Los Angeles

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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0801061016524 Label: Warp Manufacturer: Warp Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warp Release Date: 2008-06-09 Studio: Warp
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Los Angeles! Comment: I'd only heard the odd track by Warp's new prodigy Flying Lotus from what i presume were his previous releases, and they gave me the impression that this was an artist with an idea on how to take glitch-hop and turn it into his own 'thing', but didn't have the focus to push it through. How this album proved me wrong. On reading a couple of positive reviews comparing his to prefuse 73, who is a personal favourite, and claiming that he was 'inspiring a new generation of warp-heads', i bought the album and am thoroughly gratefully i did. The mix of inventive percussion, skipping glitchy beats, synth patterns, and hints of vocals really comes together, and is bound together by some really slick and beautiful production, which elevates him above most of his contemporaries in my opinion. He has not been bound by the trademark 'warp' sound, and has crafted one entirerly of his own. On first listens the album seemed a tad samey or the tracks indistinguishable, but that feeling is soon done away with on multiple listens, and each track is revealed to have it's own layers, feel, and rhythm, as this is very much a rhythmic, percussive album. Also, the work seems cohesive, rounded, and together, which is to Flying Lotus's credit, as the tracks merge into each other seemlessly. Overall; a contender for album of the year, and highly recommended. Customer Rating: Summary: I must have been sent the wrong album! Comment: On reading the two reviews above I decided it was worth getting this album. What a mistake. If you can get over the incessant and distracting artificial crackle that has been added onto the majority of the tracks you are left with a mish mash of sounds that don't really stick together. The album doesn't really go anywhere - as for the beats, I found they had an annoying 'out of time' feeling. Avoid! Customer Rating: Summary: Absolutely, the dance music album of the year so far!! Comment: Quite simply stunning! Dark, mysterious, twisted, deeply bass thumping, completely and utterly mystically original. What is it about Flying Lotus's sound that really puts the hook in me? His music is the equivalent of a nightmarish psychedelic trip through the London Underground. You are rocked, jolted, rattled and blinded by the complete miasma of sound, noise and off-kilter subterranean bass rhythms. `Los Angeles', Flying Lotus's second long player, is an intricately produced, detailed composition. It is the experimental and maturing sound of black America embracing electronic music, a peculiar brew of thundering Hip Hop beats, Jazz and the blues. In this age of lap top musicians and MP3 DJ's, Flying Lotus literally soars above the competition. I've not heard anything like it. I very much like it and I implore you to buy it! Customer Rating: Summary: Beats-Perfected! Comment: After hearing an advance copy of this album, i can safely say that this is an excellent album. There is a lot of hype around Flying lotus however this hype does have some basis for it. This album does more than just pick up where 1983 and Reset left, it completely leapfrogs both releases into a new era of beatmaking! More Reviews