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[one_half last=”yes”]FLYING LOTUS
You’re Dead!
Release-Date: 06.10.2014
Label: Warp
Tracklist:
01. Theme
02. Tesla feat. Herbie Hancock
03. Cold Dead
04. Fkn Dead
05. Never Catch Me feat. Kendrick Lamar
06. Dead Man’s Tetris feat. Snoop Dogg and Captain Murphy
07. Turkey Dog Coma
08. Stirring
09. Coronus, The Terminator
10. Siren Song feat. Angel Deradoorian
11. Turtles
12. Ready Err Not
13. Eyes Above
14. Moment Of Hesitation
15. Descent Into Madness feat. Thundercat
16. The Boys Who Died In Their Sleep
17. Obligatory Cadence
18. Your Potential/The Beyond feat. Niki Randa
19. The Protest
NBHAP Rating: 4/5
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Actually, and according to music-scientists, You’re Dead is a model-record especially made for intellectual and always witty or a little ahead of Zeitgeist show-offs. You should hate it. Three Jazz improvisations, each about close to two minutes (but still rather below) with an incredibly unique root in Drum’N’Bass, serve as little overture. FLYING LOTUS takes that genre and changes its proportions into Jazz, with, never really turning it into, well, Jazz. As if a standard 5 piece was told to improvise and freak out at high pitch, but secretly sequenced by a MPC.
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Then the record breaks down and uses a soulful-slow skit, to lay KENDRICK LAMAR a funky bed for his meditations afterwards. It’s really fast, but soft at the same time. Dead Man’s Tetris then is a rough bouncer, like a horror-score, creating an atmosphere that’s actually quite common in rap music: The weirdo but extremely frightening clown, hollaring while creeping onto you. FLYING LOTUS invites, who else, SNOOP DOGG and Ellison’s alter ego CAPTAIN MURPHY to go over his monstrosity of a complex but discreet enough beat.
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Then again, well informed Jazz improvisation and rocket-science, before a fade out like a turned-back record transits into Coronus, the Terminator. A deep bass R&B gospel slowly shacking the habitual, before an even softer floating Siren Song calls you in. It’s disgusting how well arranged these nineteen songs are. Creating tension by using complex free moving structures as demanding interludes to lead in their highly elaborate dubby and trippy antipodes. From the sketchbook, in supremacy, smart, strange and grooving. Like that, You’re Dead becomes a record leaving you behind with hard decisions to make. Will you hate it? Because of its strive to perfection? Or will you love it, because it’s sucking you in nicely?
FLYING LOTUS celebrates the beauty of his own indecisiveness on ‘You’re Dead!’ as he extends in his own musical microcosm into all possible directions; a challenging listening experience.
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