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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #45 on Feb 23, 2011, 8:08pm »
One sentiment sums up Flying Lotus for me, "the dude is playin' it safe". I hear tons of potential and moments here and there that are genuinely unique and interesting, but overall I feel he's either yet to take the big leap or this is pretty much how things will be. He has definitely created somewhat of a "Fly Lo sound", but for me it's still at the stage where what is popping out at me is his ability sync up electronic, hip hop, drum and bass, jazz rhythms and experimentations. Fine, cool I guess, but for a man with so much hype I was hoping to hear a certain unique style and talent that spoke beyond the well placed mix o' genres. Like what Radiohead did with "Kid A" to use a common example.

I like his stuff for the porpoise it serves, but I think people are blinded a little bit too much by the light to see that what he is doing is actually very limiting and has a very real expiration date (wat up dub-step?). I am however, hoping to catch him at Sasquatch to see what he brings to a live show.
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #46 on Feb 23, 2011, 8:42pm »
Why was Cosmogramma showing up on every year end top albums list then? I thought I was the only one who didn't like it until Gramma chimed in last year in the 2010 albums thread. Did Pitchfork like it?
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #47 on Feb 23, 2011, 8:45pm »
FlyLo is probably still wiping Poochfuck's goo off his face after their review of Cosmogramma.
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #48 on Feb 23, 2011, 8:45pm »
So hipster reviewers could pretend they had Jazz muscles to flex to other hipsters in their teens. But they have no Jazz muscles, we all know this hipsters!
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #49 on Feb 23, 2011, 11:23pm »
you guys sure do talk about pitchfork a lot. u mad they gave the WoW soundtrack a bad review or somethin?
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #50 on Feb 23, 2011, 11:27pm »

Feb 23, 2011, 11:23pm, ithaca wrote:
you guys sure do talk about pitchfork a lot. u mad they gave the WoW soundtrack a bad review or somethin?


Really? That's your zing? The... WoW soundtrack? Holy shit I might ban you for making terrible comebacks.
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #51 on Feb 23, 2011, 11:38pm »
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #52 on Feb 23, 2011, 11:42pm »
it wasn't a zing. it was an imitation zing just to get people worked up about how bad it was. and it looks like i succeeded. anyways blah blah, yeah we know pitchfork sucks and writes about music. and some people like flying lotus and some dont, but people dont have to talk bad about it, they just have a different taste.
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #53 on Feb 23, 2011, 11:47pm »
Really? I read through this entire thread trying to find what pissed you off, to no avail. HG is really trying to absorb it, others are stating their opinions etc.

It's not like anyone is in here screaming WRONG KID DIED or anything...
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #54 on Feb 23, 2011, 11:53pm »
who is pissed?
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #55 on Feb 24, 2011, 12:03am »
Pitchfork gave the last two Opeth albums pretty good reviews. Which is weird, because I thought that most of the reviewers were stuck up hipster douchebags.
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #56 on Feb 24, 2011, 12:04am »
Oh wait, they are.
Also, they like to use their thesaurus alot.
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #57 on Feb 24, 2011, 12:21am »

Feb 23, 2011, 8:08pm, Friendly Destroyer wrote:
One sentiment sums up Flying Lotus for me, "the dude is playin' it safe". I hear tons of potential and moments here and there that are genuinely unique and interesting, but overall I feel he's either yet to take the big leap or this is pretty much how things will be. He has definitely created somewhat of a "Fly Lo sound", but for me it's still at the stage where what is popping out at me is his ability sync up electronic, hip hop, drum and bass, jazz rhythms and experimentations. Fine, cool I guess, but for a man with so much hype I was hoping to hear a certain unique style and talent that spoke beyond the well placed mix o' genres. Like what Radiohead did with "Kid A" to use a common example.

I like his stuff for the porpoise it serves, but I think people are blinded a little bit too much by the light to see that what he is doing is actually very limiting and has a very real expiration date (wat up dub-step?). I am however, hoping to catch him at Sasquatch to see what he brings to a live show.


he's not exactly trying to reinvent the wheel tho.
you may be projecting what you feel he should be doing vs. what he actually is doing.. (which is sometimes easy to do with so many terrible music writers gushing over artists with rampant hyperbole)

he's started with the instrumental hip hop template w/ heavy influence from dilla & madlib.. and married it with a specific electronic scene from uk/eu. it may seem like nothing now.. but he was one of the first to actually bridge the gap between the two scenes by linking up with the london/glasgow peoples early and helping to develop middle ground between american hip hop & uk dubstep (the original dubstep sound.. not skrillex or whatever). since then, a new "wonky" sound has begun to develop worldwide & places like low end theory in la have become real hotbeds for new producers. and flylo played a big role in that

not that any of those are reasons you should like him.. just that the guy has been very influential & is hardly just going through the motions. and a pitchfork review is obvs always a good thing for an artist.. but the guy already had a healthy following/acclaim before they ever decided they liked him. just that that world (aside from a few columns/record reviews) is largely insular from pitchfork's
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #58 on Feb 24, 2011, 12:28am »
You basically outlined what I was saying about his music. The marrying of genres is all I hear most of the time, nothing all that inventive beyond that.

I still enjoy what he does within the scope it presents, but I'm not losing my shit over him yet.
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Re: Flying Lotus
« Reply #59 on Feb 24, 2011, 12:29am »
Limp Bizkit married things and influenced people too, btw.
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