Steven FlyLo Ellison recorded a session at the BBC’s Maida Vale studio with Gilles Peterson on hosting and interview duties. Stereogum Top 50 LP Cosmogramma’s saxophonic flights and often mesmerizing jazz/beat-music fusion seem to have fueled the lineup of the live band Ellison brought with him for the set, with the instrumen...

Everybody’s work-week anthem “Kill Your Co-Workers” comes from Flying Lotus’s Cosmogramma follow-up, the seven-song Pattern + Grid World. This animated video was put together by Beeple (aka Mike Winkelmann). It starts with a sunny small town parade complete with “rainbows are yummy” signs. Then...

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Pair this with “Camera Day,” it’s another track from Flying Lotus’s Cosmogramma follow-up Pattern + Grid World, the seven-track set Steven Ellison’s releasing just three months after his proper LP’s bold-stroked beat opus. This one plays with drum and bass BPMs and intersecting synth li...

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...