DREXCIYA (+related projects, albums only)

durr i forgot to include Transllusion u_u

Elecktroids?

Neptunes Lair - underrated - takes a while to get your head around, but worth the effort.

NEPTUNE'S LAIR NEPTUNE'S LAIR NEPTUNE'S LAIR NEPTUNE'S LAIR ooh yeah very tough poll, hmm let's see... NEPTUNE'S LAIR NEPTUNE'S LAIR NEPTUNE'S LAIR NEPTUNE'S LAIR maybe Wireless Internet? Or Gesamtkuntwerk. NEPTUNE'S LAIR NEPTUNE'S LAIR NEPTUNE'S LAIR NEPTUNE'S LAIR

option paralysis...

(v v sorry abt "Gesamtkuntwerk")

Lifestyles Of The Laptop Cafe ... maybe ... dunno

yes, this needs Elecktroids. but Other People Place.

Neptune's Lair because it was the stuff on that that first got me into them. The Quest is probably just as good but in a different way (more clubby?). I've been listening to 'Black Sea' a bit lately. Their little 'fifths' stabs + string chords are v cool.

option paralysis...

dude that's Drum Club!

Lab Rat is good. Other People Place too. But they're not Drexciya enough to win this.

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This is tough one, but Neptune's Lair is wonderful, all 21 tracks of it!

Gesamkunstwerk is a close 2nd, though.

Bubble Metropolis off this: http://www.discogs.com/release/6061

http://epguides.com/DangerBay/cast.jpg

I always wished their song Danger Bay was in reference to Canada's best show.

It's v close between Gesamtkunstwerk and The Quest, but... imma have to go with Gesamt simply for the life-changing effects it had

If only The Journey Home were an album...

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Virtual Geisha, Cosmic Memoirs and Biometry deserved more votes, but, yeah.

The other people place??? Are you serious? God, it was so boring compared to the other top 4!

Oh... I would have voted for Arpanet (probably Quantum Transposition), but I didn't realize it was a Drexciya-related project.

I would have voted for the Other People Place if I'd seen this.

What else sounds like Other People Place? i.e. Drexciya-like but more relaxed, I guess.

Other People Place record is pretty much the best record ever made imo

To me, I relate OPP to Model 500's Be Brave;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4djpuoVg0Q

and maybe Blaze's Wishing You Were Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFr2eVvssWs

nothing I know that is v similar to OPP, it's really cool.

On the other hand The Other People Place is similar to Sharivari!

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150911.html

what does that have to do with drexciya?

a squid near a flying bat in grava 4 is drexciyan. got me?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m8n2XnJLplw/VGB9hRkQ1_I/AAAAAAAABjQ/TGBa1tCSm0c/s1600/R-739-1080826572.jpg

But yeah, this seems like it's applicable to all phallic squid iconography, as opposed to the Drex specifically.

wake me up when we reach lardossa

Just reading an RA rave review of the Warp Laptop Cafe re-issue inspired me to dig out some old Drexciya. Man, I don't think I've ever found a more perfect use of 4 minutes than Triangular Hydrogen Strain. I think Laptop Cafe is a beautiful album, but this poll gets it about right.

Of course Oxyplasmic Gyration Beam is alltime as well .. what an album Neptune's lair is.

Other People Place record is pretty much the best record ever made imo

― post, Sunday, January 8, 2012 4:40 AM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

calzino kinda otm though, nothing like neptune's lair, builds on all the single releases and takes them to new subspaces

anyway i spent my entire sick day yesterday listening to drexciya

is that Elecktroids reissue worth picking up?

lifestyles of the laptop café uncannily the exact kind of record i would want to make if i made dance music xp

I'd have probably gone Grava 4, if only for the mighty 'Cascading Celestial Giants'.

