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Who is Flying Lotus? A Brief Career Overview
Flying Lotus, born Steven Ellison, is not just a musician; he's a visionary artist, a record producer, DJ, and filmmaker who has been enchanting audiences since his arrival on the music scene in 2006. Known affectionately as FlyLo, he seamlessly blends genres such as afrofuturism, alternative hip hop, electronica, and more, creating a sound that's both psychedelic and urban, unique yet familiar. His ability to fuse hip-hop with avant-garde jazz, IDM, and dubstep has not only made him a prominent figure in music but has also redefined what it means to create in the digital age.
Flying Lotus is celebrated for his groundbreaking achievements, including his highly-acclaimed albums like You're Dead! which not only peaked within the Billboard charts but also earned him Grammy nominations. His label, Brainfeeder, nurtures innovative artists and contributes to the ever-growing viny
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From the humdrum middle class neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley, Flying Lotus flipped a family jazz past and a troublesome school life to become one of the biggest beatmakers on the West Coast. He’s worked with and influenced the likes of Thom Yorke, Erykah Badu, Burial, Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller, Snoop Dogg, and Thundercat, all the while digitizing soul music, masterminding conceptual dreamscapes, and inventing hellish rap characters.
It was only eight years ago that he broke onto the scene with his debut album 1983, and, since then, each chapter in his life has been represented by a groundbreaking new record. So, how did a Nintendo-playing cartoon addict become a Flying Lotus? Stage by stage, we look at the evolution of LA’s modern beat king.
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A FAMILY AFFAIR
If anyone was destined for success, it was Flying Lotus. Born Steven Ellison in 1983, he entered life as the great-nephew of jazz pianist Alice Coltrane and her late husband
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Steve Ellison dreams the future. The Grammy-nominated musician, filmmaker, and Brainfeeder label founder, known to the world as Flying Lotus, possesses that rare alchemical ability to make the objects of his imagination manifest in reality. A sonic and visual berättare, we've heard and seen the sights and sounds of the worlds he's built over the course of six genre-redefining studio albums, a collection of surreal music videos, and through his own bio projects like the experimental horror comedy anthology "Kuso." Then there's FlyLo, the community pillar: In a revitalized LA music scen that saw hip-hop, jazz, a burgeoning beat culture, and electronic music co-mingling, he was at the center of it all. FlyLo was the common denominator from Thundercat to Kamasi Washington to Kendrick Lamar. He lent his talents to transplants too, collaborating with and influencing friends and fellow iconoclasts Mac Miller (RIP) and Donald Glover, all the whil