Ideas+Drafts+Loops

by Flying Lotus

Ideas+Drafts+Loops cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 December 2013
  • Label: Brainfeeder
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:01:12
  • Community rating: 3.32/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

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

Descriptors: experimental, fragmented, buzzy

Tracklist

  1. About That Time (1:47)
  2. Adventure Sound (3:15)
  3. An Xbox Killed My Dog (2:47)
  4. Aqua Teen 24 (0:46)
  5. Aqua Teen Inst 24 (0:45)
  6. Between Villains (3:32)
  7. Chasing Apples (1:52)
  8. Colemans Groove (1:25)
  9. Coswerved Draft (1:15)
  10. Flotus (3:27)
  11. Ideas 1 Mix (3:33)
  12. Hide Me (1:40)
  13. Little Hours (1:47)
  14. Meadow Man2 (3:32)
  15. Oatmeal Face (1:51)
  16. Osaka Trade (2:40)
  17. Puppet Talk (1:19)
  18. Stonecutters (4:19)
  19. Such A Square (2:28)
  20. The Diddler (4:54)
  21. TheKill (3:25)
  22. Black Skinhead (3:08)
  23. Tree Tunnels3 (1:23)
  24. Wake Me (4:22)

Credits

  • Flying Lotus - primary artist, performer
  • The Underachievers - featuring
  • Earl Sweatshirt - performer
  • Viktor Vaughn - performer
  • Andreya Triana - featuring
  • Niki Randa - featuring
  • Mapei - featuring
  • Shabazz Palaces - featuring

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