Space Afrika

city: Manchester
country: UK
genre: Electronic
styles: Afrofuturism, Dub Techno, Outsider House, Space Ambient

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ABOUT THIS BAND

Manchester UK’s Space Afrika make music of what they term “overlapping moments” – oblique mosaics of dialogue, rhythm, texture, and shadow, half-heard through a bus window on a rainy night.

Known for their warped field recordings, overdriven rhythmic pressure, syrupy pads, and disorienting vocals, cut and pasted over each other, the duo released in the spring of 2021, Untitled (To Describe You), a collaboration with photographer, filmmaker and poet Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh, generating a living, breathing study of the duo's Northern working-class Black British reality.

In January 2021, they announced their signing to Dais Records. Honest Labour, the group's first full-length since 2020's landmark "hybtwibt?" mixtape (have you been through what I’ve been through?) expands the project's palette with classical strings, shimmering guitar, and visionary vocal cameos, leaning further into their enigmatic fusion of ambient unrest and cosmic downtempo. It's a sound both fogged and fragmented, at the axis of songcraft and sound design, born from and for the yearning solitudes of life under lockdown.