1983 A Merman is more about the mythology tho, especially in dissensus terms where most people aren't truly into guitars
idk if the Drexciya guys ever listened to it as children or teenagers, or if they did what they thought
and unlike Drexciya - tho, not unlike P-Funk - there's a healthy does of white hippiedom in there, Atlantis way down beneath the ocean where I wanna be
but Jimi flips it ofc - a black man turns on his back on a dying earth (speaking of apocalyptic fantasies) and takes The Journey Home to Neptune's Lair etc
not merely escapism but active flight from a dystopia. which Drexciya then brings all the way back around to the active creation of a different kind of utopia.
why I have always found Drexciya so fascinating, even all the faceless techno mystery (which was before my time anyway) and incredible quality of the music aside
to refashion the impossible trauma of the Middle Passage and all that followed into this equally impossibly creative counternarrative
I just, idk, I can't even articulate. the level of creative genius it takes to transcend even for a moment the insane toxicity of American racial history + race relations.