Flying Lotus and the power of dreams

Steven Ellison has been called the Jimi Hendrix of his generation. Here, the nephew of Alice Coltrane talks about drugs, his new album – and recording his mother's life-support machineLast year, after his mother suffered a heart attack, Steven Ellison did two things that might seem odd but are, nevertheless, in keeping with the way he approaches his life and art. One was to record the rhythmic bleeps and whirring of the machines that kept his mother alive while she was unconscious in a Los Ang...

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