flying lotus over and over and over

Hey all,

Today is a drag. For some or other reason, I have been struggling to get out of bed for the past few weeks. I wonder “How can this be? I am only 26! There must be something wrong.” (Is there something wrong with me? Besides the terribly obvious, of course.)

And so, I have been trawling online (and making copious amounts of instant chocochinos) in order to find some inspiration. I have a few key sources that normally hit the spot, but today, only one thing on the whole big interwebs impressed me:

kickass promo game from Flying Lotus (the genius)

For those of y’all who don’t know who Flying Lotus is: Born Steven Ellison, he is an experimental multi-genre music producer, and laptop musician from Winnetka, California. He was born in 1983, which makes him roughly only one year older than me, and yet he has the talent of someone decades older. He comes from the same family as Alice Coltrane – his late great aunt, and has changed electronic music forever (as far as I’m concerned). No two tracks he’s created are ever remotely the same, and yet, he puts together albums that make housework on a saturday seem like an OK thing to do. I’ve ironed a mad total of about 20 garments to his music, and it felt like fun. (Christ, he’s good) His music travels between everywhere from hip hop beat sampling to downtempo, from slow glitch to dubstep. I don’t think I could possibly categorise this man’s work. 

What’s he made? Good question. Well, in a short matter of time (just a couple of years), he’s released 2 beat compilations, 3 full-length albums, 7 EPs and 6 12-inch singles. That’s pretty wicked. (And that’s also a lot of hard work.)

If you’re curious and are not into any form of gaming (even a kind as basic as what I’ve offered further up in this post), then please CLICK HERE to enjoy his latest album – Cosmogramma.

album cover nice-ness

hate to love

 

them

 

him

 

Ah, yes. These guys. The keepers of my heart and by far the most insightful, dark and intelligent men in music – still. I’ve done everything I could to stop loving them. You see, when you love band like this, you’re setting yourself up for a fall. This is why:

1. Your love for them will be lost amongst the mainstream idiots who treat their music as the equivalent of prescribed reading when they decide that they want to be a part of some sort of scene

2. Their records are hard to find. Which means that you’ll no doubt end up in a physical tussle with a horribly spotty and equally depressed teenage boy next to the boot of some stranger’s car at a flea market

3. Should the tussle not happen, you’ll enter into a bidding war, in which you’ll throw away all the money you were going to use to eat for the next few weeks. You’ll do this because you have to – because you won’t be able to stand the thought of those records going home with someone else

4 You’ll spend a lot of time lamenting the fact that Ian Curtis is, in fact, dead. You’ll ask yourself over and over “WHYYYYYYY?”, and you’ll become internally resentful towards Bernard Sumner and/or Debbie Curtis for not walking in on him just as he was having his wicked way with the clothes line

5 You’ll curse the field of medicine for not being able to soothe his epilepsy properly, and thus, remove some of the emotional strain of being, well, Ian Curtis

These are just a few of the things that happen to me/will happen to you if you’ve ever become attached to this band.

I keep banishing Joy Division from my iPod, only for them to find their way back onto it time and time again. I must be doing this in my sleep. It must be my alter ego.

And it’s probably my alter ego that’s providing you with this right now.

Happy suffering.

new year’s eye candy.

 

As promised in my new year’s blog, here are some of the pics, displaying both good and bad behaviour. There were some superb moments. I might even go as far to say that it was in my top 3 new year’s experiences. (gasp!)

my beautiful friends

us girls

fireworks from the catamaran

more fireworks

we love the burj al arab

more burj action

sparkly

fireworks can be surprisingly lovely

on the bus with my new friend from the ivory coast

lady friends

random art house photo of our laps

the burj dubai, watching over us as we eat some lunch

the fountains at safa park

rare wildlife in safa park

ferris wheel at safa park

Mr B and the mini polar bear dog at the pet store

are you local, dear?

it was such an amazing few days. and now, it’s back to reality! sigh!

treats #1.

 

listen to this album in its entirety. with a cup of tea.

 

Here is the amazing, award-winning (not that i really care) album from Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion. I must admit, I never really gave this album much of a listen until an old friend mentioned it to me on the phone the other night. I’d forgotten that i had it in my iTunes altogether! Nice moment of re-discovery. Enjoy:

http://www.nodata.tv/2008/12/animal-collective-merriweather-post.html

FYI: The password is nodata.tv

Peace X