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FLYING LOTUS - 1983
| PrefixMag | | After Jay Dee passed in February, someone pointed me to Flying Lotus's re-creation of my favorite Dilla/Slum Village beat, "Fall in Love." It was a beautiful update and a fitting homage to the fallen master, and it showed me right from jump that with Flying Lotus, I was dealing with more than just another beat-maker....full text |
| | DustedMagazine | | Instrumental hip-hop artist Steven Ellison has the kind of musical lineage that most ladder climbers wouldn’t even dare lie about at parties. He’s the great nephew of Alice Coltrane and cousin of Ravi, a history that he wears proudly despite his chosen metier of hip-hop production. In that field, early reports indicate he’s been heard by the right people: beats featured on the Adult Swim network and a stint composing for “The Boondocks.”...full text |
| | PitchFork | | I'd been hearing about this hot new producer, Flying Lotus-- instrumental hip-hop guy, crafter of "Adult Swim" bumper music, John Coltrane's godson's internist's third cousin or something-- and it's true; he's good. Knows his way around a sequencer, cobbles crazy sounds into beats that only crazy people could possibly rap over (so, basically just MF Doom), has a moniker that looks ill stenciled on a crate. But damn, is someone running a wildly popular Modern Instrumental Hip-Hop workshop now? Does it have a monopsonistic chokehold on a host of beleaguered factories that produce big, brightly colored slabs of BEAT® at an ever more frantic clip to stay afloat against low fees and high demand? Is Dabrye not only the company's president, but a client?...full text |
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