“Imagination is the magic carpet by which we travel from planet to planet” – Sun Ra
King Geedorah – Take Me To Your Leader
Take Me To Your Leader was Daniel Dumille’s first full-length release under his alias “King Geedorah”. The man behind MF Doom based the records eponymous space monster on “King Ghidorah”, the two-tailed, three-headed…
Interview: Martin Gretschmann aka Console
Martin Gretschmann spreads his talent widely. An integral member of groundbreaking German bands The Notwist and 13&God, he also pursues several electronic projects, most notably under the monikers of Console and Acid Pauli….
The RAH Band Re-edited
The RAH Band were a studio group put together by the English producer Richard Anthony Hewson. Now 67 years old, Hewson drew dubious inspiration from his initials and formed the band in 1977,…
Interview: Beppe Loda and the Birth of Afro-funky
DJ Beppe Loda is one of Italy’s pioneer DJs of the 1970s. His fusion of sounds from German space electronics to African percussion tracks have earned him a reputation that led to the…
The Life and Death of Ziggy Stardust
“I fell for Ziggy too. It was quite easy to become obsessed night and day with the character. I became Ziggy Stardust. David Bowie went totally out the window. Everybody was convincing me…
Cosmogramma – The Art of the Codex
The critically acclaimed and seminal future-jazz release of Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus in 2010 was one of the stand-out records of the year. And as anyone who owns a copy of the stunning…
Thundercat – The Golden Age of the Apocalypse
Just when you thought the Brainfeeder camp was becoming the benchmark for what many a blogger likes to refer to as “Glitch Hop” and “Wonky”, the label headed by Steven Ellison (better known…
The Aesthetics of Afro-futurism
A spaceship lands on American grassland and a black pharaoh with platform shoes and a farcical colourful robe steps out of the swirled-up dust followed by an equally bizarre entourage. He sits down…
Sun Ra’s “Space is the Place” – In Full
Made in 1972, and released two years later, Space is the Place is the film and manifesto of intergalactic traveller, sage and jazz pianist Sun Ra. He believed himself to be from Saturn,…
Sun Ra: Space is the Place w/ Marshall Allen
Sun Ra was born Herman P. Blount on May 22, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama, but this is something he categorically denied, even in his later years. To that end, on May 30th 1993…
Music And Space
What does “space” mean in music? Space, in its simplest and broadest terms, is crucial to the existence of music insofar as sound is a play of distances in frequencies and loudness. Space…
Issue #15 : The Space Issue
Welcome to the new issue of iCrates magazine. For those of you unfamiliar with the format, each month iCrates publishes articles under a theme, which brings together a diverse mixture of genres and…
