Four years ago, LA Weekly called Steven Ellison’s music “spiritual electronica.” Today, in the wake of his fifth release, Your Dead!, the artist known as Flying Lotus is still just as difficult to categorize. The experimental producer and beat-making virtuoso is known for creating hard-to-describe musical landscapes in the tradition of predecessors J-Dilla and Madlib. At the same time, Ellison is doing his own thing. This couldn’t be more clear than in the bizarre and soulful track “Coronus, The Terminator,” off the new record.
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