Benji B’s out on vacation, leaving the house keys to the Brainfeeders, who drink his soy milk and smoke his finest weed — all in an attempt to topple J Rocc for best radio mix of the young year. It’s unclear who wins, but the Walking Dead throw their firing squad at the problem. Straight […]

Flying Lotus – Kill Your Co-Workers from beeple on Vimeo. Some will interpret Flying Lotus’ robotic-futuristic-Main St. parade-cyborg war as a trenchant commentary on automation in society and hatred for co-workers. I prefer to see this Rorschach clip as a hybrid of the “Whacking Day” parade from “The Simpsons” crossed with the “Itchy and Scratchy” […]

Back like cooked Cav. Almost. I write this from several miles in the air, in front of a guy asking to borrow my copy of US Air magazine, next to a trio of teenagers flipping breathlessly through Life & Style. I have apparently not been keeping up with the Kardashians, but I know that Derek […]

I’m a committed skeptic towards the concept of benevolent corporate benefactors, but Adult Swim have consistently demonstrated a creativity and foresight alien to the major label morons who bring me both kinds of rap: Acne Cream skinny jeans rap and Gold Doubloon-tossing yacht-hop. Admittedly, the ATL Rmx project was scattershot, but whatever blunted executive decided […]

Whether or not the accolades were deserved or not, the self-fulfilling nature of the Internet hype machine assured that Flying Lotus would be crowned the new king of dubstep, or wonky, or beat music, or whatever inane label journalists ascribed to him this month. I suspect one of the more underlying points of Cosmogramma was […]

I’m still letting my skull simmer from the futuristic synapse-scarring induced by Cosmogramma, but Flying Lotus’ versatility is revealed more by outside production work than his album-length orbits. This year’s collaborations with Gonjasufi and Jose James will be undoubtedly less discussed than his warped Warp release, but they’re equally revelatory to the tastes and talent […]

A few days ago, the Caribou album leaked and I commented how it was only March and I could conceivably be comfortable with three albums (Pantha Du Prince, Four Tet, and Caribou) at the top of my year-end list. Then a friend chimed in, “you really think any of them have a chance at topping […]

Warp’s website has fairly elaborate details about Cosmogramma, Flying Lotus’s sophomore “space opera,” slated for release on 4/20 — along with efforts from Javelin and Caribou. Clearly, this is all some sort of insidious plot to bankrupt the weed smokers of America and England. The Internet is already abuzz over the guest appearance from Paste […]

Forgive the pun, but this would seem to be something of a no-brainer. Quoth the levitating Lotus: “Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone as we’re approaching this new year, I felt it was time to let go of some things that have been gathering dust. Some old things, and some new things, I tried […]

In conjunction with my Pop and Hiss interview of Shafiq Husayn, I was able to wrangle the Flying Lotus remix of Husayn’s “Evil Man.” While the remix doesn’t rank among Lotus’ best work, even at his most prosaic, he’s better than 95 percent of his peers. I’m also posting two stand-out tracks from Husayn’s latest, […]