From cognition Sent Sat, Oct 30th 1999, 18:06
From cognition Sent Sat, Oct 30th 1999, 18:06
thanks to everyone who responded
to my email about drexciya. here's
a rough translation of the original
feature in german in de:bug magazine
into english. anyone on the lists who
can translate german into english and
who can repost this below with
corrections? I've put the untranslated
words like so: [untranslated] *?* and
especially wondering what the paragraph
about dopplereffekt vs. drexciya says
as the translation doesn't make much sense.
thanks. andrew duke :)
Back from the Abyss
Drexciya
Detroit was always a secret and brought this secret into electronic
music, so that it
could remain differently its and. And one can see at any
time to Detroit and will
state that all gossip of an end of the fundamental ideas
of electronic music, which
were always ideas against the subject is not only
nonsense, but it also people
gives, which will ensure that it can remain nonsense.
It never really interested, who Mike bank was, who UR is
or red planet, even if
some these things were gradually uncovered, gladly
benefitful, and ever more
photos emerged. It became above all ever more
insignificant except for few
exceptions, which left usually the city. Drexciya is and
remains one of the
obscurest, most mysterious projects of Detroit. The
concept of a world, in which
everything takes place under water. You will know. A
E-Mail with Hotmail.com was
until recently the only contact, which we had. And as
Hotmail was chopped, we
almost would have required themselves, we would have read
its Mails, around
something to find out over the " most mysterious duo of
Detroit " (Eshun).
One does not make it nevertheless then, the interview dates
failed naturally only
times, and even people, which only one kilometer live far
away, talked about " him
" only as submerged. " He`s bake into the Abyss "
(PrismFX, Detroiter artist and
Coverdesigner). Just as suddenly and unexpectedly he was
then nevertheless
again there, had a telephone number, constantly changed
between I and we, the "
real " and Drexciyas world, which logical-proved for him
not separate to let and
was also to be separated not have, and quite more
normally, above all very nice
humans, exactly like one that had actually expected.
De:Bug: How does one come to such different Labels as Rephlex, UR, and
safe
deposit?
Drexciya: One can say it perhaps in such a way: We float.
If one structures a
relationship with humans, then one may her upright her
further develop, can one
while keep, but then it can be that one moves elsewhere.
We move against the
rules, and that is the one thing, in which we believe to
proceed against the rules.
Not to do, what tells us someone to do and not what shows
us someone as only
way. To express that we feel that there is another way.
De:Bug: Who should say to one, what one has to do?
Drexciya: The industry. Like Frank Sinatra already said, it made it in
its way, and
that is exactly what we also say. We DO it our way. If we
deal with other record
Companys, then we are occupied with other fragments of the
Business. Surely,
one can say that 75% sell label their disks within the
same area to that, but
remainder there are these 25% also. And in this way we
create ourselves a larger
territory.
De:Bug: Did you ever come to Europe?
Drexciya: No, but I plan it. For the year 2001, which will be the 10te
year that I
make Drexciya. You could say that it is as in one our
Songs, " The Species From
The Pod ". It needs 10 years, in order to out-breed
something, and if it slips then, it
manifests itself as quite different species. We those
water tested, if we found a
passage, then we here and there a disk released, then
again stopped, are again
decreased/gone back to the laboratory, into which, have
cave wintered. 2001 the
time will not be, in which we can travel, but goes now I
anywhere. There is too
much work in the laboratory.
De:Bug: Do the TRACKS come on " Neptune's Lair " from different times?
Drexciya: Yes. We try to make with our music something for everyone 360
degrees, so that, if someone does not like a TRACK, he can
find perhaps another
good. Whether musicmusic music or Listening does not
interest, us. We make
music, in order to please the [gehoergaenge] *?* of
humans, because I want to keep
the tradition upright, with which I grew up. At that time
and heard the people made
music, which made them lucky. It did not concern Ego
problems or cash.
De:Bug: What for music was that?
Drexciya: I heard everything. Of new Wave, Punk, [skirt] *?*, Techno and
HipHop, or
which it at that time was, Afrika Bambaataa, Newcleus and
so, and it gave the P to
radio of ALL star, George Clinton, Jimi Hendrix, the
B52`s, Wham, everything.
Here in Detroit probably new Wave and HipHop radio were
most important. The
musical talent of this time put much energy and work into
the music. It did not
concern to press a few buttons. And just as hard we want
to operate on us.
De:Bug: Is it possible that you are exactly the same assumed in Detroit
like here?
Very low profiles, unknown, somewhat mysterous? The people
see you
nevertheless on the road.
