flying lotus: c/d, s/d

listening to this flying lotus streaming thing now: http://flying-lotus.com/radio

he's got stephen bruner (dude who kills it on the nu-amerykah records) jamming along on bass. he's bad, but if he's all over cosmogramma then i can see why whiney made the sub-squarepusher crack (which seemed o_O).

i cant make up my mind about this album. its so all over the shop that its hard to latch on to any of it. but it does that approach better than hudson mohawke for instance, who just made a mess of his album. that first track with all the manic synth squiggles seems to be from some other track though that i cant quite think of. anyone know? its bugging me.

i don't know, i think that it has an identifiable sound that encompasses a lot of different shit (the usual beats & synths, bleeps, strings, the free jazz snippets).

that said i wasn't blown away on first listen like i was hoping, but it's growing.

btw track 2 is the only squarepusher-y thing on the record

so he now has set up his own label : brainfeeder (which ninjatune are going to dist. in the uk)
i was not overly impressed with the flying lotus album, but the lorn album, nothing else, thats coming out on his label is very good.
less twisting and turning glitch beats a la p73, more of a flow.
and at only 33 minutes, doesn't outstay its welcome,
also, sounds great.
which is probably why it has 'mastered by clark' clearly shown on the basic artwork.

Loving "Cosmogramma", particularly the increased jazz elements. It feels like a cohesive album, something I don't at all need or necessarily look for. I was a big fan of "Los Angeles" but feel like I'm on my way to liking this even more.

Picked this up, listened once... like it fine, can tell it's gonna be a big "grower" over the course of the year.

Okay Cosmogramma is 17 different kinds of awesome, but right now I can't get enough of "German Haircut".

i like it more & notice more detail every time i listen to it

Yeah, "German Haircut" is great. Honestly, the only track I could do without is "Table Tennis" and that's because of the vocals. At least it reminded me of this awesomeness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQOKys_pN2c

Does anyone know what the guitar sample in 'dance of the psuedo nymphs', sorta sounds like one of the songs from 'the wicker man' soundtrack.

First half of first listen is underwhelming. Sonically this is very brash, when these elements ought to be dealt with a little more... carefully? He loses things in the mix. Maybe it'll reveal with more lessons. Mind you vie come at this after tbd Steve Mason, which is fucking beautiful.

Lessons = listens.

Wall Street Journal sez: Flying Lotus Soars

So this album is really excellent. When the scatting comes in on Do The Astral Plane straight form MmmHmm, my heart puts on a pair of shades. Very special.

its very special. though id have liked some of the tracks to be more developed.

This is sounding great, I like that each track is only a couple of minutes long, nothing outstays its welcome.

genuinely excited to see how he maps these parameters to knobs in ableton live

On second listen it's fantastic, it's the textures and the bombastic film soundtrack strings threaded through everything that really make it for me. I'm trying to work out what this sounds like a superior version of - maybe Amon Tobin's Supermodified?

it does kinda remind me of ninja tune ish stuff, cinematic orchestra, etc that kind of thing, just better and more fluid and more expansive, somehow more authoritative (and well just more american).

So, the review in The Wire seemed to think this was brilliant, or had the potential to be brilliant, but it was kind of a mess. Tempted to get it, but I'll probably read another review and listen to a few more tunes first.

It's awesome. Does take a few spins to really sink in, though.

Sweet. Review made it sound appealing -- the song or two I've heard so far were definitely different from what I usually listen to, but I'm intrigued.

It is kind of a mess. The first listen, it's totally overwhelming and "eep, what is this disjointed load of jazzwank!?!??!?" but somewhere around Mmmhmm it starts to make more sense. And so you listen again, and then you start seeing all the patterns and kind of spiderweb connections and then you listen again and then it's all WOW ACTUALLY THIS IS AMAZING that this thing that started out seeming like random noise flips and becomes a beautiful incredibly intricate lacelike web.

Precisely.

think it's cuz he smokes a lot of weed

Oh man, great post Masonic Boom! Bought this like an hour or two ago at the rekkid store. Can't wait to get into it more.

Did he really sample his mother's life support machine? I can't work out if that's moving or sociopathic.

Also what does the final track remind me of? It's really bugging me.

Is it something by the Avalanches?

really feelin this~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzqw6yKnvGQ

o daym

the lorn album is pretty cool, i guess, it's a good sounding record for sure. his drum are so pristine sounding (esp. compared to the other Brainfeeder stuff), it's what i imagine the samples are like on those expensive sample packs you see at guitar center or whatever.

'army of fear' is pretty dope.

I know i'm really late but that Essential Mix is great

Was just thinking of reviving this. Cosmogramma is growing on me, very very slowly. The good thing is that from the beginning I found it at least okay to have on, so it's got all this time to grow on me, and it's come in handy when I want something in the background. It's still like I don't really like it that much and yet I keep playing it, so what does that mean exactly?

That sums this guy up for me. Not quite great enough to have me playing this on endless loop, but far too engaging to be just background music. I suppose if I still walked places or smoked weed I would have more uses for this music. It's good to drive to, though!

i've been going back to 'los angeles' a lot lately and it feels a lot more detailed & visceral than this imo

I'd say LA is def. more visceral, Cosmogramma more detailed...

cosmogramma has all the orchestration, but i hear a lot more detail in the synths, weird background sounds, and rhythms in l.a.

btw i never caught that essential mix, would love to hear it if someone could hook me up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2dVGlCH2ag&NR=1

i posting this strictly for its awesome artwork:

http://imgur.com/N93xu.jpg

Pattern+Grid World is an upcoming EP by Flying Lotus. It was announced on the Warp Records website on August 17, 2010, and is to be released on September 20/21, 2010.

Track Listing:

1. Clay
2. Kill Your Co-Workers
3. PieFace
4. Time Vampires
5. Jurassic Notion/M Theory
6. Camera Day
7. Physics For Everyone!

So how is this other Flying Lotus thing?

The material is different enough from Cosmogramma to warrant its own EP. Not sure if these are leftovers or mostly new stuff he's just whipped up, but I like it.

scared to relisten because it keeps sounding more and more like squarepusher

but really, THE LORN ALBUM IS SICK

ok this is the best thing ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPLNK3mn7zE

don't like the new EP much myself, too chiptunes / drill & bass for my taste

what do you know, i agree! too squarepusher, i think i only listened to it once.

if i'm going to listen to chiptunes i'd rather listen to rustie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOHAXsJHPuw

ok this is the best thing ever - fyi song is ok, I was mostly referring to the video.