Elecktroids
Elektroworld

1995: the trajectory of the four Düsseldorf robots is, excluding their remarkable return on bicycles, now declining, not to say concluded.

4,024.6 miles (6,477 kilometers) separate Düsseldorf from Detroit, where the 26-year-old James Stinson has already shaped, in complete anonymity, his personal techno endocosm: the underground/underwater Drexciya.

4 anonymous mannequins —the Electroids— appear hooded, pixelated against a yellow background, reminiscent of the eighth album of the "Electric central" four. Only after a few years can we put a face to them: they are human, the two duos Drexciya (James Stinson + Gerald Donald) and Ultradyne (Alex Lugo + Dennis Richardson).

16 musical tracks are all that the four release as Electroids, all in that same 1995, distributed as follows: 5 in 1 EP (“Kilohertz”) and 11 in 1 LP (“Elektroworld”).

44 are the words I use to describe their electro-world: theirs is not a mere reproduction of the Kraftwerkian stylistics, far from it. It's as if the underground/underwater of Detroit was the place where four display dummies found themselves, chewing on gloomy techno from industrialized cities instead of Sputnik and Lissitzky.