Sounds like the smooth glissando of a harp, a metallic cough, the hollow echo of a bouncing ping pong ball. Complex melodic, harmonic and rhythmic elements fit together as easily and smoothly as the layers of a wedding cake. Final song, “Galaxy Into Janaki,” conveys ambition and commitment found rarely anywhere in music.

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Our dublab friends are holding their fall dinner fundraiser. We’ll be there to support them, and so should you! TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST “CREATIVE CULTIVATION: dublab’s fall fundraiser dinner” Now is your chance to become actively involved in dublab’s mission of sharing progressive music, arts and culture with the world! Help us energize the universe and [...]

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In what musta been an impassioned twittering with plenty of muttered curse words, Flying Lotus asks the collective world of journalists to cease and desist making up weird genres. What can they do, FlyLo? It’s hard to talk about your music. But we agree that “aquacrunk” sounds like a deodorant for rappers. From this point [...]

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Our dublab friends are holding their fall dinner fundraiser. We’ll be there to support them, and so should you! TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST “CREATIVE CULTIVATION: dublab’s fall fundraiser dinner” Now is your chance to become actively involved in dublab’s mission of sharing progressive music, arts and culture with the world! Help us energize the universe and [...]

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This is more like acid. “MMM-HMM” by Flying Lotus, with special guest Thundercat, and the song’s video are like eating fudge barefoot on acid. Get Cosmogramma from Warp Records. —Georgia Dorge

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UPDATE: As reported by L.A. TIMES, HARD L.A. is canceled! More details here… Summer will be high in the sky as the luminaries of the hip hop, electro and indie rock worlds join forces under the HARD LA banner this July 17th. Here are some highlights from the upcoming festival: Sleigh Bells has even the [...]

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photography by Melissa Moore If you were in the vicinity of Echo Park on Saturday night, May 15th, you’d have noticed that the local bars and eateries surrounding the The Echoplex were filled to the brim with those turned away from the highly anticipate and sold out Flying Lotus show. And for good reason, with [...]

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Flying Lotus and the Infinity was like a team of jazz super heroes. The 10 member ensemble created a force that could save the world with its amazing sound. Their onstage chemistry at the Echoplex should be a blueprint for others to follow. —Chris Sanchez

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Via: L.A. Times In October 2008, while Steven Ellison’s mother lay dying in a hospital bed, he was at her side recording her. The young L.A.-based musician, who records abstract electronic music as Flying Lotus, hadn’t been especially close to his mother until her later years. But when finally faced with the weight of the [...]

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