L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — You could tell from the trail of the tweets. All week long, Flying Lotus had been sporadically updating his 50,000+ plus followers on his recording sessions with the reigning queen of psychedelic soul, Erykah Badu. “Day 3 on the album... more info

Altsounds — On 2 May 2011 James Pants is to release his new, self-titled album on Stones Throw Records. The 14 track album will be preceded by the release of a new single, Clouds Over The Pacific on 4 April. With the title track lifted from the album, the si... more info

XLR8R — Los Angeles-based beatmaker and Flying Lotus collaborator Samiyam announced he will soon be releasing his second proper LP, a follow-up to 2008's Rap Beats Vol. 1, called Sam Baker's Album. read more more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Co. Fee - Kali [2011] from thedespondentsarise on Vimeo. From the outside, the Los Angeles beat scene seems monolithic. To casual fans, Flying Lotus exists as its avatar, with his Brainfeeder umbrella label often employed as a synecdoche for the... more info

Abeano — At the end of last month, London producer Ben Ash aka Two Inch Punch took his frustrated soul onto 1Xtra’s Mistajam show. Along with sounds from his own tracks, he works with classics from the big stars (Common, D’angelo, Ryan Leslie, Bone T... more info

XLR8R — A couple months back, Detroit's prestigious electronic music festival, the annual Movement, announced its first wave of performers, which included the likes of Green Velvet, Soul Clap, Scuba, Marcel Dettmann, and many others. Now, 55 more perfor... more info

Detroit Free Press — Paxhau announced 55 additional acts for the Movement Electronic Music Festival on Friday, bringing the total to more than 100. Among the newly added performers are Richie Hawtin, the Dirtbombs, Little Dragon, Space Time Continuum, Aux 88, Delano Smit... more info

NME — The Joy Formidable and Flying Lotus also confirmed for this year’s bash more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — While it was once the epicenter of West Coast cool jazz, Los Angeles' modal scene rarely gets mentioned by anyone other than genre purists. But over the last few years Flying Lotus has labored tirelessly to correct the imbalance, incorporating... more info

Altsounds — FLYING LOTUS, ARCHERS OF LOAF, NO AGE + more for Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Battles, Caribou & Les Savy Fav - 9th-11th December 2011 at Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead, UK ATP's second festival weekend for December 2011 at Butlins, Mine... more info