''The Space Negros'' was a late 1970s

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band that disbanded, and regrouped in the early 1980s.

History

''Space'' began as an ''

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'' four-person Boston-based group in the late 1970s. Composer-pianist

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was the ''

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'' of this1975-1987, with a ''timeout''/reboot ensemble, which used a

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voice synthesizer in their 1986 song "Robot." One of the band's records was actually a reissue of a 1980 release.

References

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