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AFROFUTURISM IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC
– curated by King Britt
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Le temps d’un week-end, le DJ, producteur et universitaire américain, King Britt, légende des musiques électroniques et du hip-hop, proposera au festival Sons d’hiver 2025, des créations et des rencontres inédites au carrefour d’esthétiques très variées, à l’image de son parcours. De ses débuts à Philadelphie à ses recherches sur la place déterminante des afro-américains dans l’histoire des musiques électroniques, en passant par ses remixes et albums concepts, King Britt s’est toujours tenu aux avant-postes de la modernité. Son génie réside aussi dans sa capacité à fédérer autour de ses projets des artistes d’horizons divers. Voici qulques morceaux emblématiques choisis par ceux-ci.
For one wonderful week-end, American deejay, producer, and professor King Britt, a legend of electronica and hip-hop, will emcee premiere performances and first-time encounters at the intersection of greatly varying aesthetics that reflect his own journey. From his early days on the Philadelphia dance music scene to his current research on the ground-breaking role of people of color in the history of electronic music, with a nod to his remixes and album concepts, King Britt has always moved at the cutting edge of modernity. His genius also dwells in his ability to collaborate artists from a variety of horizons on his projects.
playlist d’artistes
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Walking on the Moon — Sun Ra
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown — Augustus Pablo
Superwoman — Stevie Wonder
midnightROBA
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Ansak — Om Kalsoum
Higher Ground — Doug Carn
Moon Dreams — Flora Purim
Christina Wheeler
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Golden Lady — Stevie Wonder
I Know You, I Live You — Chaka Khan
On a Country Road — John Carter
Infant Eyes — Wayne Shorter
MISS TAHLOULAH MAY
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Time Space Transmat — Model 500
Bassism — Sun Ra
Halcyon and on and on — Orbital
ALLISON LOGGINS-HULL
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All Along the Watchtower — Jimi Hendrix
Rite of Spring — Hubert Laws
Cello concerto no. 1 — Dmitri Shostakovich
CHINA MOSES
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Message In The Music — Patrice Rushen
This Bitter Earth — Dinah Washington
Manchild — Neneh Cherry
ANTHONY TIDD
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I Am the Black Gold of the Sun — Rotary Connection
Elegant People — Weather Report
And the Melody Still Lingers On (Night in Tunisia)
— Chaka Khan
JONNY STALLINGS CàRDENAS
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Pharoah’s Dance — Miles Davis
Brainville — Sun Ra
Rain Dance — Herbie Hancock
YAW EVANS
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Archangel — Burial
Hyph Mngo — Joy Orbison
Anasickmodular — Floating Points
CHARLIE DARK
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Exodus — Bob Marley and the Wailers
Fight The Power — Public Enemy
Love Supreme — John Coltrane