flying lotus: c/d, s/d

so good

Found it surprising that this didn't make the top 77 of 2014. Yeah, it doesn't really maintain the breakneck fusion pace of the first couple of tracks but there are still plenty of ideas in the latter half.

he should prob stop tweeting for a while.

https://twitter.com/flyinglotus/status/743485020241698817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

My art is like a sacred vagina,I'm very selective of who I let smash and prefer it not to be fondled inappropriately

was excited to get free tickets to see him this weekend but then i remembered he’s kinda been acting shitty recently ...

This guy has always been an overrated asshole but I’d feel better having my instincts proven right if he’d ever mattered to more than a few thousand geeks who only discovered IDM in the 200xs

Well, I was disappointed to find out he's such an asshole because I enjoyed his last few albums and I was the type of person who looked down on IDM nerds in the 90s because they were too uptight to dance. So congrats, I guess?

having trouble parsing what you wrote there, tombot

curious though why you think he's always been an asshole?

He's saying he knew Flying Lotus sucked both as a person and musician all along, but would feel more vindicated if his fans were higher up on the coolness totem pole.

i got the first part

second part seems like a parody of the worst impulses of early ILM ... judging music primarily by judging its fans, bad sociology masquerading as music criticism

still curious why you thought he was an asshole all along?

on the topic of judging music primarily by judging its fans, i have it on good authority that he's crossed over with the festival trap crowd (TNGHT fans) so not expecting to see many IDM geeks there, instead expecting lots of bros in tshirts and fluorescent sunglasses

I'm disappointed by how much he's been coming off like an edgy Reddit bro lately, but I still like his records.

Because everyone who wasn’t into my shit, but knew what I was into, told me it was awesome and I had to check it out, so I did, and meh

I’ll get into this tomorrow after sleep and coffee

xp yes whereas i found the "you're dead" imagery a little off-putting but still acceptable, i have no desire to go anywhere near kuso

Because everyone who wasn’t into my shit, but knew what I was into, told me it was awesome and I had to check it out, so I did, and meh

Long lost verse from "Losing My Edge"

ha!

yo tombot ... i'm waiting ...

Oh right.

When people I trust recommend things to me, including critics I follow writing positive reviews, and those things disappoint me, I end up disliking those things in a way that is different in both category and degree from the way I dislike, say, mediocre club music, or any other by-the-numbers shit you care to name. Hate is too strong a word. But it certainly factors in the disappointment with the person(s) who recommended the thing, and then bundles that with the thing itself, plus the money I no longer have because I spent it on the thing that was recommended. Anyway, that's probably normal and not at all interesting so thanks for reading!

Great run, guys.

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I've paid no attention to him but liked his albums well enough. He opened for solange the other night with 3d projections and those, in conjunction with the contact high I got from everyone around me smoking, gave me a fairly credible LSD flashback experience so that was neat.

yes i am seeing the 3d show - how was it?

well i guess you said it was neat, can you tell me more? was he playing new music?

I'm honestly not familiar enough with all of his stuff to say. He did about 35-40 minutes (it was an opening slot after all) and the 3d animations were really impressive, great graphics.

it was ok

would have been pretty mad had i paid - they were asking $35 for it

he played this, it was ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XY0EHSXyk0&feature=youtu.be

try again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XY0EHSXyk0

damn, that new video is awesome. been wanting to catch his new tour, def gonna grab tix. dude gets close to no love out here in Denver but he keeps coming thru, praise

he projected the video behind himself when he "played" it. the projections were really crisp and the 3d was very impressive

i was disappointed though that overall the 3d animations didn't really have any theme or narrative. as my friend put it, it was a bit ... windows screensaver-y

definitely felt like they were just throwing up whatever 3d animations they had come up with. some of it had an outer space theme, some of it was body horror, some of it was like random 90s cyberdelic stuff, some of it related to his old albums. just a grab bag of random shit.

but yeah, taken piece by piece it was impressive

the opening act was some dude named pbdy who was ... not good

i can't find what he played online anywhere but it was laptop music that sounded like a cross between witch house, modern classical, "weightless" grime and drill and bass. not good, though.

a lot to unpack with this new one . some pretty cool shit so far though

Listening now, so far it seems well within his comfort zone, a lot of familiar off kilter beats and bass riffing, a bit less abrasive than some of his previous work. Very listenable, but not exactly revolutionary.

Haven't listened to the new one yet, but none of the singles got me going (except for Lynch), and I really liked You're Dead!. Honestly I'd like to hear a Thundercat-less FL record again. It's kinda cool how their sounds have become inseparable, but I wonder what he would do on some track without the 'just add Thundercat' plugin.

I always like his Twitter commentaries on the tracks. Love that 'All Spies' is straight-up the music from the Spy vs Spy NES game.

Liking the 2nd half of the record a lot

More spacious, the Solange track is really nice

i fuckin love flying lotus

are you a spy mister?

Re-listening to jonwayne's debut 'Bowser' and it holds up, such well-written tracks and rich video game synths. Better than all the retro-sounding indie game soundtracks around today. Probably my favorite non-FlyLo record to come out of the Low End Theory scene (along with Bad Vibes, and the first Teebs album).
https://open.spotify.com/album/2SURtVuzzUeELq1yAEWodw?si=DX-TRlTxQtehMBrMmfLy6Q

I love the part in the Stones Throw doc where jonwayne rolls out of bed and like immediately smokes a j and starts working on beats.