L.A. RECORD has decided take advantage of a tiny bit of the 50,000 years worth of accumulated creative wisdom floating openly through the city and so we are starting a column where you can send in questions and we will get you answers from the people who made the best records in your collection. Now [...]

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Endless Planets is the 20-year-old’s first album released stateside, and one that more readily recalls jazz history written by Charles Mingus and Max Roach than records spawned in the alternate reality of Madlib’s Yesterdays New Quintet. More often than not, Endless Planets laces up its desert boots and treads the same territory as McCoy Tyner’s Sahara.

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In honor of Low End Theory’s Japan benefit show tomorrow, we are posting VJ/artist/electronic musician Strangeloop’s guide to sci-fi, avant-garde anime and films that feel like DMT trips. He brings the psychedelic visuals that accompany the sonic landscapes of Flying Lotus. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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The great, wise, and good-looking Poobah Record Shop staff formed one mind and here spews forth their Best Albums Of 2010 list. In no particular order: Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid (Bad Boy Records) Drake Thank Me Later (Young Money Entertainment) 1958-2009 II (a cassette on Ekhein) (click image to hear sample) Infinite Body Carve Out [...]

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Download: Ras G “Breakfast Blunts” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (fromAll City L.A. Series No. 3 out now on All City)

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Download: Flying Lotus “Computer Face // Pure Being” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from Cosmogramma out May 4 on Warp) Real news of the day so far: L.A. RECORD alums Flying Lotus and dublab will team up to present a special live radio session on Tuesday, April 20, which will team Lotus and [...]

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Download: Ras G “El Aylien” (Preview) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from El Aylien Part 1 available April 27 from Leaving)

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