Flying Lotus (mortal name Steven Ellison) is one of the true geniuses in the modern electronic music scene, having risen from making background beats for Adult Swim to releasing a masterpiece, the space-jazz-electro odyssey known as Cosmogramma. It remains one of the most important pieces of music I've ever listened to in my life and I firmly believe it will come to be remembered as a true game-changer in our current era that sees so much repetition and complacency. [Previous raving over his music]
Ellison was also a film student before making it into the music industry, and as such his music videos further his inimitable artistic vision by blurring the line between the two mediums to create new entities greater than simply the sum of their parts.
His newest video comes for my personal favorite track on Cosmogramma, "Zodiac Shit." Those words are probably the best and only way to try and describe the music for lack of any better metaphor, and the track perfectly personifies his signature style. The Lilfuchs-produced video does its job and simply takes the song to that next metaphysical level. Check it out:
More FlyLo vids after the jump
"MmmHmm"
"Kill Your Coworkers"
Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-Workers from beeple on Vimeo.
