Flexitone - Electricity *
Taken from the album, Geology - A Subjective History Of Planet E - Volume One (Planet E 1999)
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Flexitone were Gerald Donald and Brendan M. Gillen from Detroit.
Gerald Donald...
Detroit Electro / Techno outfit Drexciya was conceived in 1989, but first came into the public eye in 1994 with "Aquatic Invasion" - the first of a thematic series of releases. Drexciya's James Stinson and Gerald Donald remained hidden behind their alias for much of the group's existence, communicating a complex personal mythology of a "Drexciyan" race of underwater dwellers descended from pregnant slave women thrown overboard during trans-Atlantic deportation. Within this fiction, their music - which they claimed was recorded "live in the studio" rather than programmed - was imagined as a "dimensional jumphole" between their black African roots and the contemporary USA.
Sadly Stinson died suddenly on 3rd September 2002 of a heart condition. Donald continues to produce music under other names.
-Discogs.
Brendan M Gillen....
Interdimensional Transmissions, Detroit, USA
Ann Arbor sits about 40 miles away from Detroit, it's rough and tumble older brother. And the city stands proud as home of Brendan M. Gillen, better known as BMG - the man in charge of the Interdimensional Transmissions label and Ectomorph - two dynamic, long-standing Michigan institutions. Little is known about Gillen's private life. Upholding the Detroit tradition of obfuscation, he seems to keep all things that are not directly linked to his music shrouded in mystery. But who cares if we don't know what toppings he prefers on his pizza? What we do know is that this man was - and is - responsible for the re-emergence of electro. His label was behind the release of I-F's Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass - a huge hit with influential DJs such as Sven Vaeth and Dave Clark, regarded as the tune that put electro back on everyone's playlist. As of late, you might find Gillen giving vinyl and laptop DJ performances as BMG of Ectomorph.
-Red Bull Music Academy:
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/video-archive/lectures...* Originally released in 1995 on the EP, Nausicaä (Planet E).
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