interview with gerald donald *drexciya*
http://drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.com/2005/12/arpanet-interview.html
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http://drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.com/2005/12/arpanet-interview.html
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interview qith gerald donald *drexciya*
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bassnation
the abyss
mms said:
i thought the guy behind drexciya died a few years ago - or am i getting mixed up with another detroit electro producer?
is it just my imagination, or was one of the Drexciya guys behind that Other People Place LP that Warp issued so many years ago?...some record store guy recently told me that it was the least-selling thing in Warp's catalog...(I, however, think it's one of the best things Warp has ever dropped)...
Martin Dust
Techno Zen Master
The new Urban Tribe stuff is the bomb, buy on sight!
Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
what's it like?
Martin Dust
Techno Zen Master
Soulful electro with Ae gitters, the sound of machines making porn...What Shake is to techno, Sherard is to electro, if that makes any sense Paul...
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Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
sounds like wicked stuff...
Freakaholic
not just an addiction
From that blogsite:
"...respect is certainly due to UK label Rephlex for being the first European label to licence Drexciya music and introduce them to what would become their major market."
Why is this? I live in Chicago, and first heard of Drexciya in LA. When I came back, no one really knows who they are, even those well versed in electro. I am going through this site to learn more, but it seems their history is strange...?
"...respect is certainly due to UK label Rephlex for being the first European label to licence Drexciya music and introduce them to what would become their major market."
Why is this? I live in Chicago, and first heard of Drexciya in LA. When I came back, no one really knows who they are, even those well versed in electro. I am going through this site to learn more, but it seems their history is strange...?
luka
Well-known member
Detroit duo Drexciya disperse the AfricanAmerican diaspora from the
depths of the Atlantic into outer space.
"Our technology forces us to live mythically" Marshall McLuhan
In their six year history, Detroit's ultraelusive electronic duo Drexciya have surfaced
periodically, four or maybe five times, giving stern, brief interviews that read like
briefings from an unannounced war. There are few if any pictures available.
Intensifying the modus operandi of open secrecy adopted by Underground Resistance
and Basic Channel, they have obsolesced biography and personality, generating a
vacuum filled by machine music mythology, an electronic mythos further mystified
rather than clarified by The Quest, their first and final CD.
From 199197, each Drexciya EP "Deep Sea Dweller", "Bubble Metroplis", "Molecular
Enhancement", "The Unknown Aquazone" double pack, "Aquatic Invasion", "The
Journey Home", "The Return of Drexciya", "Uncharted" has pursued a second wave
Electro that purges all tomtoms, cowbells and claves, leaving a caustic Techno
soundworld that intimidates, enthrals and terrorises. The title track of 93's "Bubble
Metropolis" EP is a tone film in which a Drexciyan submersible docks at Lardossan
Cruise Control. "AquaWormhole", on the same EP, is their loveliest track by far; an
underwater skank of ear caressing striations and bubblicious synth.
Both are exceptions in the unremittingly alien explorations into what they call aquatic
assault programming. Instead of emulating orchestras or choirs, they use the
synthesizer as a sonic weapon, which Xenakis calls a Sonotron, to pulsate, emit and
radiate inharmonic tones. Drexciya specialise in tones that scour and slide at the
same time. Harsh glissement, dry wetness, acrid liquid, alkaline solutions. Rather
than projecting imaginary soundtracks onto the mind's screen, Drexciyan Techno puts
a distance between you and it. To listen is to be shut out of their inhuman world. You
want in to that world but all your senses tell you that you won't survive it.
Drexciya's anempathetic tones repudiate musicality, block the pathways to familiar
emotions and get directly on your nerves. This nervous excitation is carving new
routes through the distributed brain which is you, firing neuroelectric charges across
the synaptic junctures. The machines are mutating you, conducting frequencies
across your skin that lower body temperatures, inhibiting, constricting until you want
to flee from the skin you're in. The Sonotron provokes tactile hallucinations, the
sensations of being scoured, abraded, attacked by ang
depths of the Atlantic into outer space.
"Our technology forces us to live mythically" Marshall McLuhan
In their six year history, Detroit's ultraelusive electronic duo Drexciya have surfaced
periodically, four or maybe five times, giving stern, brief interviews that read like
briefings from an unannounced war. There are few if any pictures available.
Intensifying the modus operandi of open secrecy adopted by Underground Resistance
and Basic Channel, they have obsolesced biography and personality, generating a
vacuum filled by machine music mythology, an electronic mythos further mystified
rather than clarified by The Quest, their first and final CD.
From 199197, each Drexciya EP "Deep Sea Dweller", "Bubble Metroplis", "Molecular
Enhancement", "The Unknown Aquazone" double pack, "Aquatic Invasion", "The
Journey Home", "The Return of Drexciya", "Uncharted" has pursued a second wave
Electro that purges all tomtoms, cowbells and claves, leaving a caustic Techno
soundworld that intimidates, enthrals and terrorises. The title track of 93's "Bubble
Metropolis" EP is a tone film in which a Drexciyan submersible docks at Lardossan
Cruise Control. "AquaWormhole", on the same EP, is their loveliest track by far; an
underwater skank of ear caressing striations and bubblicious synth.
Both are exceptions in the unremittingly alien explorations into what they call aquatic
assault programming. Instead of emulating orchestras or choirs, they use the
synthesizer as a sonic weapon, which Xenakis calls a Sonotron, to pulsate, emit and
radiate inharmonic tones. Drexciya specialise in tones that scour and slide at the
same time. Harsh glissement, dry wetness, acrid liquid, alkaline solutions. Rather
than projecting imaginary soundtracks onto the mind's screen, Drexciyan Techno puts
a distance between you and it. To listen is to be shut out of their inhuman world. You
want in to that world but all your senses tell you that you won't survive it.
Drexciya's anempathetic tones repudiate musicality, block the pathways to familiar
emotions and get directly on your nerves. This nervous excitation is carving new
routes through the distributed brain which is you, firing neuroelectric charges across
the synaptic junctures. The machines are mutating you, conducting frequencies
across your skin that lower body temperatures, inhibiting, constricting until you want
to flee from the skin you're in. The Sonotron provokes tactile hallucinations, the
sensations of being scoured, abraded, attacked by ang
mvuent
Void Dweller
wasn't sure it was eshun until the part about skin
"I would suggest that "touch" is not so much a separate sense as the very interplay of the senses"
