L.A. EP 2 X 3

Flying Lotus | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: November 24, 2008
• Label: Warp Records
• Copyright: (C) 2008 Warp Records Limited
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• ASIN: B001LRENUY
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,981 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very pleased!, August 6, 2009

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C. Browne "cbmuzik" (Wash, DC) - See all my reviews
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This is a great remix EP of Flying Lotus Los Angeles album. The tracks have a great sound, flow and workmanship to them that helps you understand how serious these guys take their craft and their followers who have remixed their already hot original tunes. A must have if you like Flying Lotus!

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2.0 out of 5 stars listen closely and you can hear the death rattle of glitch techno, March 2, 2009

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Conan the Reviewer "discerning consumer" (DC area) - See all my reviews

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For the most part, I found this EP of Flying Lotus remixes dull and uninspired. Though it contains occasional moments of beauty (i.e., "Camel") and even a couple of hooks (the chorus of "Grapesicles" for example), there is not much to sink your teeth into here. To be fair, most of the original mixes were pretty dull and uninspired to begin with, and some of the remixes included here offer improvements (again, "Camel"). However, some of the featured DJs succeed only in taking an already weak song and making it worse. The original version of "RobertaFlack," for instance, might not be so bad if the beat didn't sound like two out-of-sink records playing at once; yet Mike Slott only butchers it further by adding what sounds like a third out-of-sink beat to the mix.

In keeping with the original mixes, most of the beats on this EP sound clumsily inaccessible, as if spawned in the course of a forty minute collaboration between Burial (the most overrated producer of the last decade) and a rhythmically challenged cousin of Squarepusher. Ras G's remix of "Sleepy Dinosaur," for example, which was a throwaway track to begin with, sounds so crappy you'll skip it every time, guaranteed. And that song is not altogether misrepresentative of the rest of the EP.

The remixes, like the originals, are needlessly bogged down by an overabundance of grit and static, haphazardly scattered about in what can only be described as a cheap attempt to add depth and texture to the music. Taking a different approach in his remix of "Auntie's Lock/Infinitum," Quarta330 adds some melodic synth lines to the mix, but his efforts only result in a clumsy and contrived determination to sound precious. In short, most of the remixes on this EP come off sounding like amateurish, half-finished Fruity Loops projects undertaken by someone who's never picked up a musical instrument in his/her life. That said, it's still better than Burial's "Untrue" (see my review of that album--if you can tolerate more blithely insensitive criticism).