Flying Lotus is the founder of the record label Brainfeeder.
18 Facts About Flying Lotus
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Flying Lotus has produced much of the bumper music on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block.
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Flying Lotus contributed remixes for fellow Plug Research artists including Mia Doi Todd.
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In 2012, Flying Lotus began rapping under the persona Captain Murphy, based on the Sealab 2021 character of the same name.
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Flying Lotus was born Steven Ellison on October 7,1983, in Los Angeles, California.
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Flying Lotus is the grandnephew of the late jazz pianist Alice Coltrane, whose husband was saxophonist John Coltrane.
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Flying Lotus sent some in, under the name Flying Lotus and was accepted.
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Flying Lotus released his debut studio album 1983 on October 3,2006.
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Flying Lotus released his debut EP, the six-track Reset on October 1,2007.
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In 2008 Flying Lotus released Los Angeles, a 17-track album dedicated to his home city.
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In 2010, Flying Lotus collaborated with the Ann Arbor Film Festival in the performance of a live scoring of the 1962 avant-garde film Heaven and Earth Magic.
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Flying Lotus was chosen by Battles to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that it co-curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England, UK.
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Flying Lotus produced rapper Mac Miller's song "SDS'" for his album Watching Movies with the Sound Off.
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In November 2014, Flying Lotus collaborated with MF DOOM on the track "Masquatch" for the reissued copy of the video game.
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On July 17,2013, Flying Lotus announced on Twitter that he had been nominated for a VMA for the song "Tiny Tortures".
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On September 30,2014, Flying Lotus scored the short film A Portrait of Noomi Rapace, starring actress Noomi Rapace and directed by Aitor Throup.
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Flying Lotus appeared alongside Thundercat on Lamar's album To Pimp a Butterfly.
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In 2021, Flying Lotus released Yasuke, his score for the Netflix series Yasuke and his "full-length anime scoring debut" after a long history of contributing to other animation and film projects.