Flying Lotus enters summer mode with a new double single, “The Room” / “You Don’t Know,” both featuring vocalist Devin Tracy, out now on Warp Records. These two new vocal tracks feature emerging Los Angeles-based soul vocalist Devin Tracy, who Flying Lotus discovered at a session. The kinship was immediate…
Earlier this Spring he released “They Call Me Magic,” the theme song of AppleTV+’s Magic Johnson documentary series of...
Three years in the making, Netflix’s Yasuke is a six-episode anime series created by Bronx-bred and Japan-based television animation creator, producer, and director LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters, Children of Ether, The Boondocks) and starring actor / executive producer LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta, Sorry To Bother You) as the voice of the title character. Yasuke tells the story of a samurai warrior of African descent in a fantastical alternate universe version of...
Flying Lotus releases two new singles, “Black Gold” ft. Thundercat and “Between Memories” ft. Niki Randa, from the upcoming Netflix anime series, Yasuke, out 4/29.
The singles serve as the opening theme and closing credits for the series and both tracks are a part of Apple Music’s New Music Daily. Stream “Black Gold” & “Between Memories” HERE.
Three years in the making, Netflix’s Yasuke is a...
In celebration of the one year anniversary of the landmark album, Flamagra, Flying Lotus has returned with a new and intimate perspective of that epic body of work; Flamagra (Instrumentals). The album is an exploration of Lotus’ mastery of production techniques & virtuosic musicianship that allows the featured players of his world to take center stage.
Now Lotus challenges you to enter his world & re-imagine the single ‘Black Balloons...
Last week Flying Lotus dropped ‘More’ featuring Anderson .Paak alongside a slew of North American dates for his award winning live 3D show. On Saturday night, we premiered the visual directed by the iconic animator Shinichiro Watanabe (of Cowboy Bebop fame) via Toonami on Adult Swim. Flying Lotus and Shinichiro Watanabe’s creative kinship was cultivated while working on BLADE RUNNER: BLACK OUT 2020, the mutual respect led to them collaborating...
Last week, Flying Lotus announced ‘Flamagra,” his next studio album on Warp Records. A sprawling opus featuring a dream cast of collaborators (including David Lynch.) Today, we present new music.
The two-track offering ‘Spontaneous/Takashi’ is a mini-suite from the producer and our first musical step into the Flamagra universe.
‘Spontaneous’ is a flirtatious ballad with Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon singing atop a funky template. It blends perfectly with ‘Takashi’,...
Nearly half a decade has somehow elapsed since the last Flying Lotus album—the Grammy-nominated cadaver tetris of You’re Dead! During that intermission, the multi-disciplinary Los Angeles artist has remained in constant orbit, collaborating with Kendrick Lamar on the classic To Pimp a Butterfly, directing and writing the Sundance-premiered comic horror hallucination Kuso, and producing much of Thundercat’s Drunk. He’s also nurtured his Brainfeeder imprint into the most consistently innovative record...
