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DrexciyaThe Journey Home

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Techno, Electro

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Tracklist

Black Sea6:21
Darthouven Fish Men2:53
Hydro Theory6:50
Journey Home4:41

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    Cover of The Journey Home, 1995-02-13, VinylThe Journey Home
    12", 33 ⅓ RPM
    Warp Records – WAP 57, Warp Records – WAP | 57UK1995UK1995
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    Cover of The Journey Home, 1995-02-13, CDThe Journey Home
    CD, EP
    Warp Records – WAP 57CD, Warp Records – WAP | 57CDUK1995UK1995
    Cover of The Journey Home EP, 1995, VinylThe Journey Home EP
    12", EP, 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo, White Label
    Warp Records – WAP 57UK1995UK1995
    Cover of The Journey Home, , FileThe Journey Home
    4×File, MP3, EP, Reissue, VBR
    Warp Records – noneUKUK
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    Reviews

    • j_ellemore's avatar
      j_ellemore
      Hydro Theory sounded like nothing else being released at the time, killer track and legendary EP.
      • vinyl.mind's avatar
        vinyl.mind
        If anyone has a spare cover sleeve, i would be interested.
        • ZeroZone's avatar
          ZeroZone
          Design-wise, there's a close connection between this release, Elecktroids - Kilohertz and Ultradyne - E Coli. No coincidence, of course...
          • pw1129's avatar
            pw1129
            Lore‏‏‎‏‏‎‏‏‎. ‎
            • Thunderloops's avatar
              Thunderloops
              Possibly my favourite of all the Drexciya records, and the easiest to get. Moody and smooth, Journey Home is a great piece of middle mood bouncey electronica, while Black Sea is very classic Drexciyan intensity. Across 4 tracks it really sums the variety of Drexciyan expression and is a great intro to the band.
              • 9093's avatar
                9093
                Ron Hardy?
                I'm sure..but call a pedant.
                Wrong City saan.
                • 9093's avatar
                  9093
                  Re below.
                  303's? Where?
                  Some people ought to refrain from touching things that look like they say qwerty.

                  Anyways, when I get on desert island on r4 black sea is in there.
                  • theskyisfalling's avatar
                    You can buy the 4 volume Clone reissues that feature the 4 tracks from this ep for about £15 a pop, or you could just spend that £60 on this. Or be greedy and get'em all.
                    • reverberation's avatar
                      reverberation
                      Edited 11 years ago
                      A lot of people talk about how the electronic rawness was born in Chicago. due to limited funds by artists like Phuture and Ron Hardy who had to use scrappy mixers and cheap karaoke machine called TB-303, but a lot of people do not discuss about how Drexciya took that rawness into a different completely imaginative direction.

                      The Drex crew hit the jackpot with this EP, it fits like fingers to glove to the "freakiness" and the "weirdness" Warp records presented in those current times. "Darthouven Fish Men" is a dirty melody which sounds like a computer malfunction repeatedly hitting an error, it is jumpy and crunchy with scattered envelops all around.

                      "Black Sea" is a deep journey into Detroit's famous Packard Automotive Plant rave scene which was flourishing in the 90's, it is trance before trance was gentrified. the thing so unique about Drexicya is that they used distortion but it never sounded bad quality distortion, it was a matter of science for James & Gerald - how can we make heavily distorted and compressed sounds without making them sound bad?

                      "Hydro Theory" is the treasure here, that breathing heavily sound in the background is probably timed frame to the recognizable Drexciya, anybody who bootlegs that aquarium deep sea sound will get his ass whooped instantly thinking he is playing a Drex track.

                      "Journey Home" offers a more instrumental side to things with a light funky attitude. its an alien keyboard with a humorist twist, known legacy of this moniker.
                      • ziipfel's avatar
                        ziipfel

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