“Astral travel, soul retrieval, and pushing the limits of artistry to truly experience the self ... these are the ideas that came to me as I refined this playlist. I thought of the creation of space in finite spaces made infinite, a hyperlinking to the realm of ideas. I thought of Black artists experiencing boundlessness, timelessness, and digging deeper to claim galactic identities that are more expansive than the ones often crafted for them on Earth. Music is its own dimension—a space of aspiration reaching across times to buoy the human uplift. This playlist is a sojourn through the multiverse to re-experience oneself. Soaring past the crossroads where inner space and outer space meet, this Earth-born music that spans from jazz to blacktronica to soul keeps us both rooted in the terra yet one among the stars.” —Ytasha L. Womack