Beat Culture & the SP-404
Find out what the SP-404 meant to a community of LA beat makers in Beat Culture & the SP-404.
Find out what the SP-404 meant to a community of LA beat makers in Beat Culture & the SP-404.
Dutch producer Stan Forebee offers up a mellow remix of Flying Lotus’ Siren Song.
Flying Lotus recently dropped the video for his track “Coronus, The Terminator” and it’s not to be missed under any circumstances. I don’t care that we’re only 1/24th of the way through 2015 – this is a contender for video of the year. Flying Lotus delivered one of the best albums of 2014 in “You’re …
DJ Skarface returns with another fine mix, this time blending Deltron 3030’s classic debut with the music of Flying Lotus. You’ll hopefully remember DJ Skarface’s dope MadDILLAiny mix from last year. Well, a few months ago (sorry for the lateness, dude), the ATL-based disc jockey merged the worlds of Deltron 3030 and Flying Lotus in …
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock has been collaborating with Flying Lotus, as he discussed with Time Out Dubai. You’ll hopefully remember when we showed you footage of Herbie Hancock in the studio with Flying Lotus and Thundercat. Even earlier, there were rumours of a collaboration between the jazz icon and Los Angeles’ electronic maestro but it …
A spur-of-the-moment decision from Flying Lotus to thank fans for getting him 300,000 Twitter followers has manifested itself as an impromptu compilation entitled ideas+drafts+loops.
MeLo-X releases a short film to accompany his upcoming album, “GOD: Piéce de Résistance”. When it came to short films, Michael Jackson had that game on lock while he was with us but it seems he has spiritually passed the baton onto the likes of Flying Lotus and now MeLo-X. The latter is set to …
A kind soul has uploaded the entire transmission of FlyLo FM to YouTube.
Captain Murphy on a track with Earl Sweatshirt, Viktor Vaughn and Thundercat? Yep, that (finally) happened on Between Villains.
We’ve found another Flying Lotus flip, this time from Kaligraph E who’s remixed See Thru To U. The more popular you become as an artist, the more you lend yourself to reinterpretations. People like your style and want to put their own slant on things. Kaligraph E is someone we know about already having picked …
I do love harmonic samples. You could catch a riff and transform it into an instrument or use it as a counter melody. The possibilities are endless. For our latest edition of Sampleface Five, we look at five quality examples of what can be done with harmonic samples by some of the best producers around. …
Jazz guitarist and beat maestro Go Yama remakes Flying Lotus’ Putty Boy Strut with his good ol’ guitar. This is quite cool. San Diego-based guitarist Go Yama has remade Flying Lotus’ Putty Boy Strut, stripping the melody away and replacing it with his own guitar. The cover is almost a carbon copy in structure to …
Oregon producer TimeLess One releases a Flying Lotus-esque track called Sn00py and it’s free to download. Charlie Brown would have been a whole lot different if this was the kind of music played on the show. TimeLess One used the name of the famous silent dog for his latest beat. Citing his main influences as …
Dubspot took the liberty of doing a SXSW interview with good old Flying Lotus.
The LA production maestro has his hands in a lot of jars but what should he do next? Here are five things we think Flying Lotus should do before he dies.
FlyLo will have his very own radio station on GTA 5.
Mac Miller jumps on a dope Flying Lotus beat and actually makes it work. As FACT said, Mac Miller is an acquired taste and we couldn’t agree more. But he’s come into his own this time around with S.D.S. The beat, produced by Flying Lotus, is on a hazy vibe, similar to the beats he …
Brainfeeder bassist Thundercat announces his new album with Flying Lotus as executive producer. He’s also put a cut from the LP on Soundcloud. When it comes to anything Flying Lotus-related, the internet becomes a foaming frenzy of activity. That was still the case when Thundercat announced the release of his upcoming album, Apocalypse, which FlyLo …
Flying Lotus drops his dope Adventure Time track on Soundcloud. Whenever Soundcloud crashes (and let’s face it, this is a fairly regular thing), I can’t help but wonder if Flying Lotus has something to do with it. After all, any time he drops a track on there, shit takes off like a fighter jet. This …
We told you about the possibility of Flying Lotus, Thundercat and Herbie Hancock working on music together. Now there’s another video of them listening to Dilla. Now, I know what you might be thinking – “I listen to Dilla everyday, that’s not news.” Well, that’s true and I do it too BUT when the track …