Drexciya vinyl

Detroit electro-techno outfit Drexciya was conceived in 1989, but first came into the public eye in 1994 with 'Aquatic Invasion' - the first of a thematic series of releases. Drexciya's James Stinson and Gerald Donald remained hidden behind their alias for much of the group's existence, communicating a complex personal mythology of a 'Drexciyan' race of underwater dwellers descended from pregnant slave women thrown overboard during trans-Atlantic deportation. Within this fiction, their music - which they claimed was recorded 'live in the studio' rather than programmed - was imagined as a 'dimensional jumphole' between their black African roots and the contemporary USA.