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Flying Lotus is a promising aberration for Warp Records and he will be one for your ears as well. A laptop musician and music producer, FlyLo is most obviously influenced by electronic, hip hop and many other genres of music of the African Diaspora however there are a vast array of innuendos in his sound. Currently, hyping up cosmopolitan crowds from London to Tokyo, he attributes Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim as his first major platform.

There are Centaurian distinctions amongst the characteristics and manifestations that blend into Flying Lotus: a resident of a desert commune; his fingers, bedecked in heavy and intricate silver jewelry from India; his swagger (versus style) has a gothic vapor; filmmaking is his avocation; 16- to 64-bit gaming and its era informs his aesthetic; and still Flying Lotus is a young man born into a great family (The Coltranes) noted for its musical talent and spiritual purpose.

There seems to be an inverse relationship between his growing popularity and shrinking ego. The space that many musicians fill with the pomp and circumstance of an inflated image and oversized marketing team, FlyLo fills with the gravitas of his talent and the mystique of musical elevation