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  • Thom Yorke Interviews Flying Lotus

    Thom Yorke Interviews Flying Lotus

    This is a fun little video taken from the WorldWide Awards ceremony. Evidently Flying Lotus’ Cosmogramma won Album of the Year. This conversation happened backstage where Gilles Peterson and Thom Yorke talk to FlyLo about his award and how environment affects how you response to music. They discuss dubstep artist Burial in particular. I think it’s true that certain…

  • Bilal – “Levels” Video – Directed by Flying Lotus

    Bilal – “Levels” Video – Directed by Flying Lotus

    Lots of Bilal goodness for you today via ArtDontSleep: Finally, the video everyone has been waiting for…..Bilal’s “Levels,” directed by super producer Flying Lotus a.k.a. Steve Ellison . Lotus is making his directorial debut and this marks as sort of a Plug Research reunion, where his debut 1983 was released. The visually, stunning video was…

  • Jose James – Vicadin (prod. by Flying Lotus)

    Jose James – Vicadin (prod. by Flying Lotus)

    Here’s the second of the Jose James treats I promised you. Vicadin is everything you’d expect from a collabo with Flying Lotus. Delicious. VICADIN by josejamesworldwide I was lost in the darkness trying to find my way home all alone + my heart said (I’m just waiting for the light of day to find my…

  • Flying Lotus – Quakes

    Flying Lotus – Quakes

    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

    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.…

  • Saturn Never Sleeps Sampler #1

    Saturn Never Sleeps Sampler #1

    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…

  • Anthony Valadez – Stay Connected Vol 2 – Free Download

    Anthony Valadez – Stay Connected Vol 2 – Free Download

    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…

  • Flying Lotus – Tea Leaf Dancers Video

    “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 And some bonus downloads for you: Download Local Legends ft. Blu [audio:local-legends-ft-blu.mp3] And on this one Blu grabs a track from Flying Lotus’ Los Angeles…

  • Pursuit Grooves – Fun Like Passion

    Pursuit Grooves – Fun Like Passion

    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…

  • New Paul Pre Mix With Yes Yes Y’all and tRUEradio mhz

    New Paul Pre Mix With Yes Yes Y’all and tRUEradio mhz

    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…

  • GB Interprets His Contemporaries

    GB Interprets His Contemporaries

    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…

  • H.O.P.E. – Love, Lotus and More Cool Video Artsy Stuff

    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.…