“Could it be possible for humans to breath underwater? A foetus in its mothers womb is certainly alive in an aquatic environment. 

During the greatest holocaust the world has ever known, pregnant America-bound African slaves were thrown overboard by the thousands during labour for being sick and disruptive cargo. Is it possible that they could have given birth at sea to babies that never needed air? 

Recent experiments have shown mice able to breathe liquid oxygen. Even more shocking and conclusive was a recent instance of a premature infant saved from certain death by breathing liquid oxygen through its undeveloped lungs. These facts combined with reported sightings of Gillmen and swamp monsters in the coastal swamps of the South-Eastern United States make the slave trade theory startlingly feasible. 

Are Drexciyans water breathing, aquatically mutated descendants of those unfortunate victims of human greed? have they been spared by God to teach us or terrorise us? Did they migrate from the Gulf of Mexico to the Mississippi river basin and on to the great lakes of Michigan? 

Do they walk among us? Are they more advanced than us and why do they make their strange music? 

What is their Quest? These are many of the questions that you don’t know and never will. The end of one thing…and the beginning of another. 
Out – The Unknown Writer” 

Drexciya was an underwater country populated by the unborn children of pregnant African women thrown off of slave ships that had adapted to breathe underwater in their mother’s wombs.

Real Name: James Marcel Stinson, Gerald Donald

Profile: 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.