Latest Release
- 29 OCT 2024
- 8 Songs
- Yasuke · 2021
- Spirit Box · 2024
- Spirit Box · 2024
- Spirit Box · 2024
- You're Dead! · 2014
- Spirit Box · 2024
- Cosmogramma · 2010
- Cosmogramma · 2010
- Spirit Box · 2024
- Reset - EP · 2007
Essential Albums
- Flying Lotus blasts off into another galaxy on Cosmogramma, a celestial mixture of jazz, hip-hop, 8-bit videogame sounds and more. The producer’s arrangements are at once soothing and kinetic; they shuffle and ping like a web of organic moving parts on electro-jazz cuts like “Pickled!” and the dubby, cinematic “Zodiac S**t”. The electronic beeps and blips of “...And the World Laughs with You” wriggle alongside Thom Yorke’s unearthly croon, while throwback freak-out “Arkestry” nods to the original cosmic deity, Sun Ra.
- 2024
Music Videos
- 2024
- 2019
- 2019
- 2017
Artist Playlists
- Marrying the freedom of jazz with hip-hop's embrace of noise.
- How he became the brain behind Brainfeeder.
- Experience the wide-ranging impact of this L.A.-based beatmaker.
- Backpack beats, arcade noise and jazz vibes from L.A.'s finest.
More To Hear
- The producer chats with Zane.
- The artist on “Black Gold" plus a chat with Snoop Dogg.
- The producer on his World Record Anderson .Paak collab "More."
- Music from Wavves, Washed Out, Neko Case, and more.
- Joe Kay celebrates 3 years of Soulection Radio on Beats 1.
- Beats 1 goes behind the scenes of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
- What it's like working with Kendrick.
More To See
About Flying Lotus
Revered for his unorthodox fusions of hip-hop, jazz and experimental music, producer and rapper Flying Lotus is an undisputed leader of the underground electronic scene. • After graduating from film school, Lotus—great-nephew of jazz legends Alice and John Coltrane and grandson of singer-songwriter Marilyn McLeod—pivoted to music. In 2004, he landed an internship at Stones Throw Records and began working on his debut album. • Lotus’ career was jump-started in 2006 when a set of his songs were licensed by Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. That same year, he delivered his debut album, 1983. • Lotus’ celebrated Cosmogramma arrived in 2010. Laced with sounds from the hospital room of his late mother, the album won two Independent Music Awards. • In 2012, Lotus began secretly rapping as Captain Murphy. He did not reveal his identity until after the release of his alter ego’s 2012 debut mixtape, Duality. • As Flying Lotus, he issued 2014’s You’re Dead!. Led by the Grammy-nominated “Never Catch Me”, the album reached the Top 20 in the US. • Through his independent label Brainfeeder, Lotus made his debut as a director with the 2017 horror film Kuso. • Lotus’ Flamagra hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Albums in 2019.
- HOMETOWN
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- BORN
- 7 October 1983
- GENRE
- Electronic