Live: Kode 9 and Flying Lotus at One Step Beyond
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We make a lot of jokes about dubstep (mainly in the context of beards, standing around and that weird crossover between jam band dances and dubstep dances that we see people doing) but it’s more like a gentle ribbing. We (sometimes) love you dubstep! Friday night’s edition of One Step Beyond at the American Museum of Natural History cemented our love a little more, because Kode 9 and Flying Lotus were playing a selection of mostly unfamiliar but entirely awesome songs (although we did catch bits from FADER-favorite and F61 Gen Fer Joker in the mix). Mainly though, the night seemed like a large scale crossover of a genre that hasn’t really hit the general public yet. Even though people weren’t really sure what to do—dance or…not dance—it didn’t matter. Apparently the bass speaks for itself, no matter what you choose to do with it. Also, shout out to Haley Joel Osment (or someone who looked exactly like him) for coming through and looking pretty much the same, only slightly older.
NYC: One Step Beyond Featuring Flying Lotus and Kode 9
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We’re taking the space theme of our monthly series at the Museum of Natural History a little more literally for this Friday’s edition of One Step Beyond, bringing Flying Lotus and Kode 9 to play by the planetarium. Hailing from California and England, respectively, the two artists promise to both fill the atmosphere with oxygen and crush space. Or whatever. Get tickets to get your face melted. Full flier is after the jump.
Freeload: Flying Lotus ft. Blu, “GNG BNG Remix”
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Flying Lotus covered the New Soul edition of our digital supplement F2 last year, and we have been jamming his Los Angeles EP since then whenever we smo… thought about stuff. It’s difficult to pull a favorite since it’s more a musical voyage (to Stoneyville! oops) than a collection of songs, but one notable bonger banger is “GNG BNG.” And it looks like our favorite LA/Long Beach underground rapper Blu feels the same way since he lopped a chunk of it off for this remix. As usual, he’s posted the lyrics on his MySpace blog, the best of which are clearly With My Beef Jerky Out In The Open, Smoking Keesh/ So Danky That It Stank Like A Qweef From Ya Antie. Fans of Flying Lotus can catch him and Hyperdub’s Kode 9 at the Echoplex in LA this Friday and a week later in NY at the next installment of our One Step Beyond series at the American Museum of Natural History. Bring your vaporizers!
Download: Flying Lotus ft. Blu, “GNG BNG Remix”
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posted on Apr 7, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Blu, electronic/dance, Flying Lotus, freeload, hip hop, Kode 9
Style TV: Lacoste F/W 09 with Christophe Lemaire
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New York Fashion Week and its grueling schedule sometimes necessitates The FADER style department contracting a few shows out to FADER music editors. What sounds like a disaster in the making turned okay, though, because the supremely talented Frenchman behind Lacoste, designer Christophe Lemaire, is a music aficionado and very patient human being. Watch our interview with Lemaire above, pick up the music used in Lacoste’s Fall/Winter 09 runway show — Koushik, Cluster and Flying Lotus — and for a limited time catch the full runway show at Lacoste.com.
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posted on Feb 18, 2009 in STYLE CHANNEL, STYLE INTERVIEWS SHOW tags Christophe Lemaire, Cluster, Flying Lotus, Koushik, Lacoste
Live: Flying Lotus in Los Angeles
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Dudes slumped over laptops in darkened rooms aren’t usually high on our list of things to pay money for. Why buy the cow when you can stay home and get the milk for free, you know? But when Flying Lotus is involved, we’re willing to make an exception. FlyLo, along with a couple of friends and Brainfeeder signees (Kode9, Daedelus, Gaslamp Killer, Ras G, etc), swarmed the Echoplex in Los Angeles last Friday with ample laser sounds. We were up front most of the night, where the bass hit hard enough to knock the wind out of us, repeatedly. The bass actually spread out far enough for the beat nerds a few feet behind us to stop their never ending chorus of approving WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!!s to ask each other, “Can you feel that bass, dawg?”
