Ideas+Drafts+Loops

by Flying Lotus

Ideas+Drafts+Loops cover art

Released as a surprise gift to his community, this collection anthologizes a diverse range of unreleased sketches, rare tracks, and collaborative experiments. The arrangements highlight his ability to maintain structural complexity and rhythmic urgency while collaborating with artists like Earl Sweatshirt and Shabazz Palaces. It remains a key artifact of the 'LA Beat' movement, prioritization textural variety and spontaneous creativity over traditional studio polish.

Genres

  • IDM
  • Wonky

Tracklist

  1. About That Time
  2. Adventure Sound
  3. An Xbox Killed My Dog
  4. Aqua Teen 24
  5. Aqua Teen Inst 24
  6. Between Villains
  7. Chasing Apples
  8. Colemans Groove
  9. Coswerved Draft
  10. Flotus
  11. Ideas 1 Mix
  12. Hide Me
  13. Little Hours
  14. Meadow Man2
  15. Oatmeal Face
  16. Osaka Trade
  17. Puppet Talk
  18. Stonecutters
  19. Such A Square
  20. The Diddler
  21. TheKill
  22. Black Skinhead
  23. Tree Tunnels3
  24. Wake Me