Via: PITCHFORK

Los Angeles-based producer the Gaslamp Killer has a new EP, Death Gate, that’s set to drop October 12 on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint. The EP features a collaboration with Gonjasufi that you can check out below. In case your memory’s short, the pair also worked together on this year’s BNM’d solo LP from Gonjasufi, A Sufi and a Killer.

Posted by — Larry Fitzmaurice

DOWNLOAD: MP3 – The Gaslamp Killer ft. Gonjasufi “When I’m In Awe”

Via: Los Angeles Times | Pop & Hiss |

The birdman of Brainfeeder: Teebs premieres first single off ‘Ardour’

Flying Lotus has described Teebs’ music as sounding “the way ‘Avatar’ looks.” And those familiar with the 23-year-old visual artist and musician’s canvasses would be prone to concur.
Like the Teebs-painted album cover at right, his music is a yarn ball of intense colors and peculiar crevices. His last EP was titled “Tropics,” and it boasted the spectral beauty of his artwork, with beats that bloomed with pastel color. His sound is a Gordian knot, impossible to unravel but bright as agate.

It’s a balance of the baroque with the abstract, a collision between tangled futuristic projections and everyday objects. One of his best mixes was called “2 a.m. Wine,” and it captured Teebs’ ability to project an Ambien-addled aesthetic — a gauzy, gorgeous haze ideal for the witching hours.

His first single for his Brainfeeder debut LP, “Ardour,” expands on these ideas, and illustrates why it’s one of the most anticipated records within the Los Angeles beat community. Since moving from New York several years ago, the producer-artist born Mtendere Mandowa has been one of the city’s brightest prospects, a member of the My Hollow Drum collective, a frequent Dublab guest and a Low End Theory staple. Additionally, BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs included one of his tracks on her “Wild Angels” compilation.

“Ardour” is slated to be released Oct. 19th. It figures to be worth marking your calendar in advance.

– Jeff Weiss

DOWNLOAD: MP3 Teebs – “Arthur’s Birds”

VIA: WARP RECORDS

Flying Lotus – Pattern+Grid World
WAP308 – 20/21 September 2010
CD / Digital / Vinyl (including free poster by Theo Ellsworth)

Tracklist
1. Clay
2. Kill Your Co-Workers
3. PieFace
4. Time Vampires
5. Jurassic Notion/M Theory
6. Camera Day
7. Physics For Everyone!

As postmodernist space odysseys go, Flying Lotus’ Cosmogramma has confidently weaved itself into the lineage of Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra’s Strange Strings, Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell To Earth and Afrika Bambaata’s Planet Rock…

While Cosmogramma is a monolithic convergence of 20th and 21st century musical forms, high in concept and wide in musical collaboration, Pattern+Grid World pulls the focus back to Steven Ellison and his machines. These machines are speaking (and possibly looking as well, judging by the EP’s cover) from the go, as “Clay” introduces itself in a fog of synth and vocoder and gives way to one of the many surprises here, the schizophrenic ping-ponging electro of “Kill Your Co-Workers”. Drenched in alternating melodies, it’s a synthetic counterpart to the grand string and harp arrangements of Cosmogramma, making acclaimed illustrator Theo Ellsworth’s subtly psychedelic cover image of vision-through-noise all the more intimate.

When Flying Lotus records hit their stride, all buttons labeled “pause” and “stop” disappear, and this one is no different. “Pie Face” is led by icy keys that could almost be mistaken for classic grime, before the stoned plastic marching band steps in. “Time Vampires” amazingly lands somewhere between vintage DJ Premier and Lee Hazelwood, while the stripped back bass and drum explorations of “Jurassic Notion/M Theory” are as shamanic and ceremonial as anything you’re likely to hear come out of California. If “Camera Day” brings to mind a certain crew of dungeon-dwelling ATLiens, it won’t come as much of a surprise that Killer Mike found its syrupy bounce recently inspiring.

