Posts tagged Flying Lotus

Viral Radio 5 Year Anniversary: C_DR_C

Viral Radio, the Amsterdam based independent network for music futurism, is turning 5 years old this Saturday. Over these years, ‘the most cutting-edge event in Amsterdam’ (Time Out Amsterdam) has seen brain-tingling performances by a long thread of scifi contemporaries, from Flying Lotus, Kode9 and Hudson Mohawke, to Ben Frost, Colin Stetson and Stephen O’Malley.

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Viral Radio 5 Year Anniversary: Vladislav Delay

Viral Radio, the Amsterdam based independent network for music futurism, is turning 5 years old this Saturday. Over these years, ‘the most cutting-edge event in Amsterdam’ (Time Out Amsterdam) has seen brain-tingling performances by a long thread of scifi contemporaries, from Flying Lotus, Kode9 and Hudson Mohawke, to Ben Frost, Colin Stetson and Stephen O’Malley.

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FACT mix 297 is an ominous session of clouded-over pop by Blue Daisy. He will play at the Viral Radio Weekend in OT301 on 25 November. From FACT Magazine website: “Hailing from North London, Blue Daisy hasn’t released much – until this year’s debut album, The Sunday Gift, he’d put his name to four singles and one split, all on Black Acre – but he’s made it count, quietly honing a smoky form of pop music that owes as much to back room ’90s icons like Portishead, Tricky and, going further back, the Cocteau Twins as it does the structural freedom of Flying Lotus and Samiyam’s twisted hip-hop. The Sunday Gift is, frankly, the best thing Blue Daisy’s done by miles. A mostly collaborative project, it finds him assembling a small team of trusted vocalists and neatly sidestepping the beat scene or dubstep associations that some cast on him; unlike the work of many of his peers, this is genuinely dark, harsh music that barely makes sense outside the night hours, and Blue Daisy doesn’t need to sample speeches from sci-fi films to prove it. His FACT mix, sub-titled ‘Soundtrack of the Night Sky’, doesn’t have a tracklist, but it’s in the same vein as the album: downcast pop, haunted hip-hop and tons of reverb. It’s great, basically. Download it below, and read the following Q&A with its maker while you do so.” (via FACT mix 297: Blue Daisy – FACT magazine: music and art)

FACT mix 297 is an ominous session of clouded-over pop by Blue Daisy. He will play at the Viral Radio Weekend in OT301 on 25 November.

From FACT Magazine website: “Hailing from North London, Blue Daisy hasn’t released much – until this year’s debut album, The Sunday Gift, he’d put his name to four singles and one split, all on Black Acre – but he’s made it count, quietly honing a smoky form of pop music that owes as much to back room ’90s icons like Portishead, Tricky and, going further back, the Cocteau Twins as it does the structural freedom of Flying Lotus and Samiyam’s twisted hip-hop.

The Sunday Gift is, frankly, the best thing Blue Daisy’s done by miles. A mostly collaborative project, it finds him assembling a small team of trusted vocalists and neatly sidestepping the beat scene or dubstep associations that some cast on him; unlike the work of many of his peers, this is genuinely dark, harsh music that barely makes sense outside the night hours, and Blue Daisy doesn’t need to sample speeches from sci-fi films to prove it.

His FACT mix, sub-titled ‘Soundtrack of the Night Sky’, doesn’t have a tracklist, but it’s in the same vein as the album: downcast pop, haunted hip-hop and tons of reverb. It’s great, basically. Download it below, and read the following Q&A with its maker while you do so.”

(via FACT mix 297: Blue Daisy – FACT magazine: music and art)

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Total recall: Dabrye ‘Two/Three’ (Ghostly, 2006). Dabrye is one of the originators of early 21st century rap and beat futurism. His Two/Three album paved the way for the likes of Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke and Rustie. Dabrye has been on top of our wishlist for years now, and we hope he will make it over to Amsterdam one day. “Dabrye’s production containing (…) a range and innovation that far outstrips anything else around.” The Guardian “This is pretty much how you imagined rap would sound in 2006.” FACT magazine Listen to the album on Spotify.

Total recall: Dabrye ‘Two/Three’ (Ghostly, 2006). Dabrye is one of the originators of early 21st century rap and beat futurism. His Two/Three album paved the way for the likes of Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke and Rustie. Dabrye has been on top of our wishlist for years now, and we hope he will make it over to Amsterdam one day.

“Dabrye’s production containing (…) a range and innovation that far outstrips anything else around.” The Guardian

“This is pretty much how you imagined rap would sound in 2006.” FACT magazine

Listen to the album on Spotify.

King Midas Sound: 'Without You' Tracklisting - Forthcoming on Hyperdub

Quality list of contributors.

Viral Radio ♥ Los Angeles

Los Angeles has for years been one of the most futurist electronic music cities on this planet. But even for a city of the quality and quantity as LA, 2011 has been an outstanding year of releases and performances.

Behind the household names of Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Gaslamp Killer, Ras G, Samiyam, Daddy Kev and Nosaj Thing, swarms a myriad of boutique musicians as Baths, Shlohmo, Free the Robots, Matthewdavid, Jonwayne, Asura, Kone and ELOS - and there are many more.

A grand transatlantic salute to Brainfeeder, Alpha Pup, Non Projects, FoF, Leaving, and all the other labels holding it down in Los Angeles, for staying the course in supporting and sharing Zeitgeist surfing electronic music.

2011 has been your year. We look forward to seeing all of our friends in Amsterdam soon again.

Clark played live at the second Viral Radio event at Trouw Amsterdam on 3 April 2009. Those first events were all stellar: Kode9 & the Spaceape, then Clark, followed by Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer and Samiyam. Amazing events in an incredible venue.

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Flying Lotus ‘Camera Day’, from his new EP Pattern+Grid World.