Drexciya – Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller I

The seminal Drexciya duo was active from 1992 to 2002 and crafted some of Detroit’s most original electronic music using basic Japanese hardware. They built an entire underwater mythology inspired by Afrofuturism around the sounds and imagined aquatic descendants of enslaved Africans thrown overboard during the Middle Passage. Their music is raw, funky and sci-fi but sub-aquatic, so defined the genres of the day, and still do now, decades on. Their urgent rhythms and cryptic transmissions play out like a movie for the mind and Clone’s excellent compilations reintroduced their sound to a new audience when the first pressing landed. This latest reissue preserves again the music’s analogue warmth and mystique as Drexciya’s legacy remains as enigmatic and influential as ever.