{"product_id":"the-other-people-place-lifestyles-of-the-laptop-cafe","title":"The Other People Place - Lifestyles Of The Laptop Cafe","description":"\u003cp\u003eTucked away in the great depths of the Warp catalog is this elegant, liquid heartache of a record. An album credited to the late James Stinson, one half of cult-Detroit techno unit (alongside Gerald Donald) Drexciya, Lifestyles... stands as one of the remarkable records of the genre. Stinson died a year afterrelease, lending this already beautiful work endless resonance. Where the dystopian aqua-tronics of previous Drexciya were often jet-black, cold, brittle and abrasive this is a yearning soul music, played out down rain soaked streets, the buzzing lights of industry flickering in the darkness, the warm blue of a new day ready to break. This is a record where techno reached its raw, most emotive peak... Sustained pads paint minor-key melodies while electroid-vocals are buried deep in the hydrothermal mass of squelching bass-clusters and funky-filtered bleeps. At its skittering percussion core, a stripped back 808 tapestry, sequenced into myriad jazz-inflected shapes, a pulsing kick drum the snapping heartbeat, ticking hi-hats bursting from every angle. All this tingles with the ghosts of records past, of Kraftwerkian humanoids, of first-wave Detroit, of refracted Hancock and Ayres, but as Stinson intones on the fifth track, ‘let me be what I wanna be’, Lifestyles is a creation all of its own special making, a sound that would inspire the latter day deep-house machinations of Omar S, Jus-Ed, Moodymann and influence–however indirectly- a wealth of current UK\/US bass operators including Actress and Kyle Hall. More importantly it remains a beguiling epitaph to Stinson’s sadly distinguished life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2g1mSMiFxKo?si=0jRqV9IcDejkJ59z\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/9797252-The-Other-People-Place-Lifestyles-Of-The-Laptop-Caf%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"DISCOGS\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eDISCOGS\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blueprint Grooves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336622031042,"sku":null,"price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/7518\/7138\/files\/Otherpeopleplaces.jpg?v=1774996000","url":"https:\/\/blueprintgrooves.com\/products\/the-other-people-place-lifestyles-of-the-laptop-cafe","provider":"Blueprint Grooves","version":"1.0","type":"link"}