KingBritt
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Professor @UCSDmusic | Sonic Artist | Visionary
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Wise suggestion: Archive your favorite videos, articles, photos from the web by any means. Make PDFs, download what you can, because over the next few years many things will start to disappear. Many resources will disappear. These will be the archives the world will need next. ❤️
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(*album covers that look exactly like the album sounds)
(*album covers that look exactly like the album sounds)
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Rest in Power to one of the greatest to ever do it…. A selfless soul and responsible for some of the most important moments in the history of Black excellence in music as an artist, mentor, collaborator and giant…. Here are a few moments from his time in
@blacktronika
(cont)
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To all my producer friends, you don't 'need' the newest update, gear and whatever. Use what you have to the most. This xmas save your money & make the art. Giving these companies too much energy.
#LetsMakeSmartArt
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For all my artists out there....feedback / thoughts / share ❤️
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I hope independent music makers will all sell there music first, then decide if they will stream later. There are no rules.
I’m going to do full releases for sale but only stream select tracks. A Bandcamp version and Spotify / Tidal version.
Using streaming as marketing.
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This is one of the funniest things I've seen in this election 😂😂
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Ok. Let’s keep the party going. What are your favorite 3 Basslines?
I’ll start:
1.- Cocomotion - El Coco
2.- Heaven - Change
3.- Cavern - Liquid Liquid
❤️🔥
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My love and admiration for Ryuichi Sakamoto goes beyond this world.
Here is a playlist of my favorite moments 🕊💜🕊
Rest in Power
@blacktronika
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This thread below is heavy for all music artists.
We as artists must take the power back, but it’s going to take a collective conscious effort.
Many of us have already started by only placing a partial albums on streaming & full on Bandcamp.
Normalize supporting artists again!
so, big surprise, Spotify has been doing some shady shit. spoilers: things are going in an *even more* artist-unfriendly direction.
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Honored to have worked with such the legend.
Rest In Power Dave (Trugoy)
🕊💜🕊
Condolences to his family and of course Pos and Maseo
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Rest in power
Lee Scratch Perry 👑👑👑👑
Your sonic innovation changed music forever🙏🏽🌟
#blacktronika
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What’s album that you heard at 15 and changed your brain chemistry ?
❤️
What’s album that you heard at 15 and changed your brain chemistry ?
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After many startling convos w/ friends I am here to say:
Any festival or club that base their bookings on analytics, is lazy & detrimental to the future of the arts. You are letting algorithms dictate curatorial taste & the advancement of cultural creativity.
#KingBrittArchives
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what’s an album you fell in love with instantly on first listen?
what’s an album you fell in love with instantly on first listen?
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One important tool I have used over the years is an app called Pocket. Any article or link you see online you can just save here and revisit later when you have time. It’s streamlined my time and help organize links in a way bookmarks don’t …
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Producers: name some radical eq and filter ideas. One that changed the game was what I call the
@PeteRock
era, where you had sample w/ all hi end filtered out on one pad & all low end filtered out on another, alternating / layering for verse-chorus. This changed hip hop
Others?
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Producers: Something I started to return to recently is subtractive mixing. The art of taking away instead of adding. The goes for elements as well as effects and shaping sound. De-clutter your sound.
#KingThings
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Best documentary on Netflix
John Was Trying To Contact Aliens
A must especially for musicians
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Euphoria’s music supervision deserve the highest accolades. What an episode ….wow!
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20yrs ago one of my favorite projects dropped featuring
@madlib
(as Lord Quas),
@Bahamadia
(the greatest), Dice Raw (
@theroots
),
@IvanaSantilli
, Cherrywine (Ish from
@digableplanets
), including a remix of Sylk130 collab w/ Pos & Trugoy (
@WeAreDeLaSoul
) and many more.
@bbemusic
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This quote by Ralf from Kraftwerk really made me think on a deeper level about the importance of mono not only in this context but socio-politically.
In my class we always discuss the importance of hearing your mixes in mono & many students take stereo devices for granted (cont)
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So now that vinyl is back in the eyes of pop culture and it’s sales, can we get a vinyl emoji
@apple
Who’s in agreement.
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Ok what’s your favorite slow jam?
I’ll start :
In The Rain - The Dramatics
Moments in Love - Art of Noise
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So happy to start 2nd quarter of Blacktronika : Afrofuturism in Electronic Music at
@ucsdmusic
Starting Wednesday w/ Marshall Allen from
@SunRaUniverse
Last quarter was mindblowing ...follow thread for a few highlights
#Blacktronika
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This record never left my box when playing vinyl. It feels good to put it back in. Believe by Fierce Ruling Diva is one of the best records to bridge house to techno within a set. What records do you love as transitions between genres?
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Had a dream last night that Kraftwerk covered Teddy Pendergrass’ Joy. I hear it so clearly! 🦂
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Much love to brother
@herbiehancock
for blessing our
@blacktronika
class today 🙌🏾❤️🔥
#mwandishi
#headhunters
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Rest in Power Andrew Weatherall. First to play E-Culture (
@kingbritt
/
@joshwink
) at Hacienda & one main reason for pursuing music full time in ‘90.
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Ok I know this will cause some riffs but needs to be discussed in depth. Disco as we know it started w/ the Philly sound of Thom Bell & Gamble & Huff. The use of moonlighting Phila Orchestra players combined with the driving rhythm section created the blueprint ...(cont)
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Would like to take a minute to give love to one of the greatest techno anthems that changed my ears. Stella by Jam & Spoon.
A masterpiece of electronic magic.
Play loud and close your eyes.
⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Artists, if you’re going to livestream, don’t devalue the artform by doing it in your pajamas. It’s a performance to not be taken as a hobby. Some may get used to that. 🤷🏾♂️
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My first solo piano album drops Friday
@Bandcamp
only. In three movements. I hope you can find a bit of piece within the space they create.
On my Buddy System label.
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Made it to Zanzibar during full Scorpio moon.
Detaching from the net to write my first book …. May the ancestors guide my pen. ⚡️✊🏾⚡️
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So funny, some of my students couldn’t believe I carried a bag a vinyl to play last night, until they felt that warmth. Frequencies.
So glad they were excited cause sh*t is heavy yo. Hahaha.
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Studio in the winter is my fave time ...
@moogmusicinc
Mother 32 &
@AiraRoland
MX1 TR8 ...
@themartinezbros
@Cassy__official
@NinaKraviz
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Today’s Blacktronika class with Roni Size, Gilles Peterson, Bahamadia & Vikter Duplaix was one for the history books!
📚🙏🏽📚
@ucsdmusic
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Head Over Heels by
@tearsforfears
will always be a sing at the top of your lungs tune. A perfect pop song in every sense. The second verse which actually has two vocal lines interwoven is pure genius.
Not to mention the video haha. Brilliant ….
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As I prep for my lecture and interview with
@mastersatwork_1
@LouieVeganyc
@Kdope50
I am almost in tears of joy at the magnitude of their amazing work and how much it influenced me. What are your favorite MAW moments.
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Rest in Power sir ….❤️🔥💐
In our very first Blacktronika interview almost a year ago, we were honored to have cultural icon, writer & musician, Greg Tate, as one of our first guests.
In this clip, we asked how he felt when first hearing the word AfroFuturism.
#Blacktronika
#Afrofuturism
@ucsdmusic
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I always smile when 808 State - Pacific (909 Remix) comes on. This mix cleverly samples Miles Davis from the score of the movie Siesta starring Grace Jones.
I smile because it takes me back to the moment I discovered the sample and as usual screamed very loud, “ohhhh sh*t!”
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Tell the ones you love, you love them ....tomorrow is never promised.
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I’m so glad I was able to teach my students about funk queen Betty Davis while she was still here. Also if it wasn’t for her Miles may not have done Kilimanjaro and entered the ‘Electric Years’
Rest in Power to this musical icon
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The
@moogmusicinc
Subharmonicon and Matriarch are match made in the cosmos
🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
<headphones>
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One of the most important characters on
@HouseofCards
is not seen
@JBealMusic
...appreciate the delicate score.
#composertocomposer
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I love doing a club night for my students. Completely open to all genres. Constantly Shazamming & curious. The best part is playing some of the bangers they are releasing. To hear their own music next to a Terry Hunter or Flylo track puts their dreams in context of reality. 👊🏾⚡️
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I’m putting this out in the universe right now. I want to score
@BarryJenkins
sci fi film. Imagine the Fhloston Paradigm sound w/ his vision. Let’s go Barry.
#Philly
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I have no words.....love goes out to my brother
@Ras_G
.... I know you and ‘Ra will continue to guide us ... 💔
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@TonyaPendleton
One of the most important albums that will define a very important moment for blackness….a timeless project
A Seat At The Table - Solange
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There are only a few records I call perfect ….and Star of the Story - Heatwave is one of them.
Eternally cosmic
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Why are so many Uber drivers embarrassed about their music from a different country…. I want to hear new things. Be proud of it!
Then they are surprised when I know music from their region 😂😂😂😂
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7 Albums to Know Me
1.- Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
2.- Secret Life of Plants - Stevie Wonder
3.- Re-Member’s Only - Sylk130
4.- Cupid & Psyche 85 - Scritti Politti
5.- Dots & Loops - Stereolab
6.- Disco3000 - Sun Ra
7.- Los Angeles - Flying Lotus
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When this dropped in 2000, the whole way I approach doing music production changed. New Sector Movements - No Tricks EP ….IG Culture is one of the greatest to ever do it.
This ep sent everyone back to the studio the same way Timbo & Missy did … seek n find.
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This project by Sakamoto & Alva Noto is so beautiful to watch.
Pure meditation.
🕊💜🕊
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Wrote a piece on the everlasting effects that
@herbiehancock
Mwandishi has had on my life in the new
@thewiremagazine
... Epiphanies 🌟 (shout out to SunRa)
#blacktronika
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Major props to James Blake for featuring the legendary Ragga Twins, original UK rave culture. Homage to Jamaican low end…. What if Windrush hadn’t happened. Where would music have gone…
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I’m at a loss for words. A legend, a friend.... rest in power Phil Asher
♥️
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When the music is so bad at a restaurant that you ask for a to go container. I can’t take it 🤦🏾♂️
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Most popular pop synth line: Jump (Van Halen) or Axel F (Harold Faltermeyer) ?
(Take on me - A-Ha honorable mention).
Any others?
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Today listen to an Amp album….spread love and open your hearts
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Happy bday to Peter Gabriel, one of the earliest adapters of sampling. Love showing my students early clips w/ the Fairlight like this one.
Peter, Art of Noise, Kate Bush & Herbie Hancock had the means & the mind to explore ...later of course Marley Marl would push it farther.
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The past few weeks I’ve really been breaking down all of Motown’s recording techniques, which is amazing given the limited equipment but truly shows the importance of mic’ing & performance professionalism.
Anyway, I always took the Moog on Reflections (Diana Ross) for granted.
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If you were to create a super trio who would they be (living or dead)?
I’ll start:
Aneesa Al-Musawwir (upright bass vocals)
Herbie Hancock (electronics)
Jaki Liebezeit (drums)
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