An alternate canon of Afrofuturist classics.

“Dematerialize” by Scientist offers a useful introduction to an alternate canon of Afrofuturist classics. From Louis Chude-Sokei's notes:

It begins with echoes, before bass grounds you in space and rhythm orients you in time. Almost a minute passes before you realize this is actually a groove, and another before coalescing into a recognizable genre—reggae, or rather dub, which routes the former’s obsession with Afro-Caribbean culture and racial history through a simulacrum that manipulates roots in order to envision futures as unpredictable as echoes.