Flying Lotus
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Flying Lotus is one of those producers who creates an entire aesthetic world with the music he makes. Over the past 13 years he’s released four solo albums, and produced tracks for a ton of artists including Kendrick Lamar, Thom Yorke, and Thundercat. In this episode FlyLo talks to Rick Rubin about visiting his great aunt Alice Coltrane’s ashram, his peak creative hours, and why he directed a horror movie despite being scared to death by the Thriller video as a kid.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:12.3 | Just a quick note here. |
| 0:13.8 | You can listen to all of the music mentioned in this episode on our playlist which you |
| 0:17.7 | can find a link to in the show notes. |
| 0:20.6 | For licensing reasons, each time a song is referenced in this episode, you'll hear |
| 0:25.2 | this sound effect. |
| 0:28.2 | Alright, enjoy the episode. |
| 0:31.2 | Flying Lotus isn't one of those producers who just programs beats. |
| 0:35.0 | He creates an entire aesthetic world for the music he makes to live in. |
| 0:39.0 | Over the past 13 years, he's a masked and diverse body of work through the label he |
| 0:43.0 | started, Brain Feeder. |
| 0:44.9 | He's released four solo albums, produced tracks with Kendrick Lamar, Tom York, director |
| 0:49.2 | actor David Lynch, and the Climb featuring Thundercat. |
| 0:54.6 | Several innovation ones deep in Filos family. |
| 0:57.7 | His grandmother Marilyn McLeod wrote songs from Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, and other Motown |
| 1:02.2 | artists. |
| 1:03.2 | His great aunt, Alice Coltrane, married and played in John Coltrane's final bands, |
| 1:07.4 | then after his death released a slew of classic albums that seemed to grow in stature, every |
| 1:12.1 | passing year. |
| 1:13.1 | In this episode, Rick Rubin and Flying Lotus chop it up about visiting Alice Coltrane's |
| 1:17.6 | Ostromb as a kid. |
| 1:19.1 | Why his peak creative hours have changed over the years? |
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