Flying Lotus - You're Dead!

I agree.

You're Dead is the only FlyLo album I've heard, so I can't make any comparisons to his previous work, but what I do know is that this is an absolutely killer record. One of my favourites from 2014.

Also, I recently heard that Ennio Morricone was involved somehow. Is this true?

he sampled him?

  On 9/17/2015 at 12:05 PM, valleyinaire said:

You're Dead is the only FlyLo album I've heard, so I can't make any comparisons to his previous work, but what I do know is that this is an absolutely killer record. One of my favourites from 2014.

 

Also, I recently heard that Ennio Morricone was involved somehow. Is this true?

You owe it to yourself to listen to Cosmogramma, which is still future as a mofo.

  On 9/18/2015 at 12:30 AM, Candiru said:

 

  On 9/17/2015 at 12:05 PM, valleyinaire said:

You're Dead is the only FlyLo album I've heard, so I can't make any comparisons to his previous work, but what I do know is that this is an absolutely killer record. One of my favourites from 2014.

 

Also, I recently heard that Ennio Morricone was involved somehow. Is this true?

You owe it to yourself to listen to Cosmogramma, which is still future as a mofo.

 

I've always said to myself that Cosmogramma will be the next one to check out. It's somewhere on a very long checklist of records that have passed me by over the years!

  On 9/17/2015 at 12:05 PM, valleyinaire said:

 

Also, I recently heard that Ennio Morricone was involved somehow. Is this true?

I always assumed it was Meredith Monk he sampled on Turtles because of the voice and the title (nudge to Turtle Dreams?) but Blank on here corrected me, it was Morricone!

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/304724/Flying-Lotus-Turtles-Ennio-Morricone-Piume-Di-Cristallo/

Flying Lotus, Shabazz Palaces, Thundercat Team Up as WOKE

http://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2015/

Cosmogramma is probably in my top 20 all time records.

I don't really like this album though, I'm not sure why exactly. Doesn't match the standard on Cosmogramma.

I still haven't been able to get into this album myself, and I love his previous stuff... I've wondered if it's because I'm starting to get sick of Thundercat and the way FlyLo incorporates him into just about every track these days. Thundercat is talented for sure, but his style can be overly busy sometimes and can seem to crowd up a track that could perhaps use more restraint and minimal approach.

With that said, I'm definitely going to check out this collab project.

  On 9/28/2015 at 7:22 PM, vincentvc said:

Flying Lotus, Shabazz Palaces, Thundercat Team Up as WOKE

 

http://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2015/

just a single track, or they got more planned?

Remastering an album a year after releasing it? Weird move.

I'm glad he did that

His albums are sometimes needlessly harsh-sounding

Especially this one

I love me some Lo-fi

But it seems like he goes out of his way to make stuff painful to listen to

I can barely listen to You're Dead before fatigue sets in

It's stuffy and claustrophobic

Like it doesn't breathe properly or something

(Does that make sense to anyone?)

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Well yeah, it's super squashed in parts with all that compression --least dynamic jazz album of all time! I do find that sort of interesting, since it's the opposite of what I normally associate with that genre. But it will be cool to hear it in a more conventional, musical light too.

Conspiracy time that it's vinyl mastering just relabelled / resold as "remaster"

this album was retarded bad

def has pacing issues or some weird ocd shit going on. half the tracks have no time to sink into.

  On 10/10/2015 at 10:38 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Well yeah, it's super squashed in parts with all that compression --least dynamic jazz album of all time! I do find that sort of interesting, since it's the opposite of what I normally associate with that genre. But it will be cool to hear it in a more conventional, musical light too.

This got me thinking...

Some of my favorite jazz albums from the 60's

Are actually pretty compressed

(Partly down to recording to tape, but also just the general practice of tracking everything through LA-2A's or whatever to manage levels)

Whereas these days with jazz records there is an OCD-like preoccupation with "naturalism"

(Just as with classical music)

Not to mention live jazz records

(Which are often just bootlegs, released officially)

Where there's often extreme ducking

So when I imagine someone like Elvin Jones in my head

I hear tons of compression

(Not to mention the not-so-occasional clipping during his solos)

Anyways, with FlyLo, it's not the compression pe se that bothers me

It's just that the compression doesn't breathe naturally

It sounds clenched and choked

He should really have someone else mix his records for him

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This shitty album is still shitty. Tried listening a bit today.

Nope.

FlyLo to his career after this album: You're Dead!

i listened to this once or twice and then blew it up with an explosive, this is coming from a long time fan

oh come on guys, it is okai!

If I weren't going through such a long list of discogs and new releases right now I'd listen to YD! again and argue something in its favor. But alas, my musical plate is full at the moment. I do remember it being awesome though. You guys are probably just trippin'.

i think my main gripe with it (and this goes for Until the quiet comes) (and of course, this is just my personal preference)

is the lack of cohesiveness in the styles and overall album flow. as much as i really (REALLY) like some of the album, i'm never actually in the mood for listening to the album cos it jumps so heavily from rampant upbeat to chill to ambient to midtempo (etc. etc. etc.) and does so in a really frantic, un-listener friendly kind of way.

u could say cosmogramma is even more extreme, but at least cosmogramma is consistentally extreme, where as you're dead and UTQC is just a whole lot of everything thrown in at once.

i wouldn't try and argue that its a terrible album or anything, i think it's a pretty good album and to anyone on the fence about it, it really comes down to just listening to it and making up your own mind. but for me, it's the pacing! what the hell's going on with the pacing :|

also.. i find it pretty lame that people who bought You're dead originally aren't given free copies of this new version of the album, and that it's blocked behind a $10 price tag.

the bleep description even says "Warp do the right thing and bundle the sought-after instrumentals alongside the original incredible album."

Warp do the right thing by charging people who bought the album to cough up more money to buy it again a mere year later ??

*scratches head*

pretty weird and kinda lame move, i'll just stick with my original copy