 Frequently referred to as an afrofuturist, he said he "do[es] not wish to specify any particular ethnicity".With Drexciya, he made techno music on which an afrofuturist mythology was built, involving the Drexciyans, an underwater race, "the descendants of the African women thrown overboard in the transatlantic slave trade".Their songs had marine and maritime themes and titles; live, they appeared only masked.