I'd never heard the Lifestyles of the Laptop Café album until today. It's quite good innit.

xxxp damn right the elecktroids reissue is worth picking up

ta, it's on my list!

also the transllusion album is nearly as good as lifestyles

i am waiting for the day harnessing the storm fully clicks with me but i think it's supposed to be kind of introverted and static

living the laptop cafe lifestyle so hard rn. literally but also i do love that album. cool flex where drexciya just make the best electro album kinda on a whim like nbd. i guess it’s easier on a technical lev than hectic robo techno, to program or wtv

uh why would you think that?

i don't know much of anything about drexciya and spin-off groups, other than a superficial knowledge, but i randomly heard transllusion recently and it was pretty mind-blowing

uh why would you think that?

― the late great, Wednesday, March 13, 2019 2:52 PM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bc it sounds less busy and complex. ‘aqua worm hole’ sounds harder to make than ‘its your love’. i can p much play the latter by ear and recognize most of the presets from the one summer ducking around w synth and drum machine, but i have no idea how to make many of the sounds on worm hole (not to mention other more bonkers drexciya songs i don’t rememb names of)

i take it from your incensed reaction that this was a controversial statement. seems obvious to me. maybe it’s really easy to program hectic drexciya style techno and i just don’t know the tricks

not incensed, jeez

u incensed bro

i remember let me be me coming on in the dancing one time when i was fully of eccy. very emotionally cathartic

calling out that bassline on "it's your love" bc, imo, it's one of the best ever

this album always struck me as maybe superficially simple but extremely well-written. even tho every track only has a few elements in the mix, every sound is v well-chosen and it all just locks in perfectly, like computer world or something. but i don't make techno so what do I know? I could be off on that.

easily my fave drexciya-related record too. I think I probably heard it first and found their records a little underwhelming in comparison but i'm over that now. but I've never really stopped going back to laptop cafe since it came out.

god lab rat xl is phenomenal

yeah, that's the most OPP-like drexciya thing for my money, well "lab rat 3" anyway

Forty-minute double aquapak The Unknown Aquazone should be considered an album.

The Journey Home is prob my Drexciya OPO (I'm a softie)

the thing about "funk release valve" is that it really does release the funk

oh wait actually maybe my opo is "funk release valve".

I'd have probably gone Grava 4, if only for the mighty 'Cascading Celestial Giants'.

― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, March 13, 2019 7:30 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow grava 4 is outstanding and this is otm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6q_w2mI2ks

this is probably my favorite off that one, which is probably my favorite project of his outside of drexciya proper

https://youtu.be/C4F1cF31864

“cascading celestial giants” is probably the best thing he did in the “seven storms” era

shifted phases is excellent

have you gotten to arpanet wireless internet, dopplereffekt calabi yau space, the japanese telecom releases, or the clarence 12" yet, brad? all v much worth hearing & they cover a lot of different ground.

also: Glass Domain - "Interlock"

Co-sign on Arpanet's Wirelesss Internet, and would add Dopplereffekt's 'Linear Accelerator' to the list as a crucial album. That one goes beyond space.

omg riches and wonders

i guess i can just listen to drexciya for the rest of my life

and would add Dopplereffekt's 'Linear Accelerator' to the list as a crucial album. That one goes beyond space.

I don't think I was ready for this one at the time (wanted more beats). it's high time to give it another go.

Oh I truly hope you do. The beats are in the second part of the album, but if all goes well you will be sucked into side A so completely, you won't be longing for beats any longer. 'Linear Accelerator' is a mirage, a dive deep into the sonic wormhole, a gift. It's a miracle of a record. I do not say this lightly.

we are all aware that the dopplereffekt guy and the drexciya guy are different guys right?

"linear accelerator" came out months after james stinson (drexciya guy) died. i always liked to think of it as a concept album, in which gerald donald (dopplereffekt guy) tries to use quantum mechanics to summon up the ghost of james stinson.

"We" are aware, yes.

sorry just making sure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

nah it's cool! :)

I thought Drexciya was Stinson and Donald together, not just Stinson by himself?

we are all aware that the dopplereffekt guy and the drexciya guy are different guys right?

you'll need to expand on this

xp to tuomas - my understanding is that drexciya became a solo stinson project around 1995

Okay, I really don't know that much about Drexciyan history except a couple of articles I've read online, and the Resident Advisor mini-documentary, and I've never seen any breakdown of who did what on the Drexciya albums... Is there any good source for further information?

