(313) drexciya in de:bug: translated into english (rough :))

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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