Drexciya - Harnessed The Storm

2025 Repress – Double LP on 180g Silver Vinyl (with UV Spot Varnish Artwork by Matthew Angelo Harrison)

Tresor Records continues its comprehensive Drexciya reissue series with a stunning repress of Harnessed the Storm, originally released in 2002. Presented on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl with newly re-conceptualized artwork by Detroit artist Matthew Angelo Harrison, this edition honors both the enduring power of Drexciya’s music and the visionary legacy of James Stinson, who passed away the same year of the album’s release.

Harnessed the Storm stands as one of Drexciya’s most ambitious and mysterious works — the first chapter of what Stinson described as the “Seven Storms” project, a series of interconnected albums released under different aliases across various labels. Here, Drexciya channeled their mythic underwater narrative into a concentrated surge of techno energy, aquatic depth, and emotional turbulence.

Across its expansive double LP runtime, the album oscillates between moments of intense propulsion and eerie calm: liquid funk grooves dissolve into rippling electro currents, while deep, synthetic atmospheres suggest both creation and collapse. There’s a sense that the storm is both external and internal — an elemental force to be controlled, or “harnessed,” through rhythm and resistance.

As with Neptune’s Lair, the album’s reemergence is part of a larger project to preserve and celebrate Drexciya’s world — one rooted in Detroit’s Afro-diasporic futurism and the duo’s ongoing exploration of identity, survival, and transformation through sound. Each reissue in the series has been carefully curated to highlight Drexciya’s unparalleled contribution to electronic music history.

With Harnessed the Storm, listeners are once again invited to enter the Drexciyan realm — turbulent, visionary, and alive with electricity. This is not just a reissue, but a vital restoration of one of techno’s most profound artistic statements.