L.A. laptop beatmaster/live smiler Flying Lotus is following his winning 2010 LP Cosmogramma with a 2010 EP titled Pattern+Grid World. It spans seven tracks, one of which is the mindfully major-keyed, relatively optimistic FlyLo upper “Camera Day”; even the synth lines approximating sirens toward the end sound uplifting insid...

Flying Lotus’s “Heave(n)” video solidified the non-album track’s job as the soundtrack for “building a better pyramid.” This Special Problems-directed “Mmmhmm” clip solidifies the Thundercat-featuring Cosmogramma tune’s job as the soundtrack for “building a better high....

A non-Cosmogramma track popped up today via Flying Lotus’s Twitter with a simple “I forgot to give you this…” If you follow the ellipses, you’ll find a chopped-up “Heave(n),” the soundtrack for “building a better pyramid.”It works well as a segue into anoth...

AP - Flying Lotus, "Cosmogramma" (Warp)

Charisma isn’t something you expect when you sign up for a live set from a one-man battery of controllers and Macbook sound design applications, but it’s the word I wound up repeating after Flying Lotus’s killer glitch-tripped desert set at Coachella a few weeks ago. Steven Ellison was showcasing bits from Los Ange...