The Gaslamp Killer
"This is the way the world ends", a child's voice croons during the hidden outro of Gaslamp Killer's long-awaited debut album Breakthrough, and it clearly marks out the album that preceded it as an...
View ArticleThundercat's Cosmic Bass Odyssey
"Wow, this is beautiful," says Thundercat. The West Coast bass wizard (born Stephen Bruner) looks out on Toronto's Lake Ontario, sparkling in the late-afternoon spring sunshine, during a brief break...
View ArticleDusted Reviews Artist: Flying Lotus Album: Until the Quiet Comes Label: Warp...
Youre probably as tired of reading Flying Lotus background checks as I am, so lets skip the pedigree chat and cut to the chase: Until the Quiet Comes is a weak, unnecessarily portentous title for a...
View ArticleThe Gaslamp Killer + Bambooman LIVE!
HiFi Club, Leeds Thu 9th May 2013 The HiFi Club in conjunction with the Catacomb clubnight present the Low End Theory legend that is The Gaslamp Killer at The HiFi Club on Thursday 9th May 2013. Date:...
View ArticleJazz and EDM are meeting on the dance floor - Wire Lifestyle - The...
LOS ANGELES - The cavernous dance club in downtown L.A. is hopping, and the weekend is still a day away. The club is ordinarily a hotbed of thumping house music, but tonight, the headliner -...
View ArticleThe groove where jazz and dance music meet
The cavernous dance club in downtown L.A. is hopping, and the weekend is still a day away. The club is ordinarily a hotbed of thumping house music, but tonight, the headliner — Houston-born jazz...
View ArticleFirst Listen: Thundercat, 'Apocalypse'
If you've ever passed by the funk and jazz-lite dollar bin at the record store, Stephen Bruner kindly asks that you pause to revel in the pastel colors and unfettered joy. The virtuosic bassist and...
View ArticleDusted Reviews Artist: Teebs Album: Collections 01 Label: Brainfeeder Review...
Honestly, I can't tell you a thing about Teebs' debut, Ardour. I know I've played it through on multiple occasions over the last year or so. Its songs have emitted from earbuds, on computer speakers,...
View ArticleFlipping the script
With his new album Until the Quiet Comes, musician, producer, label boss, film-maker FlyLo has turned everything on its head all over again. ���I don���t think I���m capable of repeating myself,��� he...
View ArticleThe Life and Death of Austin Peralta
Theo Jemison By Mark McDermott On the last night of his life, pianist Austin Peralta sat in on a show at Little Tokyo jazz joint the Blue Whale and played, as he always did, as if his life depended...
View ArticleThundercat On Making Music Outside The Lines
Session musician Stephen Bruner has played bass in other people's bands for more than a decade. He can play metal, R&B, hip-hop, jazz. And he's been folding all that into his own music, which he...
View ArticleEclectic mix to nourish your neurons
When it comes to electronic music, the Brainfeeder label from Los Angeles is as hot as you get. Founded by producer Flying Lotus in 2008, the label has released killer albums by Samiyam, the Gaslamp...
View ArticleTwo nights in the life of Brainfeeder, LA's low end high-flyers
How did Brainfeeder Records turn a love of beats, jazz and the avant garde into an underground empire? Paul MacInnes joins their freak scene in LA to find out Three kings: Brainfeeder's key creatives...
View ArticleSan Francisco Nightlife Weekend Guide - Mar. 26th & 27th
Flying Lotus and Kode 9 come to the Mezzanine this weekend. Flyer provided by event promoters. Still recovering from Apoptygma Berzerk at the DNA or falling down more times than you can remember at The...
View ArticleDusted Reviews Artist: Lorn Album: Nothing Else Label: Brainfeeder Review...
Not content to be the most talked about producer in hip hop, Los Angeles electro-funk producer Flying Lotus has went and started himself a label. Not a vanity label, either - Brainfeeder Records is...
View ArticleKiller sound set to pack dance floor with nerds
Gone are the days when America’s West Coast met gangster rap and colour-specific hood wars. With the rise, and eventual dissemination, of NWA came freethinking rappers, taggers, dancers and more from...
View ArticleFlying Lotus and the power of dreams
Steven Ellison has been called the Jimi Hendrix of his generation. Here, the nephew of Alice Coltrane talks about drugs, his new album – and recording his mother's life-support machine Steven Ellison,...
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APOCALYPSE Thundercat Brainfeeder “Can you hear the sound of infinity?” Thundercat inquires near the end of Seven, a track on his second album, Apocalypse. As if to answer his own rhetorical question,...
View ArticleSonic bloom a powerful force
Maverick muso Flying Lotus, on the bill for Rhythm & Vines, talks to Jacqueline Smith. Flying Lotus, Steven Ellison by birth, took a special piece of New Zealand home with him last time he was...
