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Flying Lotus – Quakes

Tuesday
Feb 23,2010

New Flying Lotus tracks are always welcome and this one is no exception (spotted at Urb). Preceding his upcoming Warp release Cosmogramma scheduled for May, “Quakes” brings you some classic Flying Lotus flavor. This particular track will not be on the album, but can be found on the Warp compilation 2010. You can take a [...]

Jose James – Code – Video

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Tuesday
Feb 2,2010

Jose James’ new album Black Magic is out today, but while I impatiently wait for Emusic to get their ‘ish together and make that available here’s a lil something from Friends We Love. “Code” is produced by Flying Lotus and here we get a lil sneak peek at Mr. James laying down those silky vocals.

José [...]

Friday
Nov 27,2009

Saturn Never Sleeps is an audio/visual collaboration between King Britt and Rucyl Mills that involves  producing progressive, genre-bending and experimental music and events. Their live shows have included forward-thinking musicians such as Taylor McFerrin, Sarah White, Flying Lotus and others in the business of future music. Saturn Never Sleeps is also a music label and [...]

Friday
Aug 28,2009

Another dope mix from Anthony Valadez. The concept for this one, according to mr. AV is “the spirit of optimism for the future from a youth’s perspective.” The sounds are soulful and futuristic. Whet yer whistle with the tracklist and then go download. Also congrats are in order because KCRW has given Vala a weekly [...]

Friday
Apr 17,2009

“Tea Leaf Dancers” is one of my favorite Flying Lotus jams, and now there’s a pretty cool video to go along with it. Thanks to Blind I For The Kids

Flying Lotus Music Promo from Phil and Nick on Vimeo.
And some bonus downloads for you:
Download Local Legends ft. Blu

And on this one Blu grabs a track [...]

Saturday
Mar 28,2009

It’s taken me too long to get around to writing this post, but now that I’m on kind of an instrumental kick, it seems appropriate. Here’s another great producer you need to be up on, Pursuit Grooves. If you like Flying Lotus, 14KT and those type of folks, you’ll dig Pursuit Grooves. She was kind [...]

Wednesday
Mar 18,2009

I do love me some Paul Pre. Here’s his latest selection of tastiness, this time in conjunction with YesYesYall.org and tRUEradio mhz. Savor the tracklist below and grab the download.Thanks Paul!
tracklist:
01. Dorian Concept – Fort Teen
02. Exile – Your Summer Song
03. Floating Points – For You
04. Slumgullion – Disko Bowler
05. Devon – Houston
06. 14KT – [...]

Sunday
Mar 8,2009

Credit to Illmami @ Soulbounce for posting this.
I was huge fan of GB’s Soundtrack For Sunrise album waaay back in 2004 but hadn’t heard much from GB since. Not sure if that’s because he wasn’t up to much, or I just wasn’t up on it. Either way I was excited to see that this free [...]

Friday
Feb 6,2009

More cool music + artsy video stuff….The track “Love, Lotus” is a tribute to J. Dilla from H.O.P.E, produced by Flying Lotus, and is featured in this video with some insane origami-animation brilliance from Sipho Mabona. Find out more about H.O.P.E. on his Myspace
Check the video below and you can download “Love, Lotus” here.

H.O.P.E. – [...]

Monday
Dec 29,2008

Jay Scarlett let’s us know what’s up:
Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
Muhsinah – Day Break 2.0
Q-Tip – The Renaissance
Santogold – Santogold
Benga – Dairy Of An Afro Warrior
Daru & Reggie B – Future Music
Theo Parrish – Soundsculptures Vol 1
Aqeel – Inside The Mind Of An Afro American angel
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah
Coultrain – Adventures Of [...]


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