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Drexciyan Wavejumper Commandos somewhere in the Atlantic"On February first nineteen-hundred-and-ninety-five, the Drexciyan Tactical Seaforces received orders from UR Strikeforce Command, for one final mission. The dreaded Drexciyan Stingray and Barracuda Battalions were dispatched from the Bermuda Triangle. Their search and destroy mission to be carried out during the Winter Equinox of 1995 against the Programmer strongholds. During their return journey home to the Invisible City, one final mighty blow will be dealt to the Programmers. Aquatic knowledge for those who know." --- the Unknown Writer (Label notes to the " Aquatic Invasion" EP (UR30))Underground...or Underwater?The first sightings of this nebulous Detroit Techno/Electro outfit began during 1991, forming close liaisons with Underground Resistance and Submerge. "Staying low and staying true", each installment of the mighty Drexciya discography narrates fantastic accounts of conflict and survival in the dark depths of unwritten history chapters; tales of ...yesternow. Swimming with stories of `aquatic funk bombs and `Darthouven Fish Men, Drexciyan philosophy, technology and time travel are very real aspects and vital parts to the project.Recording mainly within the UR, Submerge, Shockwave triumverate, Drexciyan outings with labels outside of Detroit have been rare with the exception of one-offs for Warp and Rephlex. Tresor established contact with Drexciya in 1993 via UR with the release of "Deep Detroit Vol. 2: Magic Tracks Compiled by Juan Atkins" featuring Drexciya´s "Positron Island"; the track which for many European youth would become anthemic, sonically defining the magic that is Detroit. Within the then revolutionary climates found in united Germany and other Eastern European countries finding themselves anew, Drexciya was the sound of originality; music for change and identity. Armed with freestyle Electro, Techno and Funk, Drexciya defies categorization and sounds like ...`Drexciya.
In Kodwo Eshun´s words*, Each Drexciya EP militarizes Parliament´s 70´s and Hendrix´s 60´s Atlantean utopias. In the sleevenotes to The Quest, their 1997 concept double-CD, the Drexciyans are revealed to be a marine species descended from `pregnant America-bound African slaves thrown overboard `by the thousands during labour for being sick and disruptive cargo. Drexciyans areÇ water breathing, aquatically mutated descendants, webbed mutants of the Black Atlantic amphibians adapted for the ocean´s abyssal plains... Drexciya use electronics to replay the alien abduction of slavery with a fictional outcome: `Did they migrate from the Gulf of Mexico to the Mississippi River Basin and to the Great Lakes of Michigan? Do they walk among us?* More Brilliant Than the Sun:Adventures in Sonic Fiction (Quartet Books, London, 1998) "The border between social reality and science fiction, social fiction and science reality is an optical illusion" (Donna Haraway). They have been here all along. You are the alien you are looking for.
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Harnessed The Storm
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2002
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Under Sea Disturbances
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Digital Tsunami
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Soul Of The Sea
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Song Of The Green Whale
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Dr.Blowfins' Black Storm Stabilizing Spheres
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The Plankton Organization
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Mission To Ociya Syndor And Back
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Aquatic Cataclysm
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Lake Haze
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Birth Of New Life
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Neptune's Lair
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1999
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Intro: Temple Or Dos De Aqua
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Andreaen Sand Dunes
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Running Out Of Space
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Universal Element
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Habitat 'O' Negative
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Funk Release Valve
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Organic Hydropoly Spores
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Draining Of The Tanks
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Surface Terrestrial Colonization
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Oxyplasmic Gyration Beam
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Triangular Hydrogen Strain
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Bottom Feeders
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C To The Power Of X+C To The Power Of X=MM=Unknown
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