Drexciya: No, not really. I keep myself very covered. We belong to no
Posse, we
not too often go to parties, and if, then rather times,
briefly inconspicuously, care
us not for this " show who you [bist] *?*" thing. I may
not it pushen this page. I do not
have it also. It is more important to me, if the people
can feel, for which it goes with
Drexciya. That does not have to do anything with the fact
that one would have to
often see me. I want to please with my music and perhaps
with the visual
impressions, which she creates and which they will
accompany. Animated videos
make, in order to show better, for which it goes with
Drexciya, because Livevideos
are perfectly impossible, finally would have one, in order
the real feeling of
Drexciya too to get, a line into my heading to put.
De:Bug: Who is your partner actually?
Drexciya: You know that I that gladly legend, but well, it is not
Doppler effect. When
we put Drexciya one while ago again times on ice, in order
to make Research, it
decided to make its own project and to it also nothing is
false. But we keep the
two things very strongly separate. Perhaps I operate a
daily also solo, but but I am
now not yet ready. Drexciya can develop only with us for
both, because alone that
results in simply another sound.
De:Bug: Would the concept of the water be still so important, if you
operate alone?
Drexciya: Let it me say in such a way. Water is the strongest item on
this planet. If
one would melt the polar caps, then we would be completely
flooded, nobody
could that stop or as much for water evaporate. We would
be dead all, became
somewhere [rumfloatenrumfloaten rumfloaten] *?*. It is the
strongest, most dangerous,
most beautiful, [zarteste] *?*, aggressive item, which
gives it. And that is it, for which
we are. We are aggressively, easily, calmly, can be
beautifully, achieve roughly,
ugly by force and all these things with music. Water is
also this place, at which there
are no problems, which make it here above
arduous so. We try to keep this force away from Drexciya.
Drexciya is actually
peaceful. Therefore we return also again and again to this
calm, peaceful, jazzy,
ambient page of the life. The military view of the things,
which is very strong with
UR, is for us rather like a reservoir. But after the
reserve we come again and again
back to Drexciya, in order to be, which we are, civilians.
I met many people, those,
if they hear our TRACKS and the title in addition, to
understand and to feel be
able, from where we come. We always designate our TRACKS,
after we make
them. Titles give a further dimension for the TRACKS.
If we make pieces, it concerns thereby always also one
moment, which we catch. It
is made all live in in or for two Takes. If somewhat
static noise is thereby, then that
gives a signature to the whole one. It can never get
remixed. That is important to
us, because we would never let someone remix a Drexciya
TRACK. We would
not make it times. Destroys the music, and what music
should be. I hate it. And I
see that things occur there, which I despise. Remixes are
an agent of segregation.
It different mix made for different " races ". Why can't
there only be one for all, how
it was in former times? Music is to be for everyone. They
try to separate us
thereby. The music industry. And the people do not talk
times more [drueber] *?*, all
R. Kellys and Whitney Houstons, them know it probably not
yet times.
They do not think about it, like the Remix will be used
and for what. On the
so-called black radio in former times everything ran, but
now only " black
music ". That separates us mentally, and so it is not to
be. And I will not participate
in this plan of the industry.
De:Bug: But segregation came at least beforehand.
Drexciya: Yes, there was always segregation, but we had tried to
loose-will her.
And to certain way they introduced it again. At that time
the people really met. By
the music. And they heard everything.
De:Bug: And that was also immensely important for the music history of
Detroit.
Drexciya: Exactly, it brought things in course. It was more fun. And the
people were
more calmly, safer. Now is many more one-sided all. Tunnel
vision. There is no
more other taste. That is not good.
De:Bug: What can one make against it?
Drexciya: I can do me only [raushalten] *?* there. Participate not in it
and me refuse.
The others must received, which occurs and stops, to go
through. Perhaps the
people will wake up, in a type Snowball effect.
De:Bug: Will it again so for a long time last up to the next Drexciya
disk?
Drexciya: No, that is now the peace before the storm. One can hear it.
It at the
titles see. If you are really intelligent, and I like that
at the people, which like
Drexciya, it am all philosopher, intelligent people, then
you will hear, what will
occur. We must actually say to it nothing. Drexciya
listeners can give us the Lyrics.
De:Bug: Which you think of the change, which it gave some time ago with
Underground Resistance, when they suddenly emerged with
High Tech radio as a
type new focus everywhere.
Drexciya: I actually cannot talk about it. I keep myself away rather
from all. The
reason for it is that I do not want to take over the Vibes
of others. There I am surely
own. But if you are much with someone together, then you
take over its type, its
movements and words. I do not want that in the music. I do
not try to pursue also,
which occurs in music. That gives me energy and freshness.
I try, me naive in
certain way unite to things opposite to keep. I [white]
*?* it, do not have to know it, and I
do not want to know it. The only one, which I must know,
is whether you well are,
and you, whether I well am, and that one will help
oneself, if not.
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