James Stinson

James Marcel Stinson (September 14, 1969 – September 3, 2002) was an American techno musician from Detroit. Known for his work in the Detroit techno genre, he co-founded the Afrofuturist techno duo Drexciya with Gerald Donald in 1992. As a solo artist, he released music as The Other People Place and other aliases.

Stinson was regarded as one of the most well-known producers of techno and electro in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was also credited as one of Detroit's most influential musicians of the 1990s and as a pioneer of Afrofuturism in electronic music.

Biography James Marcel Stinson was born in Detroit's East Side on September 14, 1969 He graduated from Kettering High School in 1989.

Stinson's first musical release was an EPs released in 1991 called Hyperspace Sound Lab under the alias Clarence G on the now-defunct Flourescent Sounds label. The following year, he formed Drexciya with Gerald Donald. Stinson was also a member of the Detroit-based Underground Resistance techno collective in the early 1990s. In 1995, Stinson and Donald formed a short-lived duo called Elecktroids. They released an EP that July followed by an album, Elektroworld, in August. His best known solo work, Lifestyles of the Laptop Café, was released by Warp on September 3, 2001, under his moniker of The Other People Place. The record, which features Stinson’s own vocals, was noted for its jazz and tech house influences and for its simplicity in sound and narrative in contrast to his work with Drexciya.

Following the release of Lifestyles of the Laptop Café, he released an EP and album as Transllusion in November 2001. In early 2002, he released an album as Abstract Thought, as well as two more releases as Transllusion.

In Georgia, he began working on a new album under the alias Shifted Phases. This album, The Cosmic Memoirs of the Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope, was released by Tresor Records posthumously on October 1. A second posthumous release, Mice or Cyborg, was released by Clone Records in November 2003 under the alias Lab Rat X. He was buried in Detroit. In 2017, Clone Records released an EP called Laptop Cafe under the Jack Peoples moniker as part of their Aqualung series. The EP contained six previously unreleased songs from Lifestyles of the Laptop Café.

Discography

Clarence G

EPs

Hyperspace Sound Lab (1991), Flourescent Sound

The Other People Place

Studio albums

Lifestyles of the Laptop Café (2001), Warp

Transllusion

Studio albums

Opening of the Cerebral Gate (2001), Supremat L.I.F.E. (2002), Rephlex

EPs

Mind Over Positive and Negative Dimensional Matter (2001), Supremat Third Eye (2002), Rephlex

Abstract Thought

Studio albums

Hypothetical Situations (2002), Kombination Research

Shifted Phases

Studio albums

The Cosmic Memoirs of the Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope (2002), Tresor

Lab Rat XL

Studio albums

Mice or Cyborg (2003), Clone

Jack Peoples

EPs

Laptop Cafe (2017), Clone

With Drexciya

Studio albums Neptune's Lair (1999), Tresor Harnessed the Storm (2002), Tresor Grava 4 (2002), Clone

Compilation albums The Quest (1997), Submerge Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller I (2011), Clone Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller II (2012), Clone Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller III (2013), Clone Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller IV (2013), Clone

EPs Deep Sea Dweller (1992), Shockwave Records Drexciya 2: Bubble Metropolis (1993), Underground Resistance Drexciya 3: Molecular Enhancement (1994), Rephlex, Submerge Drexciya 4: The Unknown Aquazone (1994), Submerge Aquatic Invasion (1994), Underground Resistance The Journey Home (1995), Warp The Return of Drexciya (1996), Underground Resistance Uncharted (1997), Somewhere in Detroit Hydro Doorways (2000), Tresor

Singles "Fusion Flats" (2000), Tresor "Digital Tsunami" (2001), Tresor "Drexciyan R.E.S.T. Principle" (2002), Clone

With L.A.M.

EPs

Balance of Terror EP (1992), Hardwax

With Elecktroids

Studio Albums

Elektroworld (1995), Warp

EPs

Kilohertz (1995), Warp