Beats People Movement

View the full album here. Thanks to Charlie Kim @ Snapstar.

View the full album here. Thanks to Charlie Kim @ Snapstar.

View the full album here. Thanks to Charlie Kim @ Snapstar.

View the full album here. Thanks to Charlie Kim @ Snapstar.

View the full album here. Thanks to Charlie Kim @ Snapstar.

Friday drinks at BPM HQ starts with 42 Below Vodka cocktails. We used Phoenix Organic Cola and Bundaberg Lemon Lime & Bitters. Australasia ting !

KIWI LIBRE

30 mls of 42BELOW Kiwifruit

15 mls of Lime Juice

3 Lime wedge

1 dash of Bitters

0 Cola

Method:

Glass:
Highball

Method:
In a Highball glass, muddle the lime wedges, and fill with ice. Add juice, bitters and 42BELOW Kiwifruit, and top with cola.

Thanks to Charlie Kim at SnapStar. Check the rest of the album here.

 Hip-hop experimentalist Flying Lotus will release his third album, Cosmogramma, this spring on Warp Records.

It will be the LA producer’s first full-length since Los Angeles, the strange and brilliant post-hip-hop record that took the music world by surprise upon its release in summer of 2008. The album received top ratings here at Resident Advisor and gushing accolades from Pitchfork, Spin and Mary Anne Hobbs, who went so far as to call Flying Lotus “the Hendrix of his generation.”

Riding the success of his previous album, Flying Lotus managed to nail down some very interesting collaborators for Cosmogramma—most notably, Thom Yorke of Radiohead, who sings on the track “…And The World Laughs With You.” As the nephew of Alice Coltrane, FlyLo has also managed to recruit a few acclaimed jazz and classical musicians, including former Suicidal Tendencies bassist Stephen “Thundercat” Bruno and harp virtuoso Rebekah Raff, who appeared previously with Flying Lotus on the track “Auntie’s Harp.”

Musically, Cosmogramma shows Flying Lotus further perfecting his trippy and syncopated style of electronic beats. In an interview with Pitchfork Media, he said: “I’m finally getting to the point where I can make the kind of records that I want to make—that I wanted to make when I was younger, things that I dreamed about making. It’s this fusion-y kind of thing where all the elements of the music that I love are there.”

Tracklist
01. Clock Catcher
02. Pickled!
03. Nose Art
04. Intro//A Cosmic Drama
05. Zodiac Shit
06. Computer Face//Pure Being
07. ..And The World Laughs With You ft. Thom Yorke
08. Arkestry
09. Mmmhmm ft.Thundercat
10. Do The Astral Plane
11. Satelllliiiiiteee
12. German Haircut
13. Recoiled
14. Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph
15. Drips//Auntie’s Harp
16. Table Tennis ft. Laura Darlington
17. Galaxy In Janaki

Warp Records will release Flying Lotus’s Cosmogramma on April 30th, 2010.

Source: Resident Advisor

WARP195
Released 3/4th May 2010

- LIMITED FIRST EDITION PRINT CD W/ FOIL BLOCK SLIPCASE -
- 2 x LP DOUBLE GATEFOLD VINYL WITH VELUM INNER SLEEVES -

Listen to clips here: http://warp.net/records/flying-lotus/

Download 3 recent *non album* tracks here

In support of this album’s release Flying Lotus is rumored to be touring his new live Audio Visual showcase through Australia and New Zealand later in 2010.

… and it’s not because the drivers are “on strike”.

I’ve had to correct a few people on this point over the past few days. Seems the mainstream media in NZ aren’t doing their job.

Here’s a summary:

• The drivers start on $14.05 an hour, significantly less than drivers at other Auckland bus companies get.
• The drivers are seeking an increase of 6.8 percent this year, taking the starting wage from $14.05 to $15 an hour.
• Presently, the pay rate climbs to $15.30 after three months employment before peaking at $16.75 after nine months.
• In response to not being offered a fair deal,the workers have said that they will ‘work-to-rule’ Ie. Work to the letter of their contracts – no more free overtime or skipped health and safety procedures.
• The situation is therefore by definition a lockout not a strike.
• The driver’s contracts state they should have regular toilet and exercise breaks and not drive buses that aren’t running 100%. These are the aspects of their contracts they are being advised to follow (by their union representatives).
• The cited reason for Infratil / NZ Bus’ hard line on this is it’s promise to shareholders.. “Infratil’s goal is a 20% per annum [net] return to shareholders over the long term.”
• NZ Bus said that passenger numbers in Auckland were up 6.9 per cent in the year to July.
• Infratil’s operating revenue was up 28 per cent, and public transport use in Auckland was at a 25-year high.
• NZ Bus and companies like it receive government subsidies to operate travel services.
• Meanwhile it’s Aucklanders that deal with finding alternative travel, increased congestion on the roads and scarcer parking in Auckland’s CBD.

The Beats People Movement crew are busy working on a new project set to launch in May. For this reason we are taking a short break from promoting our regular club nights and international DJ tours. Plenty of hard work is going in to this one, everyone involved is looking forward to the big launch in a few weeks time..