Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco, California. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, country, jazz, psychedelia, space music"purveyors of freely improvised space music," -- [LINK: http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=932] Blender Magazine, May 2003""Dark Star," both in its title and in its structure (designed to incorporate improvisational exploration), is the perfect example of the kind of "space music" that the Dead are famous for. Oswald's titular pun "Grayfolded" adds the concept of folding to the idea of space, and rightly so when considering the way he uses sampling to fold the Dead's musical evolution in on itself." -- Islands of Order, Part 2,by Randolph Jordan, in [LINK: http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/islands_part2.html] Offscreen Journ