Much of the messages surrounding Cosmogramma’s release as well as reportage on the world’s ever-emerging beat scenes has painted a picture of Flying Lotus as a patriarchal figure blazing the trail for scores of young artists with new conceptual notions of what can be done with a drum machine and a dream. While this notion is certainly not inaccurate, it sometimes overshadows the fact that FlyLo is also an incredibly singular entity. However, as “Physics For Everyone!” stutters to a close, if you listen closely you might just make out the sound of another kid in his room somewhere in the world, anxiously tapping out his first beat.

LORN – “None An Island”

Out 13th September 2010.

Lorn aka Marcos Ortega returns with a new EP from his critically acclaimed debut album, “Nothing Else.”

One of the standout tracks from a breakthrough record, “None An Island” combines Lorn’s trademark overt emotionalism, brutality and bleakness into something transcendentally beautiful. Brainfeeder labelmate Samiyam then takes “Brainwaves” and converts it into a lowriding, limping journey into paranoia and fear. Lorn ups the ante yet again by returning with two new original tracks, “Never Enough,” which uses a distorted, rasping, alien voice to syncopate its rhythms, and “Until There Is No End,” which shows that Ortega’s grasp of melody is never compromised by the sheer heaviness of his tracks.

A fantastic accompaniment to his album and a further delving into his sound, “None An Island” strongly suggests we’ll be hearing much more from Lorn for a long time to come…

1. NONE AN ISLAND (RADIO EDIT)
2. BRAINWAVES (SAMIYAM X LORN)
3. NEVER ENOUGH
4. UNTIL THERE IS NO END

LORN : NOTHING ELSE from StrangeLoop on Vimeo.

LORN – ‘TOMORROW’
ALBUM : NOTHING ELSE
MASTERING : CLARK
LABEL : BRAINFEEDER
DIR. STRANGELOOP

RELEASE DATE : JUNE 7th, 2010

CONCEPT : ADAM STOVER
PRODUCED BY BRAINFEEDER &
THE INSTITUTE FOR CINEMA STUDIES

All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?
- John Milton, Paradise Lost

“My answer to that,” explains Lorn, having quoted the words of Satan to his lieutenant Beelzebub, “is ‘Nothing Else.’” Which is one way to explain that this 23 year old “from the middle of nowhere in Illinois” is not keen on compromise.

The second artist album from Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint is a deep, deep, dark and uncompromising suite of music. The only Brainfeeder artist to neither come from or ever to have lived in LA, Lorn has already developed an international following for his music. Now, with “Nothing Else” the musician and artist reveals his debut full length. Epic, melancholic and brutal, it’s a record which the listener has to be prepared to immerse themselves in. The rewards make it worth the effort. From the fairground dramatics of “None An Island” through the soundtrack sweep and military momentum of “Army of Fear,” the discombobulated atmospherics of “Bretagne,” the sheer brute force of the bass on “Automaton,” the acid-fried detailing on “Voids” 1 and 2, the woozy migraine-simulacra of “Tomorrow,” the off-centre melodic catchiness of “Glass & Silver” and “Cherry Moon,” the deconstructed electro of “Greatest Silence” and on to the utterly uncompromsing conclusion of “What’s The Use,” where an underwater hip hop break smashes up against Hammond and the ghost of a human voice, this is a record which feels like its been hewn from stone. Albeit electronic stone.

A remarkable, transcendent achievement, no one who knows anything about him is going to claim that Lorn’s life has been easy and nor is his music. Instead it’s raw, emtional, angry, beautiful and real.

(BF007) LORN – NOTHING ELSE
Mastered by Clark (Warp Records)

Grandfather
None an Island
Army of Fear
Bretagne
Automaton
Void I
Void II
Tomorrow
Glass & Silver
Cherry Moon
Greatest Silence
What’s the Use

COSMOGRAMMA

Friday May 14th
FLYING LOTUS (A/V set)
RAS G
SAMIYAM
DR. STRANGELOOP
KUTMAH
JEREMIAH JAE

Saturday May 15th
∞ (Flying Lotus with live band)
RAVI COLTRANE
THE GASLAMP KILLER
GONJASUFI
MATTHEWDAVID

Visuals by Flying Lotus, Dr. Strangeloop and Timeboy
Sound reinforcement by Pure Filth
Live screenprinting by Hit+Run
Presented by Flying Lotus and Daddy Kev

