The Other People Place - Let Me Be Me

Retrospective Lookback Part XX

One of the greatest recording artists of all time, irrespective of genre. As a voracious (collector/dj/producer/engineer/journalist) of music for many decades, the music of the sadly departed James Stinson from Detroit under numerous pseudonyms, defies time and change from analog to digital and remains undefiant as the standard bearer. One must realise that it was not just his music but the ideology and the correlation of the 7 "Wave" projects and corresponding concept albums on the most respected and longstanding Techno labels such as Tresor, Warp, Submerge/UR and Aphex Twin's Rephlex records that magnified his brilliance. Anonymity was important to James. For nearly a decade, outside of Detroit, very few people knew the identity of Drexciya. James never exposed his face and gave only one radio interview. It turns out that James was a lorry driver from Detroit. The long distance haulage and road journeys gave him the time to formulate his ideas. I still recall the day back in 2002 when I received a telephone call from Detroit to inform me that James had. tragically lost his battle with his protracted illness. I was genuinely overcome with profound sadness. The loss reverberated throughout the electronic world. The void has never really been filled. I recall websites debating and attempting to decipher the metaphysical code of his collected works and the evolution of the "Drexciyans". A race conceived from pregnant slave mothers who were thrown overboard from slave ships as they were deemed to be noisy and disruptive cargo, to their survival and birth sustained by the ocean and the journey culminating with the evolution of the race and exoplanet migration.

Artist:The Other People Place
Release: Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café LP
Label: Warp Records ‎– WARP LP 90
Format: 2 × Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: UK
Released: 2001 Support Covert Operative by Donation