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  Rap's Most Slept-On Releases of 2012's Third Quarter

  October 10, 2012 – Some of my favorites from July, August, and September, like Styles P's brutal, hipster-baiting The Diamond Life Project, or 100s' evil pimp rap for the Tumblr generation Ice Cold Perm, and great stuff we've premiered (7evenThirty's Heaven's Computer, 8Ball's Life's Quest, Antwon's End Of Earth, and Labtekwon's HARDCORE: Labtekwon and the Righteous Indignation/Rootzilla vs Masta Akbar), all deserve to get some additional attention, but I …
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  Flying Lotus' New 'FLOTUS' Written For Childish Gambino, Not Michelle Obama

  October 8, 2012 – Sure, "FLOTUS" happens to be a handy portmanteau of Steven Ellison's recording alias, Flying Lotus, but his freshly leaked new track of the same name has a few things in common with the First Lady of the United States. While the Los Angeles beat guru agrees with SPIN's tongue-in-cheek assesment that the song is "stately, elegant, and powerful ... …
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• Flying Lotus, 'Until the Quiet Comes' (Warp)

  October 1, 2012 – When we visited Flying Lotus' Los Angeles home back in July, the man born Steven Ellison was in the grips of some crippling jet lag. He'd awakened at 4 a.m., and nothing could make him fall back to sleep. Swimming laps in his pool, smoking blunts, drinking "lean," popping a pill, even a wee-hours booty call. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Muse, Flying Lotus, Miguel, More!

  September 25, 2012 – Yet another bounty of streaming platters is upon us. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, served:1) Flying Lotus, Until the Quiet Comes. "Intricate enough to make listeners scramble to dissect every little flourish in the mix, but… so sonically brash and powerful that it's hard not to let the whole body of sound wash over you." (via NPR)2) Miguel, Kaleidoscope Dream. …
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  Watch the Robots Win in Flying Lotus' 'Putty Boy Strut' Video

  September 19, 2012 – Flying Lotus has been a busy beat guru. His highly anticipated fourth LP Until the Quiet Comes is out October 2, but he's remixed Frank Ocean, collab'ed with Earl Sweatshirt, dropped a new Gaslamp Killer album, and released a short film all within the past few weeks. …
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  Hear Gaslamp Killer's Turkish Tribute 'Nissim'

  September 14, 2012 – Outside of his home base of Los Angeles, the Gaslamp Killer has a rep for bringing brutal bass and heavy samples to whatever dingy dance hall or sweaty fest tent he visits. …
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  Flying Lotus Drops Chipmunk Soul Remix of Frank Ocean's 'Thinking About You'

  September 10, 2012 – Los Angeles electronic auteur Flying Lotus caused some confusion when he leaked an unfinished remix of Frank Ocean's "Thinking About You" on Twitter last night. Called "Binge Eating Without You," the track seems to be little more than the original pitched-up and percuss'ed. It's PBR&B meets Chipmunk Soul, with some additional blips and jungle drums in the mix. The song has scooped up nearly 60,000 plays  …
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  Flying Lotus Resurrects the Dead in Short Film 'Until the Quiet Comes'

  September 6, 2012 – The upcoming Flying Lotus album Until the Quiet Comes plays like a space-dust-sprinkled dream, but the Los Angeles beat genius' new "Until the Quiet Comes" short film paints a much darker picture. Directed by Kahlil Joseph, the gorgeous clip was shot on 35 mm in the Nickerson Gardens project in Watts and features three songs from the new LP. …
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  Hear Flying Lotus' Erykah Badu-izm'd 'See Thru to U'

  August 16, 2012 – Mystics gotta stick together. The cerebral, exploratory nature of Flying Lotus' beatmaking might help explain why Radiohead's Thom Yorke is reprising his guest appearance from 2010's Cosmogramma on follow-up Until the Quiet Comes (out October 2 in North American and a day earlier elsewhere on Warp Records). …
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  Flying Lotus Surprised by Thom Yorke's 'Until the Quiet Comes' Cameo

  July 26, 2012 – Electronic polymath Flying Lotus is taking a meeting with an underground L.A. rapper in his Mt. Washington, California, home. Did he bring any of his music for FlyLo to hear? Well, no, but he does go into a particularly Californian spiel about how he wants to have him on as executive producer for a project bigger than music, that could have crossover with fashion and video, embracing everything happening in L.A. …
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