What Seattle’s Afrocop have done here is to reimagine Can’s “Vitamin C”—a subliminal slab of shuffle funk and a B-boy favorite for years—as a space-jazz odyssey. In doing so, they (Noel Brass Jr., Andy Sells, Carlos Tulloss, and Doug Port) continue to add evidence to the theory (mainly mine) that they’re one of this city’s most fascinating bands.

Video by David Delmar.

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...