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Originally Posted by Mankycaaant
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12. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
I don't get it. I just don't get. I have listened to Los Angeles 4 maybe 5 times and I still cannot recognize a melody from it. In an age where great production is expected on every hip-hop record, is there any room for someone who just makes instrumental hip-hop to make waves within the industry?
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TNGHT
Madlib
J Dilla
DJ Shadow
etc
All make pleny of influential instrumental hip hop
Fly Lo doesn't make instrumentals exlusively either, check the production credits, son.
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2008: José James - Park Bench People (on the track "Visions of Violet")
2009: Declaime - Whole Wide World
2010: José James - Blackmagic
2010: Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer (on the track "Ancestors")
2010: Mike Bigga - Adult Swim Singles Program (on the track "Swimming")
2011: Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse
2011: Blu - NoYork! (on the tracks "Doin’ Nothin", "Everything Ok" and "Doin’ Something"
2012: "Lately" and "Lamented" on the Hodgy Beats Untitled EP
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Some fault genre classics like Illmatic for production qualities, so in an age where technology is at its most advanced and hip-hop at its most diverse, can I not fault Flying Lotus for just being boring?
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What is the connection here?
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I think ole Fly Lo knows himself that mediocre instrumental hip-hop is just not enough to suffice in this day in age, hence the Captain Murphy experiment.
I heard a few tracks from that album and it just sounded like a producer desperately trying to cling to relevancy.
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Sounded like an artist who drew inspiration from hodgy beats telling him he recorded most of his verses in less than 15 minutes. Check the pitchfork interview if you get a chance.
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Fly Lo may want to consider just laying the beats for others, because there's no doubt he's a talented producer, his beats on their own just aren't enough to cut mustard in a genre bursting with innovation and evolution.
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and this is why it was one of the worst records or the year?