June 23, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
The first computer I ever had the chance of using was my family's HP Compaq DC7100 running Windows XP and that clean yet primitive UI design had a very big impact on me...
June 22, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
I had all these strange pieces of audio, from conversations w/ my friends, snippets of old medical films, warped acoustic noise, and chaotic synthesized recordings, and they all struck me a certain way...
June 18, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
Music is emotion. Whether happy or sad, it's just a way of helping you deal with them and set the record straight about yourself...
June 9, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
Plus we're all having midlife crises and doing this was cheaper than buying a Miata or getting TRT therapy...
June 8, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
I’ve been lucky that I’ve always had more ideas for music than time to produce them all, so in the beginning, it was easy. I was releasing 15-20 tracks a year, and labels were eating them up...
May 17, 2022
Events
Events
Given JPEGMAFIA's notoriety our expectations were high for his live performance...
May 1, 2022
Events
Events
Headlining the event was non-other than Earl Sweatshirt of Odd Future fame. Earl's evolution as an artist has been fascinating to view, and we believe his change in trajectory came with his 2018 release titled Some Rap Songs...
April 10, 2022
Interviews
Interviews
夢の砂漠 explores a lot of feelings I’ve been having over the past year - mostly a lot of self-exploration and I wanted to convey this a long and ethereal album so that other people can travel through the ‘dream desert’ and explore all of these intense feelings themselves...
RANDOM
I hate narratives, messages, and themes, so this album is completely hollow. There is absolutely nothing inside of it...
What the f*** do you mean - You don't wanna suck my nuts? What the f*** do you mean - You don't wanna suck my nuts?
Because of Flying Lotus’s nature I knew the visuals at this live show would be postmodern abominations...
Nearly every Thursday night, we would park our cars at Comps and have a listening party for which ever rap album we chose to listen to when the clock struck midnight...
I don't remember that much about making the album...
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Obviously, it is much easier to keep in touch, exchange files and information. But nothing compares to the real organic work. That’s where the magic begins and it’s impossible to achieve it through the synthetic connection. Especially when the music is spontaneous and interactive...
We knew we wanted to create a mythological world for both ourselves and our audience to play in while listening...
I wanted it to feel like acceptance. Saying acceptance makes it feel a bit stiff, when really the vibe is like, f*** yeah everybody, hell yeah, and if you can’t get down with this, f*** off...
Basically, I wanted to live inside of trance music, so I wrote down my toxic feelings and bathed them all in sounds that felt like healing. There are dozens of horror stories in those lyrics and when I perform the songs I often want to cry, sometimes I do...
With any record I make, I am usually just trying to capture a vibe that's a mix of memories, unaddressed problems in my head, things that I like and then me trying to present them in an unusual way...