DrexciyaThe Journey Home

Label:

Warp Records – WAP | 57

Format:

Vinyl , 12", 33 ⅓ RPM

Country:

UK

Released:

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Electro

Tracklist

Aa Black Sea 6:21
Ab Darthouven Fish Men 2:53
Ba Hydro Theory 6:50
Bb Journey Home 4:41

Companies, etc.

  • Published ByHyperspace (3)
  • Pressed ByDamont
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗Warp Records
  • Copyright ©Warp Records
  • Distributed ByRTM (2)

Credits

  • ArtworkThe Designers Republic
  • Producer, Engineer, Written-ByDrexciya

Notes

The sleeve erroneously states that track Bb runs at 5:41.

Published by Hyperspace BMI.
Distributed by RTM/Pinnacle.
℗ 1995 Warp Records
© 1995 Warp Records

Thanks to Def Con 5 Records Special thanks to God and Underground Resistance (Epsilon Aquazone We're Going Deep)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 5 021603 057067
  • Matrix / Runout (Etching A): WAP 57 A1 DAMONT
  • Matrix / Runout (Etching B): WAP 57 B1 DAMONT B
  • Rights Society: BMI

Other Versions (3)

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
The Journey Home (CD, EP) Warp Records WAP 57CD, WAP | 57CD UK 1995
The Journey Home EP (12", EP, 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo, White Label) Warp Records WAP 57 UK 1995
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The Journey Home (4×File, MP3, EP, Reissue, VBR) Warp Records none UK Unknown

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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, 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
                  theskyisfalling
                  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
                      Repress on the way: https://clone.nl/item29082.html

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