{"id":2443305,"date":"2019-04-23T08:01:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=825675"},"modified":"2019-04-23T08:01:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:01:27","slug":"flying-lotus-delivers-funked-out-space-jams-spontaneous-takashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flying-lotus-delivers-funked-out-space-jams-spontaneous-takashi\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Lotus Delivers Funked-Out Space Jams \u2018Spontaneous,\u2019 \u2018Takashi\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/flying-lotus.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/flying-lotus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_flying-lotus\" data-tag=\"flying-lotus\">Flying Lotus<\/a> unveiled a cosmic mini-suite of two new songs, \u201cSpontaneous\u201d and \u201cTakashi,\u201d from his upcoming album, <em>Flamagra<\/em>, out May 24th via Warp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cSpontaneous\u201d features Little Dragon vocalist Yukimi Nagano singing over a roiling low-end groove shot through with dusty drums and and a galaxy of various synth sounds. After just a couple minutes, \u201cSpontaneous\u201d fades out and gives way to the opening thump of \u201cTakashi.\u201d The song \u2014 a dense, dizzying jam centered around a skittering clavichord \u2014 is named for Takashi Kudo, an artist in the teamLab collective, whose worked helped re-inspire Flying Lotus\u2019 own creative side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cSpontaneous\u201d and \u201cTakashi\u201d follow previously released <em>Flamagra<\/em> track, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flying-lotus-david-lynch-new-song-fire-is-coming-video-823372\/\">\u201cFire is Coming,\u201d<\/a> which featured David Lynch. The album will also boast contributions from Anderson .Paak, Solange, George Clinton, Tierra Whack, Denzel Curry, Thundercat, Shabazz Palaces and Toro y Moi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Flamagra<\/em> marks Flying Lotus\u2019 first studio album since 2014\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/youre-dead-100886\/\"><em>You\u2019re Dead!<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;In the years since, the producer\/DJ has released scattered singles and worked as a producer on projects like Kendrick Lamar\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/to-pimp-a-butterfly-119818\/\"><em>To Pimp&nbsp;<\/em><em>a Butterfly&nbsp;<\/em><\/a>and Thundercat\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Drunk<\/em>. In 2017, Flying Lotus released his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-features\/how-flying-lotus-made-the-grossest-midnight-movie-of-the-last-decade-204729\/\">feature film debut,&nbsp;<em>Kuso<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flying-lotus-delivers-funked-out-space-jams-spontaneous-takashi-825675\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Lotus unveiled a cosmic mini-suite of two new songs, \u201cSpontaneous\u201d and \u201cTakashi,\u201d from his upcoming album, Flamagra, out May 24th via Warp. \u201cSpontaneous\u201d features Little Dragon vocalist Yukimi Nagano singing over a roiling low-end groove shot through with dusty drums and and a galaxy of various synth sounds. After just a couple minutes, \u201cSpontaneous\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 18:25:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}