48. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (2008)
There's still a long way to go for Steve Ellison, but soon he'll be a household name on Warp Records and up there with Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada and Squarepusher. Like Prefuse 73, Flying Lotus brings a new dimension to hip-hop with laptop experimentalism and it really is either the end or the future of "rap". There were quite a few times when my old room-mate would walk in and be like "Holy shit! What is this?" counfounded that these sounds had been produced for 'Los Angeles'. What followed was one of those classic music buff debates about genre and he reasoned that this wasn't hip-hop at all, and I put across that it certainly has some elements there in this mutant genre and that we can't just pigeonhole it. Best just to nod ones head and try not to be confounded, but it's hard.
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