“I met [Dr. Strangeloop] for the very first time last week in LA, having been a great admirer of his work for the last couple years. I can tell you he is seriously involved in pioneering the next step in the evolution of performance, fusing sonics, narrative, and visuals into an overwhelming hyper-sensory experience.” -Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC1

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The incredible Mary Anne Hobbs just featured an exclusive audio-visual edit from my ‘2010‘ project on BBC1, accompanying a unique mix of the soundtrack. ‘2010 : [or] How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Technological Singularity‘ is an ever-evolving avant-sci-fi narrative about a dystopia alternate universe where an AI-deity searches for transcendence in an archaic laptop. It had its International premier at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and its Los Angeles premier at the Brainfeeder Sessions last month. It changes every time I perform it in a live-context, and it is composed of all-original music and visuals.

Some of the mandalic images were created in collaboration with artist Leigh J. McCloskey, the visionary painter behind Flying Lotus’s phenomenal ‘Cosmogramma’ album artwork. A limited edition run of 300 signed copies of ‘2010‘ will be available through the Institute for Cinema Studies, this run will include a full-version of the film, full soundtrack, b-sides, artwork, and more. The person who receives the copy number #2010 will get special unreleased material, b-sides, and the opportunity to destroy my television set. Enjoy!

2010 – audio-visual mix for Mary Anne Hobbs

2010 – soundtrack mix for BBC1

2010 – limited edition copies at ICS

“This singular undertaking is entirely typical of Daedelus’s fertile, butterfly imagination – a mini-album conceived as an imaginary soundtrack to the Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1899. Thankfully, LA’s Alfred Darlington approaches this self-imposed task from an oblique angle. Hoary old kung-fu movie samples are conspicuously by their absence, and it’s difficult to discern any overtly Chinese touches at all. Instead, there are eight characteristically mellifluous compositions that combine warm, melodic lyricism with simple but subtle arrangements, skipping blithely across stylistic boundaries. Daedelus neatly combines vintage textures, skittering beats and plaintive oboe for his scene-setting opener, and then goes on to introduce elegant flamenco picking (”Tidal Waves Uprising”), airy bossa nova (”Order Of The Golden Dawn”) and even reedy stylophones (”Succumbing”). Some of the tracks are little more than sketches, but there’s enough imagination on display across these 25 minutes to put many larger scale works to shame.”

- WIRE MAGAZINE

“The usual frenetic on-record personality of eternal gentleman Daedelus couldn’t be more removed from his humble, gracious self, but this time his sounds are more reflective of their maker. Righteous Fists Of Harmony, the L.A.-based producer Alfred Darlington’s first EP for Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label, is all about dignified dream sequences and romantic strings colliding with hypnotic electronic rhythms, all the while pointing to the core of Daedelus’s calm and surprisingly zen being.”

- CMJ

“The upcoming album from Daedelus is a study in juxtapositions: 19th-century China rubs up against the tele-technological future, organic sonic textures play with electronics, and hope is mixed with an uncertainty about a sinister future. Righteous Fists of Harmony is a sonic tribute to the thousands of Chinese martial artists who died during the Boxer Rebellion, as well as a musing about our society’s reliance on contemporary technologies. Coming out on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label, the record continues Daedelus’ claim as one of the more intellectually engaged heads in contemporary electronic music.”

- XLR8R

“The ridiculously talented Daedelus offers his latest exploits for Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label. In fine style, Daedelus constructs an unpredictable and winding narrative starting with the mini-epic ‘An Armada Approaches’, swelling from craftily harmonised beginnings to become a scene of surging strings and pitching hiphop rhythms. ‘Tidal Waves Uprising’ follows with impossibly strummed guitar strings before arriving at the yachting synth vistas of ‘The Open Hand Avows. ‘Order Of The Golden Dawn’ offers a lush 4-minutes of tropicalia more in tune with his Long Lost project, carried through with the breathy vocals and Latin handclaps of ‘Succumbing To’ and the echoic chamber pop of ‘Stampede Me’. This is a lush trip that we’d recommend to any fans of his many, many projects. Brilliant.”

