DREXCIYA - Neptune’s Lair (25th Anniversary Edition) - 2LP - 180g White & Grey Vinyl [DEC 6]

2LP - Limited 25th Anniversary Edition Edition 180g White & Grey Vinyl Repress. Includes download code with digital bonus tracks.

In honour of its 25th anniversary, Tresor Records is proud to announce a 2 x 180GM white & grey vinyl edition of one of the most seminal albums in the label's catalog: Drexciya's ‘Neptune's Lair’.

2022 marked the 20th anniversary of the passing of James Stinson and the releases of the Transllusion and Shifted Phases albums. In recognition, the rights holders, their families, and the label have commissioned Detroit-based contemporary artist Matthew Angelo Harrison to re-conceptualize the covers of Tresor's Drexciya-related catalogue.

These editions will be released sequentially, bimonthly, starting early-September 2022. The series starts with Neptune's Lair, first released in 1999, with the Hydro Doorways single arriving shortly after. In November, Harnessed The Storm and Digital Tsunami are coming. In 2023 comes the release of Transllusion in February. The series is completed by the long-awaited re-release of Shifted Phases - The Cosmic Memoirs Of The Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope - at the end of March.

Despite the levels of intense secrecy that has always surrounded Drexciya, the status of their legendary output as representing the most authentic dance-floor orientated Electro and embryonic Detroit Techno remains clear. The two central items in Drexicya's oeuvre - Neptune's Lair and Harnessed the Storm - were released on Tresor between 1999 and 2002 and represent the absolute highpoint of their self-made universe of electro science.

Tracklist:

A1. Intro: Temple Of Dos De Agua - [01:00]
A2. Andreaen Sand Dunes - [06:15]
A3. Running Out Of Space - [01:54]
A4. Universal Element - [01:55]

B1. Habitat 'O' Negative - [05:16]
B2. Funk Release Valve - [03:06]
B3. Organic Hydropoly Spores - [02:07]
B4. Draining Of The Tanks - [02:43]

C1. Surface Terrestrial Colonization - [06:56]
C2. Oxyplasmic Gyration Beam - [04:17]

D1. Triangular Hydrogen Strain - [03:55]
D2. Bottom Feeders - [03:25]
D3. C To The Power Of X + C To The Power Of X=MM=Unknown - [02:35]