Running time: 1hr 06mins
Date: 26/03/2012
01. Dialog from 1984
02. Lowleaf - Tala At Twilight
03. Fhloston Paradigm - Live Interlude #1
04. Chemical Brothers - Escape Wavefold (from Hanna soundtrack)
05. Boom Boom Satellites - Dub Me Crazy
06. Tenko - Slope - Gradual Disappearance
07. Eurhythmics - Take Me To Your Heart
08. Blade Runner dialog (rain scene)
09. Sleepy Tea - Specta Cierra
10. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Microon III
11. Fhloston Paradigm - Live Interlude #3
12. Fhloston Paradigm - The Chase
13. JJ Doom - Banished
14. Power Douglas - Little Gong
15. Jerry Goldsmith - Intensive Care (From Logan’s Run soundtrack)
16. Raymond Scott - Portofino
17. Paul McCartney - Blue Sway (Demo)
18. Fhloston Paradigm - Song For Charlie
19. Synergy - The Mystery of Peri Reis
20. Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Frag 2
21. David Sylvian - Answered Prayers / Carla Bley (dialog)
22. King Britt presents Scuba - Bare Naked feat. Imani Uzuri
23. Fhloston Paradigm - Live Interlude #3
The King Britt Presents Fhloston Paradigm EP is released on Hyperdub this week. This project – which has evolved across three digital-only releases, Charlie Sleeps EP (2009), Fiction Science (2011) and After The Rave (2011) – is an outlet for Britt to explore his fascination with the science fiction movies and TV series of his youth, creating imaginary soundtracks on entirely analogue gear – mainly Roland DR110, Korg Mono/Poly, Kork MS20, Roland JX3P, Moog Sonic 6 and SQ1 sequencer.
“This process forces me to think differently,” Britt recently told FACT, “much like when I started out in the 80s, about arrangement and rhythm. The sound is also all analogue which is what was used in all the science fiction films. So naturally the music leans toward that vibe.
“I mean as kids, we all loved sci-fi. Star Trek, Flash Gordon, Ultraman, Johnny Socko and then Star Wars changed the game. So it’s in our psyche, our DNA. When I play a Moog or any analog keyboard, I think automatically of those movies. It’s just in my genes!”
Philadelphia native Britt first troubled the world of electronic music in 1987, when he worked as singles/import buyer at his local Tower Records. While at Temple University he honed his DJ skills, taking up residencies at Philly’s Silky City and Revival in 1990, and also began producing music with his friend Josh Wink, leading to the release of ‘Tribal Confusion’ on Strictly Rhythm.
Britt toured with hip-hop collective Digable Planets, before co-founding – with Wink - Ovum Recordings in ’94. He quit Ovum in 2001, but remains responsible for some of its most important signings and releases, including a hit collaboration with Ursula Rucker, ‘Supernatural’, and some classic deep house-leaning 12?s under his Scuba alias. Adopting the name Sylk130, Britt created some of the most popular music of his career in the shape of neo-soul LP When The Funk Hits The Fan (1998), and was able to call upon such guests as Martin Fry, Alison Moyet, Grover Washington, Jr. and Kathy Sledge for the 2001 follow-up, Remember’s Only.
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