Fresh from their release on John Digweed's Bedrock
Records under their more covert Techno guise
'Cypherpunx' the Brighton based duo Flip Fantazia
unleash their debut album 'The Trip'.
Touching on influences from Air to Bonobo, The xx
to DJ Shadow, 'The Trip' guides you down a road
less travelled meandering through Downtempo,
Electronica & Trip Hop with a few Jazzy twists &
turns.
Essentially Flip Fantazia is a meeting of two minds,
four hands, several synths, quite a few guitars,
some very clever computer software with a variety
of drum machines. The prolific duo spend most of
their time writing, recording, producing, mixing &
mastering original music down in an old bank vault
in Brighton... well, Hove actually! Their real names...
Douglas Horner & Tim Belcher.
Born from a project focussed mainly on music for
Sync, writing for Ninja Tune PM, Cavendish Music,
Delimusic, BMG PM & Deep East + more this is their
first artist album to be commercially released.
Their first brief for Ninja Tune's Production Music
company was to create an authentic 60s sounding
Samba song and a Boogaloo / Salsa, both of which
appear on the Ninja Tune Latin Excursions album.
Along with a contemporary breaks / glitch remix of
the classical masterpiece Flight Of The Bumblebee
and a piece of funk with a foodie flavour for two
other Ninja Tune production music albums. Another
brief came in for some Australian influenced Beach
House from delimusic to be used on the BBC
Commonwealth Games Gold Coast 2018 coverage,
so out came the Didgeridoo and five new tracks
were born. Writing to brief is a delight & an
adventure for Flip Fantazia covering many genres
from authentic Samba to electro disco new-wave
post modern cosmic soul funk afro-boogie punk
alt+indie dance crossover and everything in
between! So it was tough to narrow The Trip down
to 10 original tracks which best illustrate the
authentic Flip Fantazia sound.