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.This highly pretentious 1996 documentary about futurist tendencies in black music—the narrators and talking heads are almost embarrassing to watch—features George Clinton, Derrick May, Stephen R. Delany, Nichelle Nichols, Juan Atkins, DJ Spooky, Goldie and gives a good overview of the music, ideas, and inadvertently, the style.

Space Is The Place.Jazz totally is a four letter word, but Sun Ra's style is EPIC. His thing was being lost in space and transporting the African-American population to another planet—very Moses and exodus vibes. He was super on the metallic vibe, rocking cloaks, caps, and massively oversized alien jewelry.



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Video for "Planet Rock".Fashion-wise, calling Afrika Bambaataa afrofuturist is dodgier ground, though Afrika loved to play on the whole ancient Egypt space alien thing. He and the Soulsonic Force rocked some fairly striking hairstyles and the regulation visor-like shades, though musically they were total afrofuturists.

