodwo Eshun.
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.
Albums
EPs and singles
Compilations
Songs
Wave JumperAquatic Invasion · 1994
Digital TsunamiHarnessed the Storm · 2002
Andreaen Sand DunesNeptune's Lair · 1999