View ArticleDusted Reviews Artist: Eskmo Album: Eskmo Label: Ninja Tune Review date: Oct....
Brendan Angelides may be of the famed beat collective Brainfeeder at this point, but he is not from it. The San Francisco-based musician has been releasing music as Eskmo since he first started...
View ArticleDusted Reviews Artist: Teebs Album: Ardour Label: Brainfeeder Review date:...
Mtendere Mandowa started painting album covers a few years ago, a hobby that eventually led to making beats as Teebs. Originally from New York, Mandowa's move to Southern California heavily informs his...
View ArticlePaper Tiger (Live EP Launch) tickets and listings
360 Club & Funkywormhole present the 'Worldwide Takeover EP' launch party for the Leeds-based band production crew. Live future music at its finest. Date: Friday 1st July 2011 Venue: The Library »...
View ArticleSamiyam
Out of all the abstracted takes on hip-hop to have emerged from Steve Ellison's (aka Flying Lotus) Brainfeeder label, and the Los Angeles scene that surrounds it, Sam Baker's feels most grounded in...
View ArticleFlying Lotus
ICA, London Steven Ellison AKA Flying Lotus For leather-clad simpletons, Spinal Tap had a fairly functional grasp of the concept of mathematical infinity. Their amps famously went up to 11, one louder...
View ArticleFlying Lotus Interviewed: Exploring The Esprit Of The LA Bass Lord's 2008
Though the Gregorian calendar insists that 2008 AD must continue its lope to inevitable close, it seems unfair to force a musical year so evasive to go down with its temporal ship. Anyone looking to...
View ArticleSonic Router 005 - A Dubstep Column For August
With all hopes of summer seemingly fading away until I sat down a week ago to conceptualize this column edition, it’s been a real struggle to concentrate with the sun blazing away outside; somewhat of...
View ArticleJazz and EDM are meeting on the dance floor
LOS ANGELES - The cavernous dance club in downtown L.A. is hopping, and the weekend is still a day away. The club is ordinarily a hotbed of thumping house music, but tonight, the headliner -...
View ArticleThe Gaslamp Killer (Brainfeeder/USA) with Crushington
Monday, 17 October 2011, 2:05 pm Press Release: Martyn Pepperell Madcap Touring in association with Ex.d presents The Gaslamp Killer (Brainfeeder/USA) with Crushington (NZ) *For the first time in close...
View ArticleDusted Reviews Artist: Thundercat Album: The Golden Age of the Apocalypse...
Boasting credentials that include a full-time stint in Suicidal Tendencies and side work with Snoop Dogg, Stephen Bruner, a.k.a. Thundercat, didn't have to release his solo record on Brainfeeder. And...
View ArticleTeebs
One of the most appealing aspects of the Los Angeles Brainfeeder collective, that loosely defined group of hip-hop producers surrounding scene luminary Flying Lotus, is that no two individuals within...
View ArticleFirst Listen: Flying Lotus, 'Cosmogramma'
The first time I heard Flying Lotus, I was watching the Cartoon Network, eating Cherry Garcia and waiting for the next episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, when an 8-bit fireball came bouncing through my...
View ArticleElectronica act Flying Lotus cleared for takeoff
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Before the critical success of sophomore album "Los Angeles," Flying Lotus was an underground artist crafting off-kilter electronica in his basement. Now the 26-year-old...
View ArticleFlying Lotus And The Rise Of 'Beat Music'
For those people who generally avoid music made on laptops, the name Flying Lotus may sound like a kung-fu move or a yoga position. But for those in tune with underground hip-hop, Flying Lotus is a...
View ArticleLost, With Laptops, in Psychedelic Space
THE Los Angeles electronic music producer Flying Lotus sees his new album, “Cosmogramma,” as something of a “space opera.” “It’s kind of a space epic,” he said, “very theatrical at times, only in the...
View ArticleEagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Flying Lotus on His Favorite Movies and His...
Theo Jemison[See also "Thundercat Emerges With His Debut, Co-produced by Flying Lotus,""Top Five Reasons Why Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma is the Best L.A. Album of the Year,""Flying Lotus Rising"]...
View ArticleThundercat
"Lots of people ask me about Thundercat, and how I come to know this guy. Thing is you've been hearing him for years and probably didn't even know it," suggested Flying Lotus prior to this much...
View ArticleTop Five Los Angeles Jazz Albums of 2011
See also *The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums of 2011 *Top Ten Los Angles Metal Albums of 2011 Despite what some may believe, Los Angeles has a rich jazz history. From Central Avenue to Hermosa Beach, early...
View Article>Hear Thundercat's Jazzy Electronic Album Golden Age of Apocalypse
Thundercat's new album, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, is a lush sonic mishmash. Photo: Theo Jemison As far as musicians go, Stephen Bruner isn’t your average cat. His father drummed with...
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