Flying Lotus playing NZ in Jan + Essential Mix

Experimental producer and live laptop musician Flying Lotus is playing a confirmed NZ show in Wellington on January 7th at Sandwiches. There is also talk of a possible Auckland show the following night, big!
For now here’s a little background on the man they call “FlyLo”..
Flying Lotus, (born Steven Ellison) is an experimental music producer, DJ, and laptop musician from Winnetka, California. His debut album, 1983, was released on Plug Research Records in 2006. He is most famous (yet also uncredited) for the music in many of the segues of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, and he has also contributed remixes to fellow Plug Research artists, including Mia Doi Todd. Tracing a distinctly Jazz heritage, Flying Lotus is the great-nephew of Alice Coltrane and a cousin of Ravi Coltrane.
He signed to Warp Records in 2007, and, following his Warp-debut - the six track Reset EP - released his second album titled Los Angeles on June 10th, 2008.
With comparisons made to DJ Shadow, Madlib and more often J Dilla and similarities to the wonky Dubstep-esque beats of Scottish producer Rustie or Hyperdub label boss Kode9. Flying Lotus is essentially a producer of future beats. Add to this the live element and its a foregone conclusion that anyone who is interested in electronic music in general needs to know what this guy is up to. Official remix work spanning just the past few months has seen him collaborating with the likes of Lil Wayne as well as Martyn and King Midas Sound. Likewise his beats have recieved the remix treatment from Ras G as well as Japan-based Dubstep producer Quarta330. Taking in so many of the styles we love the BPM family are definitely amped to have the one like FlyLo visiting our shores this summer!
A few quotes:
“There are moments of absolute brilliance spread across this long awaited 17 track album, and its those tracks that refuse to settle comfortably into any recognisable genre that give credence to the assertion that Steven Ellison is one of the most gifted and interesting producers operating in hip hop at the tail end of the noughties. […] Flying lotus joins the dots between the lo-slung loop edits of J Dilla, the low-end ruffage of some of the most interesting dubstep/2-step producers, and the de-tuned, frayed sounds of old pirate radio cassettes that are so worn out they’re starting to lose pitch. At it’s best, the album marries an aesthetically open mind with ridiculously impressive production savvy..”
“..showcasing the unsteady breaks and choppy noises that are leading people such as Portishead’s Geoff Barrow to mention his name in the same sentence as Public Enemy, EPMD, Marley Marl and Madlib.”
“As he played, Ellison bobbed furiously, with an enormous smile on his face, twisting knobs but looking as if he wanted to dance as much as physically possible without abandoning his equipment. The set segued into his own gentle, loopy remix of Lil Wayne’s ubiquitous “A Milli” and then settled into several brutish, heavy tracks from the dubstep genre—rough-cut slabs of bass and drums that bully the listener into dancing. Then Ellison guided the music back through more rapping, and ended with the susurration of the Radiohead remix. At no point did Ellison feel compelled to make sense. At no point did the crowd stop dancing.”
Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker Magazine.
Links:
http://www.flying-lotus.com/
http://www.myspace.com/flyinglotus
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Flying+Lotus
L.A. EP available for purchase on Bleep
L.A. EP available for purchase on iTunes
Free Kayne West Remix here.
Click through for the recent Essential Mix tracklisting and download link.
Flying Lotus Essential Mix Broadcast Saturday 29th November on BBC Radio.
- Alice Coltrane - Galaxy In Turiya
- Charlie Hayden and Egberto Gisomonti and Gonjasufi - Testament
- Flying Lotus - Massage Situation (Stripped)
- Dimlite - Sun Sized Twinkles
- Flying Lotus feat Dolly - Robertaflack
- Flying Lotus - Robertaflack (Mike Slott Reflunk)
- Ahu - I Know All The Bitches (Bullion mix)
- Heralds Of Change - Amuse
- Carlos Y Gaby - Happy Summer Solstice
- Pudge - Yung Infamous
- Dorothy Ashby - Myself When Young
- Nosaj Thing - Bach
- LL - Turf Day
- Flying Lotus - Infinitum (Dimlite mix)
- Clark - Springtime Epigram
- Burial - Shutta
- Blank Blue - Blank Blue (Flying Lotus mix)
- Daedelus - Im String Struck
- MHE - ?
- Daedelus and Madvillain - Experience/Accordion (Flying Lotus live mix)
- Hudson Mohawke - Zoo0000oom
- Rustie - Black Block (remix)
- Teebs and Jackhigh - Idea 1 (Clutch)
- Matthewdavid - Tallahassee Tapes
- Martyn and Flying Lotus - Vancouver/Pet Monster Shotglass
- Fulgeance - Chico (Dorian Concept mix)
- Joker - Solid State
- Rusko - Moanerz
- Daddy Kev - Invite8
- Ras G - Star Messenger
- Madlib - Unreleased Gem
- SAMIYAM - Cheesecake Backslap
- Knowledge - Dawn
- Flyamsam - Princess Toadstool
- Sa-Ra - Hollywood
- Muhsinah and Flying Lotus - With Me/Melt
- Flying Lotus - Dissecto
- Flying Lotus - Breathe
- Mike Slott - Home
- Flying Lotus - Sangria Spin Cycles (ambient mix)
- Danny Breaks - Cosmic Dust
- Flying Lotus - Beginners Falafel (Free The Robots mix)
- SAMIYAM - Falafel Cannon
- Flying Lotus - Beginners Falafel
- Slum Village - Players (instrumental mix)
- Flying Lotus - Cackle
- Slum Village - Raise It Up
- Osborne - Definition Of A Breakdown
- Baron Zen - Burn Rubber (Dam-Funk mix)
- Mono/Poly - Needsdeodorantbitch
- Chocolate Star and Nelly Furtado - Stay With Me/Promiscuous
- Gonjasufi - Suzie Q
- Kiing Midas - Lost (Flying Lotus live mix)
- Rusko and Flying Lotus - Terminal3 / Tea Leaf (Dancers live mix)
- Daedelus - Hours Minutes Seconds (beat invitational version)
- Kode9 and Flying Lotus - Kryon
- Zomby - Spliff Dub (Rustie mix)
- Busta Rhymes - What Up
- SAMIYAM - Crystal Lake
- Weather Report - River People
- SAMIYAM - Flintstone Car
- Flying Lotus - Backpack Caviar
- Radiohead - Reckoner (Flying Lotus mix)
- Bjork - All Is Full Of Love
- Broadcast - Winter Now
- Portishead - Elysium
- Linda Perhacks - Hey Now Who Really Cares
- Flying Lotus - Infinitum (Exile mix)
- Flying Lotus - Live Set Practice Run
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