Space rock’s grammar—elongated forms, drones, tape loops, and immersive stagecraft—grew directly out of mid‑to‑late 1960s psychedelia. At its core were extended, trance-inducing structures, synthesizer textures and sci‑fi mythmaking; depending on the band, it felt either like a utopian drift or a gritty engine-room throb. As the counterculture pushed music toward altered perception, bands folded liquid light shows, non‑Western modalities, and studio trickery into rock, setting up the hypnotic textures that […]