FLYING LOTUS - LOS ANGELES PART 2
Welcome to season 2 of Why this album! where my guest talks about their favorite albums and why they are so important to them.
We continue with our guest ,visual artist Matthew Romasanta, as we sit down and talk about the 2nd studio album by Flying Lotus ; Los Angeles. We Discuss early taste in muisc, Going to shows in LA, the inception of having a creative mindset and the influence music has on the art.
For the uninitiated Steven D. Bingley-Ellison (born October 7, 1983), known by his stage name Flying Lotus or sometimes FlyLo, is an American record producer, DJ, filmmaker and rapper from Los Angeles. He is also the founder of the record label Brainfeeder.
Flying Lotus has released seven studio albums—1983 (2006), Los Angeles (2008), Cosmogramma (2010), Until the Quiet Comes (2012), You're Dead! (2014), Flamagra (2019) and Yasuke (2021)—to critical acclaim.He has produced much of the bumper music on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block.He also contributed remixes for fellow Plug Research artists including Mia Doi Todd.
In 2012, Flying Lotus began rapping under the persona Captain Murphy, based on the Sealab 2021 character of the same name. Ellison kept this fact a secret for several months, finally revealing his identity several weeks after the release of his first rap mixtape: Duality (2012).
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