Our rock + punk + screamo section explores various heavy & intense sounds expressed through different streams.
I manically decided to go to McDonalds, went on Instagram live and was just screaming the idea over and over, got back home still live and recorded it all to a click track, no beat, then made the beat after. A crazy moment that everyone from Anthony Fantano, to T-Pain, to Knxwledge reacted to and enjoyed thoroughly...
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...
I don't remember that much about making the album...
I think we all assembled by sheer proximity, the sheer desire to partake in a lot of substances, needing one core activity to tie us all together...
I would still argue that there is something deeply troubling about the “McMindfulness” that people are becoming more aware of - that is, mindfulness used in the service of improving productivity, well-being or focus...
I dunno if they directly influence the music, but I just really like videogames. Also our fanbase is 98% gamer...
We knew we wanted to create a mythological world for both ourselves and our audience to play in while listening...
Everything needs to make sense together. It's easy to create music that is overbearing when you have six instruments on stage. You have to make sure every single one of them is playing something that is contributing without smothering...
Tracking so many artists in the mainstream + underground it’s blatantly obvious who is going to blow up in the mainstream...
Because of Flying Lotus’s nature I knew the visuals at this live show would be postmodern abominations...
