Flying Lotus (dancing, electronic, dance, hip-hop, jazz)

sidewinder · 09-07-2009, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by benzyme

damn...i'm a n00b, but you kids must be n00bs to this style...
listen to : dabrye, caural, and dilla.

flylo elaborates on these styles, particularly the Detroit sound (Dabrye and Dilla, who inspired Dabrye), when it comes to beat structure. Trip-hop it is not. Massive Attack drew the blueprint for trip-hop (which isn't cold, it's soulful...it's a mix of dub, jazz, and hip-hop), elaborating on the Wild Bunch Sound System sound; Portishead soon followed. FlyLo's style isn't quite like it.

P.S., noobs ....it's called glitch-hop (although not nearly as out there as syndrone/machine drum)

No need to come in here with a condescending attitude.

I agree with you on Dabrye and Dilla having influenced Flying Lotus to no end. I'd include Prefuse 73 in there too.

And the term glitch-hop is definitely appropriate for this stuff, but wasn't around (to my knowledge) in the early part of the decade...the only thing I could personally think to call this stuff was trip-hop (and I'm not the only one). Partly due to my lack of familiarity with the Bristol scene, and partly because the name really does fit the music, hip-hop beats that literally feel like they're tripping over each other. Hip-hop and IDM (the glitch and abstract element), basically. But ever since discovering Flying Lotus and even Dabrye before that, I've struggled to apply that same label (trip-hop) to them because it just didn't seem to fit like it did for Prefuse (to me). Glitch hop definitely works better and I think that's why the term has become more popular recently, many new artists have emerged following the footsteps of Dilla/Dabrye/Flying Lotus.

Anyway, life is a learning process. We don't all come out of the cannon knowing everything there is to know about everything.

As for Caural...never really got into him personally, seemed pretty boring.

86 Position · 09-09-2009, 01:52 PM

I think Los Angeles is his best, definitely because he was able to find his own sound with that album. 1983 and Reset are the albums that make people compare him to Dilla (for better or worse) since it's so similar. Same with that demo that's floating about, Raw Cartoons...that Madlib/Dilla sound.

Jneiro Janel is another cat who has been doing this sound from time now.

but you can keep tracing this back to cats like pete rock, premier, marley marl if you wanted to. it all builds on each other I suppose

dollarsandcents · 09-10-2009, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by 86 Position

Jneiro Janel is another cat who has been doing this sound from time now.

This.

Los Angeles is a great release though, but not groundbreaking.

09-09-2009, 01:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
86 Position Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 125	I think Los Angeles is his best, definitely because he was able to find his own sound with that album. 1983 and Reset are the albums that make people compare him to Dilla (for better or worse) since it's so similar. Same with that demo that's floating about, Raw Cartoons...that Madlib/Dilla sound. Jneiro Janel is another cat who has been doing this sound from time now. but you can keep tracing this back to cats like pete rock, premier, marley marl if you wanted to. it all builds on each other I suppose