- BOOMKAT

“Daedelus, known for his fascination with the Victorian era and its costumes, picks up this theme for his album to create a surreal soundtrack to these historic events. He imagines the events from the idealistic perspective of the Boxers, creating dreamlike soundscapes filled with soft acoustic guitars and melancholic strings. While mostly instrumental, some of the tracks feature seductive vocals, like the samba-esque “Order Of The Golden Dawn” with Darlington’s wife Laura. Or “Succumbing To”, a track that might as well be taken from one of Björk’s earlier albums. As with most concept albums, the result is very consistent and that’s what makes Righteous Fists the best work from Daedelus I’ve come across. Running for only 26 minutes, it leaves you with the wish for more – like a pleasant nap on a summer day.”

- NUTRIOT.COM

Daedelus “Righteous Fists of Harmony” from DestroyRockMusic Inc. on Vimeo.

ALBUM RELEASE DATE: MARCH 23 2010

Music : Daedelus ( myspace.com/daedelusdarling )
Song : “Fin de Siècle”
Album : Righteous Fists of Harmony
Label : Brainfeeder ( brainfeedersite.com )
Director: Clay Lipsky ( goclaygo.com / destroyrockmusic.com )
DP/Editing/Animation : Clay Lipsky
Starring : Laura Darlington (The Long Lost)
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In this release for Flying Lotus’ up-and-coming label Brainfeeder,
Daedelus presents a soundtrack-of-sorts to the Boxer Rebellion. What,
you ask, could make such ancient history an inspiration for modern
electronics? Well, Daedelus has found a strange relevance to our
modern malady in these epic events of long ago…

After seventy years of China’s opium-related subjugation by Queen
Victoria and her allies, a force of resistance fighters — termed
“Boxers” by the British — rose to the challenge in 1898. Calling
themselves “The Righteous Fists of Harmony,” this secret society of
martial artists felt they held magical powers: they believed
themselves bulletproof, able to fly, and capable of raising the dead
(who would then fight alongside them). And so began the brief Boxer
Rebellion; three years later 100,000 Boxers had fallen, their magic
helpless against the cutting-edge machinery of war. The British
prevailed only to face ultimate defeat, as their empire rapidly
declined.

Daedelus endeavors to compose a requiem for the end — of beliefs, of
lives, and of an era. This elegy for a bygone battle sheds light on
our own contemporary conundrum: will our faith in modernity be our
downfall? Are we blinded by this age of wonders, doomed to be
destroyed by our ingenious inventions? Although Daedelus’ music has
always juxtaposed organic and electronic elements, they war as never
before on “Righteous Fists of Harmony,” a portrait of a tumultuous era
that came crashing to a close.

DAEDELUS – “Righteous Fists of Harmony” Tracklist:
BF006
23 MARCH 2010
Heavy Weight Vinyl / Digital

1. An Armada Approaches
2. Tidal Waves Uprising
3. The Open Hand Avows
4. Order Of The Golden Dawn (featuring Laura Darling)
5. The Finishing of a Thing
6. Succumbing To (featuring Kid A)
7. Stampede Me (with Amir Yaghmai)
8. Fin De Siècle

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone
as we’re approaching this new year, I felt it was time to let go of some things that have been gathering dust. Some old things, and some new things, I tried to pick out tracks that I know yall haven’t heard yet so there should be surprises around every turn.

can’t believe i’ve been making tracks for over 10 years now..That said, there’s so much to learn still.

I hope you all enjoy this mix. Thanks to the Gaslamp Killer for doing an incredible job on this.

Can’t wait for you all to hear my album ‘Cosmogramma’ coming out May 4th 2010 on Warp Records.

Enjoy
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Art (Flying Lotus) Layout (Ques)

GLK ON PITCHFORK: http://pitchfork.com
GLK ON XLR8R: http://www.xlr8r.com

THE GASLAMP KILLER – MY TROUBLED MIND EP from ABCNT.INFO on Vimeo.

The Gaslamp Killer – My Troubled Mind EP (RED) from (((∆))) on Vimeo.

dr. strangeloop : are we lost mammals of an approaching transcendental epoch?

arriving june 30th

Are We Lost Mammals of an Approaching Transcendental Epoch? from Dr. StrangeLoop on Vimeo.

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