Part musical group, part performance-art outfit, Public Service Broadcasting is the innovative and geeky work of Londoners J. Willgoose, Esq. and Wrigglesworth. The two earned their reputation for marrying looped dance beats and electronics with spoken-word passages culled from old public-service messages, synced to meticulously edited film footage projected while they perform.

With The Race For Space, Willgoose and Wrigglesworth incorporate original news broadcasts and communications between the astronauts and NASA's master control. Full of buoyant, disco-infused beats and ambient soundscapes, the song cycle retells the American and Soviet tentpole events of the space race between 1957 and 1972 — roughly from Sputnik to Apollo 17 — and lets us hear that historical arc the way many experienced it at the time. The result is ambitious and gorgeous concept music that allows listeners to rekindle the wonder and allure of the cosmos.

Set List:

• "Go!"
• "The Other Side"
• "Spitfire"