Flying Lotus – BIG MAMA – Blue Screen-Printed LP

Description

Flying Lotus has spent two decades shaping the contours of 21st-century music, moving fluidly between beat science, jazz abstraction and futuristic electronics. Raised in Los Angeles within a deeply musical family – including Marilyn McLeod and Alice Coltrane – Steve Ellison absorbed a wide spectrum of influences early on, from hip-hop production to anime culture. By the late 2000s, his restless, genre-slipping approach had cemented his place within LAs Low End Theory orbit and far beyond. Across his releases for Warp, Ellison has collaborated with figures as varied as David Lynch and Erykah Badu, while his production work has left a deep imprint on landmark records such as Kendrick Lamars To Pimp A Butterfly. BIG MAMA finds Flying Lotus operating at full velocity. Conceived as a single, uninterrupted composition, the EP compresses seven tracks into a rapid-fire sequence with no loops, where every bar shifts and mutates. Ellison describes it as an experimental, maximalist, hyperfast burst – music that feels volatile, explosive and unhinged, like a machine spiralling joyfully out of control. Available on blue, screen-printed 12 vinyl.