Flying Lotus

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2010

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Flying Lotus is a Los Angeles-based musician. His critically-acclaimed music blends electronica with progressive hip-hop.

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0:55.0	It's the Sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:57.0	My guest is the genre crossing Los Angeles musician Flying Lotus.
1:01.5	I guess you would call Flying Lotus' music hip hop, except that most hip hop is dance music and Flying Lotus' music is.
1:09.5	And of course, most hip hop has rapping and Flying Lotus' music doesn't.
1:14.5	It doesn't seem right to call it electronic music, although it's composed in the way that electronic music is.
1:22.0	It's soulful, but it's at least as much sun raw as it is James Brown.
1:27.0	Here's a cut from his new album called Pattern Grid World.
1:52.0	The Sound of Young America is the sound of Flying Lotus' music.
1:56.5	The Sound of Young America is the sound of Flying Lotus' music.
1:59.5	The Sound of Young America is the sound of Flying Lotus' music.
2:03.5	The Sound of Young America is the sound of Flying Lotus' music.
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