The Other People Place

𝙁𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚’𝙨 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝘾𝙖𝙛é 𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙣 𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙮𝙡. 𝘼 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜-𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙒𝙖𝙧𝙥 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚.

It’s hard to sum up in words just how important Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café truly is. Originally released back in 2001 as part of the Drexciyan off-shoot Storm Series, Lifestyles was one of the various projects of one-half of deep sea electro pioneers Drexciya, James Stinson. Shrouded in mystery, the two members of Drexciya took the blueprint laid out by the pioneers of the hypnotic groove, Kraftwerk and gave it a truly electro feel – cold, yet funky. Where Drexciya’s sound was focused in the deepest corners of the ocean, James’s work as The Other People Place was a solo project that turned its gaze elsewhere, most notably in the direction of love.

Like all of the very best techno and electro, The Other People Place yields some of the most beautiful sounds to emerge from the D with a limited sound pallette, stripping everything back to the essentials to compose an incredibly important yet delicate album that still to this day continues to fascinate and seduce with its strikingly subtle flow and elegant mystery.