{"id":223802,"date":"2026-02-18T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=223802"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:26:27","slug":"testing-flying-lotus-music-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/testing-flying-lotus-music-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Flying Lotus&#8217; Music Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ij2QNhsFZbQ?si=ntzbDrUUA8-d4lns\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Steven Ellison, known by his stage name Flying Lotus, is a record producer, DJ, filmmaker and rapper from Los Angeles. His music sits somewhere between hip-hop, jazz, electronic, and something totally unclassifiable &#8211; it\u2019s experimental, but never cold. <\/p>\n<p>As the founder of the record label Brainfeeder, he\u2019s helped shape an entire scene built around boundary-pushing sound, and his own projects always feel like they\u2019re pulling from the past and the future at the same time. <\/p>\n<p>The playlist moves through Madvillain memories of bus rides to Amoeba, Earl Sweatshirt and the early Odd Future energy in LA, Sun Ra\u2019s philosophy of space, and Burial &#8211; a record that only fully clicked once FlyLo heard it in the cold rain of the UK, suddenly realizing it was the soundtrack to an entire city. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"223806\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/testing-flying-lotus-music-knowledge\/flying-lotus-01-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Flying-Lotus-01-1.avif\" data-orig-size=\"1848,962\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Flying-Lotus-01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Flying-Lotus-01-1-540x281.avif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Flying-Lotus-01-1-1024x533.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Flying-Lotus-01-1-540x281.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"281\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-223806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Flying-Lotus-01-1-540x281.avif 540w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Flying-Lotus-01-1-1024x533.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Flying-Lotus-01-1-768x400.avif 768w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Flying-Lotus-01-1-1536x800.avif 1536w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Flying-Lotus-01-1.avif 1848w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Flying-Lotus-01-1.avif 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Ellison, known by his stage name Flying Lotus, is a record producer, DJ, filmmaker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-WdI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}