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Flying Lotus has announced a new EP, BIG MAMA, due out March 6 via Brainfeeder. It’s his first release for the label, which he founded, and he says, “I think it was just time at this point to work with the label that I built and work more closely with the team that’s around me more. You know, we’ve been able to compete with some pretty big records in the world, we’ve been at the Grammys several times, and I think we’ve built a nice situation for ourselves, so why not? It’s about time, I think!”
FlyLo made BIG MAMA over two months after working on the soundtrack to his film Ash. “It was like being in this hyperbolic time chamber, having to make a whole soundtrack alone,” he says. “I felt like right after that I wanted to do anything but what I was just doing. So I started this project, and it felt like such a release to be able to have this place where I could just vent out some of my inner chaos.”
There’s no single from the EP yet, but speaking about its sound FlyLo says, “I wanted it to feel like being shot out of a cannon, just explosive, unpredictable energy. Like a fuckin’ computer gone awry. Like a machine that had just lost its mind.” He adds, “I wanted it to be free and feel alive. I think that was a big intention of mine with this record, just to think about it more like sound design and make something that felt unpredictable and maximal. As we get into a place where tracks are becoming more ‘perfect’ and things are becoming more sterile, I want to try to keep it interesting and try to keep bringing in things that are uniquely human to electronic music, which is, you know, becoming harder I guess.”
See the BIG MAMA cover art and tracklist below, and stay tuned for more.
FLYING LOTUS – BIG MAMA TRACKLIST
1. BIG MAMA
2. CAPTAIN KERNEL
3. ANTELOPE ONIGIRI
4. IN THE FOREST – DAY
5. BROBOBASHER
6. HORSE NUKE
7. PINK DREAM
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