There's really not much reliable information on who wrote what but it's believed that Stinson and Donald were Drexciya. It's rumoured that there were a couple of other guys in Elecktroids and I think The Other People Place was a Stinson solo thing

The Elecktroids EP that was just reissued isn't great by the way. I picked up the Elecktroworld album and it's good but I was a bit underwhelmed tbh, not one of their best for me

Is there any good source for further information?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, March 19, 2019 1:12 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, which is why i thought it was interesting that tlg was getting pedantic about it

This is really cool btw. 'The Book Of Drexciya, Volume One', a graphic novel about their history (and it raised nearly $19,000!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgG-QiChiA8

Oh and this is a great piece on their history.

LBI, that's exactly the mini-documentary I mentioned above, but it doesn't say anything about who made which records... And the Red Bull article you linked seems to confirm Drexciya was a duo effort right until Grava 4.

Sorry, oversaw that you mentioned it already.

In that article, this bit about the Shifted Phases pretty interesting:

Stinson’s death in September 2002 hardly stemmed the tide: Appearing posthumously were another Transllusion album (2002’s L.I.F.E. on Rephlex), Lab Rat XL’s Mice Or Cyborg in 2003 via Clone and Shifted Phases’ The Cosmic Memoirs of the Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthorpe, also released in 2002 via Tresor. At least, the Shifted Phases album is widely believed to have been by Stinson. According to Stoiber, however, Donald gave Stinson the completed album as a wedding present, “so it’s a Gerald record.”

If Shifted Phases is indeed Donald and not Stinson, then that would certainly mean Donald was contributing to Drexciya records post-1995, because the last track on the Shifted Phases album is the same tune as "Song of the Green Whale" on Harnessed the Storm.

"this bit about the Shifted Phases album is pretty interesting"

There was a great Wire piece by Kodwo Eshun that went deep into the mythos surrounding the various incarnations of Drexciya, playing heavily on Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic.

I threw out all my old Wires last week and can't check which edition. I felt I needed to confess.

the red bull piece mentions and links the piece: https://www.last.fm/pt/user/sannur/journal/2010/12/28/44l6br_fear_of_a_wet_%20planet_-_kodwo_eshun_on_drexc%EE%80%80!a

http://drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.com/

lotta old articles there if you go back

transllusion l.i.f.e. is maybe the most out-there stinson/drexciya-related release, it is incredible

i am waiting for the day harnessing the storm fully clicks with me

this happened btw, and i am no closer to figuring out what the best drexciya release is

ugh i love drexciya

hell yeah

today i would like to shout out “organic hydropoly spores”

https://www.galwayartscentre.ie/whats-on/the-otolith-group/
Exhibition by Otolith Group that ties in directly with Drexciya , influenced by the mythos etc. & had talks by Kodo Eshun and Deforrest Brown last Saturday. Followed a while later by a dj set by Brown.

Has had me investigating the music of the band. I think I may have read the Kodwo Eshun piece way way back since I've been picking up Wire since the mid 90s.
Tresor seem to be running low on their supply of the reissue if the bandcamp page is anything to go by. May not be but is down to the single digits there. Am I think right that the 2 album length sets include the e,p as bonus tracks or as in one each.
Been listening to individual tracks on Spotify but may not be the best way to immerse myself.

Dopplereffekt live and special guests.

https://www.bl.uk/events/late-at-the-library-drexciyan-realms

wow, would love to go to that
just got the rereleases of the NRSB-11 LP and 12", love the 12" especially

After splitting with his long term girlfriend, and in a moment of weakness, my best mate purchased a physical copy of a pornographic magazine named “Panty Girl” from the local newsagents. Amusingly, there was a review of Drexciya’s Neptune’s Lair in the small music section, which just seemed rather incongruous.

It was a very positive review though.

"A friend", I get you.