drexciya & the other people place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=val0J-XuuXk

Lifestyles of the Laptop Café is definitely one of my favourite albums of all time. Could any of you electro music history wizards tell me which of the numerous Drexciya-related side projects bear the most resemblance to this album?

Associated acts according to wikipedia: Abstract Thought, Arpanet, Clarence G, Der Zyklus, Dopplereffekt, Elecktroids, Glass Domain, Intellitronic, Japanese Telecom, Lab Rat XL, L.A.M., Shifted Phases, Transllusion

Cheers :)

I'm guessing you already have the EP as well?

Other People Place is part of the Drexciya storm-series, 7 albums made in a really short amount of time between 2000-2002 I guess. If you want something in the vein of that album check out the other storm-albums by Abstract Thought, Shifted Phases, Lab Rat XL, Transllusion (which has 2 albums) and the Harnessed the Storm album of Drexciya. Grava 4 by Drexciya is sometimes added to the list as well but was made/released after the 'storm'. I must say that the Other People Place album is completely unique in feeling, also an alltime fav of mine. Correct me if I'm wrong but the Other People Place album was a solo-record of James Stinson, just like Lab Rat XL, Transllusion and Shifted Phases, so your best bet is with those 3.

Def check out this site as well, it has everything on James Stinson and Gerald Donald - http://www.drexciyaresearchlab.webs.com/

And for a pretty good total rip-off of the Other People Place, check out this track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2529UnW22Mk

  On 7/10/2013 at 2:48 PM, th555 said:

Lifestyles of the Laptop Café is definitely one of my favourite albums of all time.

Same here! A few years ago I made a point to track down all the storm albums and I'm very glad I did.

They're all worthwhile and awesome, but I agree with Herr that The Other People Place has a pretty unique soulful sound among the rest of the storm series—I don't think there is another album that sounds like it in the bunch.

Start with the storm series for sure, and work backwards in their discography. That's what I did, and my favorite stuff is still these later albums, because they have that weird, soulful, unstable, personal, psychedelic sound. Earlier Drexciya is brilliant as well, but it can have a much harder edge.

Yeah I heard about the Storm series, but back then I couldn't find much info on those albums, and then I kinda forgot about it. I'll look into it again! Drexciya is indeed Stinson solo, so I'll check out his other solo projects as well. Thanks a lot guys!

PS don't get me wrong, I love early Drexciya as well. It's just that it's indeed quite a bit harsher, and sometimes of varying quality. Lifestyles on the other hand is smooth (and indeed unstable, that's a nice way of putting it) and all killer no filler.

I think Lab Rat XL is the one that's closest to OTP.

Definitely Lab Rat XL, the third track on the album is a classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekvABDavUMU

Just what I was looking for :)

Bubble control out.

that let me be me song is nice. Ahh i haven't listened to electro/acid in ages. Such a great genre.

Btw, I just found out 2 short films have been made based on the Drexciya theme.

That's a trailer for the 2012 one, the other one's from 010. Music in this sounds familiar (but it's not drexciya :P).

  On 7/10/2013 at 5:18 PM, delet... said:

that let me be me song is nice. Ahh i haven't listened to electro/acid in ages. Such a great genre.

Just to update my post .. there's a lot of shit too.

Don't you get that with every genre, and every thing in general? :P

yeah i know, but i was reminded by a couple of things that i heard, and so needed the qualifier, just so you know. heh. just so you know.

i got the other people's place i think it sucks, i'm just not feeling it (though i want to)

i've been meaning to check out drexciya.. thanks for the reminder

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  On 7/10/2013 at 9:02 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

i got the other people's place i think it sucks, i'm just not feeling it (though i want to)

PERMABAN

haha i can't help it. I tried but when i hear it i just wanna put on some analord or autechre, i just don't get it i think

Some people seem to think it's "just" some simple loops thrown together and alternated every x measures. They're somewhat right, of course, but I still think it's great :P

I'd say Lifestyles is a bit more subtle than the Analords, with its long repetitive tracks.

oh wow why haven't i ever heard this album before. good!

  On 7/10/2013 at 9:02 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

i got the other people's place i think it sucks, i'm just not feeling it (though i want to)

The "groove" is at the heart and soul of each track in that album. Sometimes it doesn't click for some people, or for me, it doesn't always click for me depending on my mood. As th555 said, Subtle is the perfect descriptor.

I always thought this album was a very successful merging or house and downtempo with the techniques James used in his "typical" techno and electro releases. It's a very emotional album. I do not know exactly when he recorded it, but this was within a year of Stinson's untimely death.

http://youtu.be/9d407EomWvk

i'll give it another chance but i don't think it will hit me

You better start liking this album mate!

transllusion has one good album and one stinker

dimensional glide, maaan

also the dj stingray/other peoples place split 12" if you haven't already checked it out.

lifestyles of the laptop café is the coziest album ever. listening to it feels like wrapping yourself in a warm blanket and drinking a cup of tea while on some wonderful drug.

That's a good idea right there.