Since August 1st I've been trying to concentrate entirely on devouring the oeuvre of Gerald Donald and James Stinson (R.I.P.). We're talking about 24 full hours of music over about 45-50 albums, EPs, and singles including all their various pseudonyms. The reason I am doing this is because I find their music to be relatively tricky to wrap my head around in general, while so many of my friends consider Stinson/Donald to be among the best of their contemporaries. Specifically a lot of Stinson/Donald tunes sound particularly chaotic even to my modern ears well trained in noise, avant garde, and the repetitive loops of minimal classical (Steve Reich, Philip Glass) and "techno" music. I wondered if completely saturating my ears with only their music would change my opinion/enlighten me to their supposed genius at all.
To date I am about halfway through the project based on mostly casual subway ride listening, and I've not been as diligent in avoiding the fast forward button as I'd hoped I could be. It's really difficult to stick to one artist who produced a pretty consistent style of music without listening to anything else for such an extended period of time. I do occasionally give my ears a bit of a break and allow myself to hear some non Stinson/Donald tunage. To date "Wavejumper" from their 1995 "Aquatic Invasion EP" remains my absolute favorite Drexciya tune: http://youtu.be/imKh_TKqHt4 As a side note, the name I've given this experiment - Drexciyan Immersion Project - is a kind of funny nod to the sci-fi underwater mythology that Drexciya built around their music/built their music around. On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jason Kenjar <jasonk1...@gmail.com> wrote: > an undiscovered track or three would be nice..i can dream rite? > > On Sep 1, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Patrick Wacher wrote: > >> Some interesting news on the wire: >> >> http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/09/drexciya-reissues-coming-soon >> >> Sadly, it's been nearly a decade since early '90s Detroit >> techno/electro duo Drexciya last released new music. However, we've >> just discovered that reissues of the pair's early material will be >> surfacing in the near future. Clone Classic Cuts, the reissues imprint >> for Dutch label Clone, announced just yesterday: "We will reissue the >> early Drexciya catalogue on Clone. We are currently busy restoring the >> original master tapes, and hopefully we will have the first one ready >> before the end of the year! Of course, we will keep you updated on the >> process." No further details were shared, but the news itself is >> certainly exciting, to say the least. (via FACT) > > -- peace, frank http://www.deejaycountzero.com http://www.infinitestatemachine.com
