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Stephen Ellis, the given name of Flying Lotus describes his post-everything amalgam of influences as “surrealist hip-hop” – but that barely skims the surface of his astonishing musical ability. The ambitious complexity of his albums 1983, Low End Theory and Cosmogramma are testament to the kind of innate talent that only comes along once or twice in a generation, channeling bass music, hip-hop, avant-garde jazz and space age psychedelia into wild new forms. A cornerstone artist on Warp, he’s also gained considerable acclaim for his own Brainfeeder label, worked with artists as varied as Thom Yorke and Erykha Badu, and topped just about every music poll worth topping at some point or other. A genuine auteur of modern electronic music.
