James Stinson of Drexciya produced just a single full-length under the alias the Other People Place, yet that lone effort ranks among the most treasured and elusive items linked to the storied Detroit electro pair. Warp issued the project, titled Lifestyles of the Laptop Café, in 2001—the same label that had put out Drexciya’s The Journey Home EP six years earlier. Departing from the science-fiction and futurist motifs long tied to Drexciya and its offshoots, the record’s minimal arrangements instead convey unexpected tenderness, with tracks such as “You Said You Want Me” conveying isolation and desire. Stinson’s sudden passing in 2002—precisely one year after Lifestyles of the Laptop Café appeared—only amplified Drexciya’s mythic status in subsequent years, rendering physical copies increasingly scarce. An online petition backed by more than a thousand supporters prompted Warp to repress the album in 2017.
