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Los Angeles by: Flying Lotus List Price: $14.99 CD-Charts Price: $13.99 You Save: $1.00 ( 7%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0801061016524 Label: Warp Records Manufacturer: Warp Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warp Records Release Date: June 10, 2008 Studio: Warp Records Sales Rank: 2126 MPN: 165 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: With the Reset EP released October last year and his bootleg mixes of everyone from KELIS to MR. OIZO and MADVILLAIN circulating amongst the heads, FLYING LOTUS' name is on the lips of many as the leader of a new generation of artists emerging from California. A movement that has captured attention worldwide, fuelled by hip-hop and cutting-edge dance music, FLYING LOTUS is redefining the sound of LA. Flying Lotus is a man of many sides; from the huge sounding collabs and remixes giving indication of the slickest productions you are likely to hear on radio to his high voltage live shows (we saw earlier this year) which are somewhere between the best ever house party DJ and the most crowd-smashing live electronic act you've seen, to this new album proper - 'Los Angeles' - a deep, soulful, intricate album where glints of detail are unearthed to make this opus richer on every listen. Of course, it?s no secret that Lotus is the product of a rich musical lineage and Auntie's Harp serves not only as a collaboration with his majestic aunt (ALICE COLTRANE), but also a more fitting tribute. Testament arrives as the intro to Fly Lo's collaborator GONJA SUFI in all his mage-like splendor. Like DR. DRE & SNOOP DOGG, TIMBALAND & MISSY or BETH GIBBONS & GEOFF BARROW, the pairing of a pioneering producer & entirely distinct vocalist/songwriter is a force to be reckoned with. The feeling is only amplified with the closing opus Infintum. Enveloping vocalist LAURA DARLINGTON in a track that bridges GAINSBOURG/BARDOT territory with BROADCAST and shape-shifting post-modern R&B, it is a sublime bookend to Brainfeeder and serves as the perfect FIN to Los Angeles epic journey. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - strange and beautifuli don't agree w/ the reviewer who says Los Angelas is a letdown after Reset. i think it's a very nice progression. both are unique and superb and some of the most interesting and exciting electronic music being made today. highest recommendation. Rating:  - Disappointing compared to previous effortsFlying Lotus' first two releases, the full-length album 1984 and the Reset EP, featured fresh, inventive music that, while having elements from hip-hop and IDM, managed to have a sound you have never heard before. Unfortunately that's exactly what this album lacks: freshness. There are some really great beats here; the momentum picks up somewhere midway through the disc from Golden Diva to Sleepy Dinosaur. But for me there's just something missing here; rather than a full-length exploration of the sounds heard in 2006's phenomenal Reset EP, we get a merely decent collection of less than memorable tunes that dance around a theme that is tired by the end of the disc. There will certainly be some beats and hooks that grab your attention here with ... Read More: Rating: - u cant be talkin while u listen to this cd, for realit prolly wont be liked by alotta people (cause alotta people are dumb) as a matter of fact my boy kept askin what this is. He shut up after awhile while we was listenin to it in the car, as i did also. calling it a cd aint givin it justice. if you and i listenin to the cd together in the car i bet u we both be quiet. its an experience, man. i like experiences. you dont really know what u gettin on the next track , let alone you may not catch if the songs transistion. I didnt. if u'd like a solid experience that is super replayable u should already have this cd, ya know? Rating: - Mesmerizing and atmospheric instrumental hip-hopI'll admit, my exposure to avant-garde, left field instrumental hip hop is limited to the major players--Dilla and Madlib, among a handful of others. My first exposure to Flying Lotus were the interludes on Adult Swim that he soundtracked, although I didn't know it at the time. FlyLo makes no attempt to disguise his influences or history. A self described member of "the Nintendo generation," this record is teeming with glitchy blips and beeps that evoke the 8-bit classics, but they're drenched in swirling synth lines and chopped apart beyond recognition. I would like to resist mentioning that he's the grand-nephew of Alice Coltrane, but his clear affinity for jazz arrangements (and relentless defiance of genre restrictions) almost ... Read More: Rating: - Thematic hip-hopWhile making a documentary in Paris about his musical relatives, a taxi driver asked Steven Ellison aka Flying Lotus if he and his crew were musicians. He slumped down in his seat, but great aunt Alice Coltrane spoke up: "Yeah, this guy, he's a musician too; he thinks he's a filmmaker, though". After a few listens to Los Angeles (and all of his stellar work, for that matter), you notice that Ellison's music is the perfect mix of both, the album title, his hometown, providing the thematic element (something you'll really notice if you've ever spent time in L.A.) to this extraordinary hypercompressed, claustrophobic mélange of samples, broken rhythms and analog loveliness. You hear spooky, foggy nighttime Malibu surf ("Camel"), experience whiffs ... Read More: |
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