As cult UK label Hyperdub celebrates its 10th birthday this summer, even a cursory look back through the years shows up some of the most forward-thinking electronic music of recent times. No hyperbole, honest. In a year where techno provocateur Laurel Halo, the now late footwork legend DJ Rashad, Canadian R&B newcomer Jessy Lanza and conceptual artist Fatima Al Qadiri (to name only a few) have released stellar full lengths, Hyperdub's pedigree of experimentation is Rottweiler-strong. No pressure then for the man behind the next LP from the camp, Fhloston Paradigm.
Though his first release with Hyperdub was his debut EP in 2012, Fhloston Paradigm is only one moniker of King Britt, and you'd need more than a cursory glance to take him in. From DJing in early 90s Philadelphia, King Britt joined legendary hip hop outfit Digable Planets and then spent the next 20 years releasing ambitious slabs of funk and jazz - until finding a new home at Hyperdub with The Phoenix. Inspired by science fiction and Afrofuturism, it's a fascinating, often disorientating journey through the mind of a man who, like his hero Sun Ra, may just be from another space and time.