If someone asked me what Flying Lotus sounds like, I would say head jams. Intense, precise, ambient, organic, electronic, beat-filled, groove-laden, mind-altering head jams.
Having criminally left his Los Angeles album on a pile for the last 6 weeks, I finally got around to giving it a proper spin. I loved his debut 1983 and the Reset EP from last year but this is on a whole other level. Where those releases were largely hip-hip rhythms, Los Angeles blurs the line between hip-hop, ambient, electronic and dubstep beats probably more suitably describe as soundscapes. But intense, precise, ambient, organic, electronic, beat-filled, groove-laden, mind-altering soundscapes, see?
Update: No sooner than I post this, do I receive a link to a Flying Lotus re-work of… you guessed it! ‘A’ Milli by Lil Wayne. News also reaches of LA EPs 1 + 2 + 3 dropping in August, featuring new non-album tracks, very special collaborations, and remixes.
Flying Lotus – Robo-Tussin feat. Lil Wayne (zShare link)
It’s no surprise that he did a Rinse FM mix with Kode 9 last year I suppose? For more on Flying Lotus’ background see this Wikipedia page. More tunes on Egoeccentric.
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
I will totally be checking this out- both because of your recommendation and because holyshiti’mmovingtola!
Yes, Two my favorite new gen artists, Flying Lotus and Fleet Foxes, both of them are very very close to me, absolutly adore both of them….
Ye the album is fantastic, the fact that he’s playing mantu fest is even better!
I thought this might happen.
Aero, he cancelled all his european dates so he’s not playing Mantua now. Various Productions are his replacement.
Flying Lotus is pure heat. You talk of the three EP’s being released in August, but hasn’t the first already been released?
http://warpmart.com/item/view/3739 (?)
lotus always does it right. he sounds like he lives in an opium den. lol. gotta love it though. that ‘bossy’ remix is still one of my favs. -n [rt]