Polyrhythms and Afro-futurism: 10 Things You Need to Know about Afrikan Sciences

Below the basements and warehouses of the house-music underground lies a subterranean domain so deep that it's almost completely off the map. These are the spaces and dimensions that Oakland's Afrikan Sciences (a.k.a. Eric Porter Douglass) explores in his increasingly free-form music, which finds a unique place between the leftfield rhythms of Flying Lotus and the spaced-out, post-techno soul of Theo Parrish. His latest album, Theta Wave Brain Sync, was released late last month. Still,...

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