Drexciya Day 2024 and more

 

We are about a month out from Drexciya Day (Tues 3rd September) so, as ever, if any fans want to organise an event, be it in person or online, please feel free to do so and if you give me the details I will share them here. 

Liverpool 30th August, Kazimier Garden 6pm til late FB details

Weimar 3rd Sept at C.'Keller FB details

Brussels 6th Sept FB invite/at Cafe Central from 9pm

Birmingham 7th Sept FB invite/Online invite/at Pan Pan venue from 7pm

On 3rd Sept there was a Drexciya special on Nightwave on Glasgow radio station Buena Vida, archived here.

This is something which has grown from fans since 2017 and has existed ever since in a small and sometimes big way. The dates for events are always flexible, give or take a week, but up to now have coincided as close as possible with the date of James Stinson's death. As many of you know however, September is also when Drexciya began as a concept (18th) and suitably even when James Stinson was born (14th). So anytime you want to stage an event in September is good!

Take a look at links in comments with previous events for ideas.

#drexciyaday2024

Gerald Donald (and others) played a show as Daughter Produkt at City Club Augsburg, Germany  on Friday 26th July. It was part of the Water and Sound festival. 

Patrick Wacher of Australian now San Francisco based label Southern Outpost kindly got in touch about the Source Code EP from 2003 which they dedicated to James Stinson.

'This record was our 6th release on the label. The whole record was our small dedication to James Stinson as he passed the prior year. In general, the whole label is/was greatly influenced by Detroit Techno/Electro, specifically the music and ethos of UR & Drexciya. This ep was produced by Sofie Loizou (ShapeShiftr), Phil Chan (Kloc) and myself (The Sentinel) in Sofies studio. This came about after a previous trip to Detroit (one of many back in those days!) catching up with Mike Banks and the Submerge crew. If memory serves me, at this time the label was being distributed by Submerge, just before we moved it across to Clone. Mike had actually given me an obituary program from James’ funeral, which I still have and keep safe.

One small secret is that we were in very early discussions with James to potentially release an ep on Southern Outpost, but it never came to be due to his passing.'

This makes three labels we now know of that James Stinson was in touch with not long before he died about potentially having a future release. It's interesting to imagine what these records would have been like and know that he would have continued to wave-jump and evolve into different scenes around the world. The other labels were Digital Soul (UK) and Isophlux (Miami). 

I also liked the story told on the Discogs site for Outpost, 'whilst Patrick was visiting the old Submerge building at 2030 Grand River Ave, he signed the wall (as all visitors were asked to do) with a personal message to the Submerge crew. It was signed "much respect from the southern outpost". On seeing this, Mad Mike Banks said, "That would be a great name for your record label"... That's where it started.'

Southern Outpost still exist and you can check out their back catalogue via their Bandcamp.

Helena Hauff talks about how she got into Drexciya (3 mins in) and more in this very entertaining new podcast from Tresor Berlin. She has also recently made a great new Tresor Berlin themed mix for Carhartt Work In Progress. She starts it off with Drexciya's 'Intro: Temple Of Dos De Aqua' and also includes 'Scattering Pulsars' by Shifted Phases. 

A downloadable tribute to James Stinson was brought to my attention. It's said to date from not long after he died and the ten tracks were anonymous contributions from various producers. The website no longer works but can be accessed to some degree here (image below).