Track Listing
1. Temple of dos de Agua
2. Species of the Pod
3. Andreaen Sand Dunes
4. Running Out of Space
5. Habitat 'O' Negative
6. Universal Element
7. Difting Into a Time of No Future
8. Polymono Plexusgel
9. Surface Terrestrial Colonization
10. Funk Release Valve
11. Organic Hydropoly Spores
12. Draining of the Tanks
13. Devil Ray Cove
14. Fusion Flats
15. Triangular Hydrogen Strain
16. Oxyplasmic Gyration Beam
17. Quantum Hydrodynamics
18. Lost Vessel
19. Bottom Feeders
20. Jazzy Fluids
21. C to the Power of X+C to the Power of X = Unknown
| Details | | Distributor: | KGD Media Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Exalted and held high above all electro artists, the mysterious Drexciya touts a secret history and a most unusual manifesto. The anonymous artists behind Drexciya represent themselves as the "true Detroit" people--African-Americans displaced by Motor City industry who sought refuge under the waves and evolved into an amphibious race of superhuman fish-men. They're deadly serious about this, and Drexciya's infrequent transmissions of soulful, silvery techno-funk and electro have become a beacon to producers far and wide.
As the earlier THE QUEST compiles much of Drexciya's treasured vinyl catalog--as near as Detroit has come to a hymnbook--NEPTUNE'S LAIR can be treated as the first proper Drexciya album. As such, it's worthy of future status as holy techno writ. Liquescent electro numbers like "Surface Terrestrial Colonization," "Bottom Feeders," "Devil Ray Cove," and "Habitat 'O' Negative" are tinged with sinister ripples that make them as bittersweet as gospel. The moments of techno revelry--"Lost Vessel," "Universal Element," "Andrean Sand Dunes," "Jazzy Fluids"--reach peaks of heart-stirring spiritual joy. Whether Drexciya's back-story proves to be true or not, the fact remains. Few can touch the purity and resplendence of these electronic hymns.
Editorial Reviews
...Creating powerful myths out of pop cult flotsam and then relocating them beneath the waves has had some pretty impressive antecedents....a curiously distant and detached proposition....compelling...
The Wire (11/01/1999)
7 out of 10 - ...Quite capable of raising Atlantis' roof....[Their] sonar-like bleepscapes....appropriate the ocean deep as an ancestral home, proposing a sci-fi scenario...where a race of water-breathing Afronauts deliver whitey a glow-stick beatdown...
Spin (05/01/2000)
...adds melancholy melodies to their Afro-futurist blueprint, lending passion to what could otherwise become sci-fi clichT. A hefty depth charge of liquid digital funk.
Mojo
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