Clubfriends Radio & Record Launches Weeklong Conversation Series with King Britt at Meantime on Market
Series includes daily lunch-hour dialogues with Philadelphia electronic music legend King Britt and Collaborators coinciding with performance series presented by Clubfriends and Art Philly
WHAT: A free daily conversation series hosted at Clubfriends, held each day at noon during Art Philly 2026. King Britt — producer, DJ, and UC San Diego professor — joins the artists behind each evening's performance for live dialogue about the previous night's show, the decades of Philadelphia music history it draws from, and what it all means for the city today.
The conversations are an extension of Blacktronika: Philadelphia Now and Then — a weeklong series of free performances commissioned by Art Philly as part of the What Now: 2026 Festival, with lead support from the William Penn Foundation.
King Britt's course Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music began as a celebration of the contributions of innovators of color to electronic music and has grown into a festival with events in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Knoxville, Paris, and beyond. This June, it comes home — with seven nights across six Philadelphia venues honoring the parties, scenes, and artists that shaped the city's sound.
Philadelphia has built something in electronic music, hip hop, and the spaces where those worlds meet — a lineage that has too often gone untold. These conversations at Clubfriends extend the performances into open dialogue: not panels, not lectures, but intimate exchanges about where this music came from, who made it, and what it means for Philadelphia's place as a global cultural destination.
All conversations will be recorded and are open to the public - RSVP here as space is limited.
CONVERSATION SCHEDULE:
- Tuesday, June 23 — Opening Conversation with King Britt (noon) Evening show: Tastytreats hosted by Flygirrl and Yameen Allworld with DJ Mike Nyce and surprise guests at Margolis, 9 PM
- Wednesday, June 24 — King Britt with Stacey "Flygirrl" Wilson and DJ Mike Nyce (noon) Evening show: Honoring Dexter Wansel at Johnny Brenda's, 9 PM
- Thursday, June 25 — King Britt with Dyana Williams (noon) Evening show: Beat Society at Johnny Brenda's, 9 PM
- Friday, June 26 — King Britt with Hezekiah (noon) Evening show: Rockers hosted by Moor Mother at Ars Nova Workshop, 9 PM
- Saturday, June 27 — King Britt with Moor Mother (noon); Evening show: Illvibe Collective at Kung Fu Necktie, 10 PM
- Sunday, June 28 — King Britt with Illvibe Collective (noon); Evening show: Black Lily Tribute with Tracey Moore at Silk City, 9 PM
- Monday, June 29 — King Britt with Tracey Moore (noon); Evening show: King Britt and Back2Basics at Silk City, 9 PM
- Tuesday, June 30 — Closing Conversation with King Britt (noon)
All conversations at noon at Clubfriends, Meantime on Market, 900 block of Market Street, Philadelphia.
WHO:
King Britt is a Philadelphia-born producer, DJ, and educator whose career spans decades at the intersection of electronic music, hip hop, and neo soul. A professor at UC San Diego, he has carried Philadelphia's music culture to stages and institutions around the world. His project Blacktronika documents and celebrates the history of Black electronic music — and insists on its present tense.
Clubfriends is a living room turned record store, curated by lived experience. Based at Meantime on Market on the 900 block of Market Street, Clubfriends explores the moments that move us — on and off the dance floor, beyond nightlife, in conversation, and in a substance-free environment. It made its public debut at the DesignPhiladelphia Festival before finding its home at Meantime, where it operates as both archive and gathering place. Clubfriends is built on the belief that music is infrastructure — the way we navigate the world, hold community, and transmit lived experience. It is not only a record of one person's story, but a collective story of Philadelphia shaped by the people who move through it.
Art Philly is Philadelphia's premier contemporary art fair, presenting gallery exhibitions, artist projects, and public programming that position Philadelphia as a destination for contemporary art. For 2026, Art Philly invited King Britt to curate Blacktronika: Philadelphia Now and Then — a week-long series of free performances across 6 venues featuring local artists and collaborators from across King's decades as a Philadelphia musician and global ambassador. The Clubfriends conversation series is an extension of that programming, bringing the stories behind the performances into open public dialogue.
ARTISTS:
- Stacey "Flygirrl" Wilson is a Philadelphia Creative Ambassador, event producer, graphic designer, and muralist with more than 25 years in the city's creative and nightlife industries. She is co-producer of the legendary party Tastytreats — the longest-running party in Philadelphia — alongside Questlove from The Roots, and has worked with Prince, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Q-Tip, Jill Scott, and many more.
- DJ Mike Nyce is a Philadelphia-based DJ and producer who has been rocking crowds for 20+ years. A key figure behind Tastytreats, he is known for sharing sets with Jazzy Jeff, Cash Money, and Q-Tip, and is an instructor at Scratch DJ Academy Philadelphia.
- Dyana Williams is one of the most important figures in the history of Black American radio. After moving to Philadelphia in 1980, she joined 105.3 WDAS-FM, where she launched the show "Love's on the Menu" and became a fixture on the station for nearly a decade. She co-founded Black Music Month alongside radio DJ Ed Wright and Kenny Gamble, and executed the lobby campaign to pass House Concurrent Bill 509 — the White House proclamation that established June as African American Music Appreciation Month. As CEO of Influence Entertainment, her coaching client list has included Rihanna, Jill Scott, ASAP Rocky, and Usher.
- Hezekiah (Hezekiah Davis III) is a West Philadelphia rapper, producer, songwriter, and co-founder of Beat Society — a legendary live beat event that in the early 2000s played host to then-up-and-coming producers including Kanye West and Illmind, with a young Diplo serving as in-house DJ. His production credits include Bilal, Kindred the Family Soul, Bahamadia, and Zap Mama.
- Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa) is a Philadelphia-based musician, poet, visual artist, and professor of composition at USC's Thornton School of Music. She is co-founder of Rockers! Philly, an event series focused on marginalized artists, and Black Quantum Futurism Collective. Her work has been featured at the Guggenheim, The Met, Carnegie Hall, Documenta 15, the Berlin Jazz Festival, and Glastonbury.
- Illvibe Collective is a Philadelphia DJ and production crew founded in 1999. With combined experience dating back to the late 1980s, their style is rooted in hip hop and draws from funk, soul, broken beat, electro, house, rock, Afrobeat, and bossa nova. They are the longtime hosts of BodyRock, one of Philadelphia's most enduring dance parties.
- Tracey Moore is a Philadelphia musician, filmmaker, and co-founder of Black Lily — a live hip-hop jam session that began in Questlove's basement and became one of the most important performance spaces in Philadelphia music history. Black Lily ran as a weekly showcase at The Five Spot from 2000 to 2005 and introduced Philadelphia and the world to artists including Jill Scott, Jaguar Wright, and Floetry.
All conversations are free and open to the public [RSVP HERE TO ATTEND]. Full recordings will be available.