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Music : Los Angeles
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Rating: 
- strange and beautiful
i 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 efforts
Flying 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 the danceable playfulness we know Flying Lotus to be capable of, but nothing is on par to the first time you heard "Tea Leaf Dancers" from the Reset EP.
Overall this is a decent listen but the weakest release by the LA musician to date. Start with 1984 or Reset.
Rating: - u cant be talkin while u listen to this cd, for real
it 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-hop
I'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 forces my hand, whether it was derived from his relatives or not.
Los Angeles strikes a perfect balance between establishing a consistent (dank) sound, while never growing tiresome. Think London-based dubstep artist Burial with hip-hop leanings and a lot more variation. Colorful synthetic swirls, drum breaks, and vocal samples fall into a cinematic groove on every track, only to be deconstructed again (often in less than three minutes).
This is one of the first standout albums of 2008. Highly recommended.
Rating: - Thematic hip-hop
While 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 of Little India's spices and rhythms ("Melt!"), see red carpet traffic jams ("Golden Diva"), pull down the wrong street at the wrong time ("Riot") and drowsily smile like a tourist in La Brea ("Sleepy Dinosaur").
- 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 the danceable playfulness we know Flying Lotus to be capable of, but nothing is on par to the first time you heard "Tea Leaf Dancers" from the Reset EP.
Overall this is a decent listen but the weakest release by the LA musician to date. Start with 1984 or Reset.
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 forces my hand, whether it was derived from his relatives or not.
Los Angeles strikes a perfect balance between establishing a consistent (dank) sound, while never growing tiresome. Think London-based dubstep artist Burial with hip-hop leanings and a lot more variation. Colorful synthetic swirls, drum breaks, and vocal samples fall into a cinematic groove on every track, only to be deconstructed again (often in less than three minutes).
This is one of the first standout albums of 2008. Highly recommended.
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 of Little India's spices and rhythms ("Melt!"), see red carpet traffic jams ("Golden Diva"), pull down the wrong street at the wrong time ("Riot") and drowsily smile like a tourist in La Brea ("Sleepy Dinosaur").