Flying Lotus // Hip Hop // LA beats Production Links

wub · Post by **wub** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:36 am

JFK wrote: [FlyLo Production is] down to three things though:

Sidechain everything to everthing else
Play drums percs with a Trigger Finger
Smoke copious amounts of Cali weed.

Basic A · Post by **Basic A** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:21 am

Big, up.

mta7388 · Post by **mta7388** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:56 am

wasn't aware that this much about his production techniques existed.

time to spend hours biting his style

AllNightDayDream · Post by **AllNightDayDream** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:09 pm

This is great! I'm not gonna get any sleep haha

OlzaMK · Post by **OlzaMK** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:03 pm

Amazing compilation Wub! Biggups!

therook · Post by **therook** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:42 pm

Love that sound. Sounds a lot like slugabed.

corpu5 · Post by **corpu5** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:18 pm

sick thread

Ludovico · Post by **Ludovico** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:01 pm

Gusto · Post by **Gusto** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:24 am

Just to get it out of they way first; I don't think it matters what software or whatever he uses. But if you're interested and don't wanna read all the links, Daddy Kev mentions that he used Reason for most stuff 'Los Angeles' and earlier and Ableton for his live stuff and 'Cosmogramma'.

larspro · Post by **larspro** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:03 pm

"how to be flying lotus"

back2onett · Post by **back2onett** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:01 pm

FANFUCKINGTASTIC

JoeOsoDopke · Post by **JoeOsoDopke** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:32 pm

Does anyone have any insight on the production techniques that he uses? Here is what I notice from his mixes/songs (This includes parts and tendencies not specifically production related):
1.) Heavy, Heavy use of sidechain compression
2.) Vinyl crackling sounds
3.) The drums are clearly not made to line up on grid
4.) Drums are extremely thick sounding
5.) Lowfi-ish sound
6.) Influences from classic video games
7.) Vibrato on keys/pads

Anyone have any suggestions, or ways which YOU make your material sound similar? Or maybe how he does?

Disco Nutter · Post by **Disco Nutter** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:28 pm

I think there was a big topic on this! Have a search.

Basic A · Post by **Basic A** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:46 pm

JoeOsoDopke wrote:Does anyone have any insight on the production techniques that he uses? Here is what I notice from his mixes/songs (This includes parts and tendencies not specifically production related):
1.) Heavy, Heavy use of sidechain compression

And regular compression, he's got a very extensive rack, you can find pictures of it on his bookface.

2.) Vinyl crackling sounds

You know most of what he does is recorded on actual tape first right? I highly doubt he's sampling these things. He works with so many mic's and real studio musicians that artifacts just happen. That, and most youtube vids of his stuff are vinyl rips anyway.

3.) The drums are clearly not made to line up on grid

See above, he uses alot of studio musicians and micing... The drums on Satelliiittteee are a combination of desktop drumming, spoons, and Thundercat+Gene Cory on the drums/bass. Thundercat is a genious on all instruments. Gene is a genious with studio drumming. You do the math.

4.) Drums are extremely thick sounding

Der. Mic'd and sent to tape, or sampled from his vinyl.

5.) Lowfi-ish sound

it happens when you do an album the right way. You can generally hear the difference between his early day singles and his new stuff, but regardless, he's always copped to loads of recording and vinyl sampling, these things dont sound as perfect as synthesizers, which from what I see he doesnt incorporate all too often aside from select and very obvious tracks, like co-workers and pie face.

7.) Vibrato on keys/pads

Wow and flutter as well, Gaslamp Killer owns a rhodes, so Im sure they put it to use quite often, if you look up the mt washington jam sessions, they've got a serious pedal rack at their disposal too.

Stop immitating. The whole special thing about flylo is your glimpsing the mans soul. thats not your soul. its not a sound. he's the most diverse artist youll ever find. the reason it sounds like flylo, is cause flylo made it.

wub · Post by **wub** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:02 am

London interview with Samiyam, Tokimonsta, Kutmah and Feed The Robots

Earjax · Post by **Earjax** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:38 pm

He did a lecture at the red bull academy which was online, had a quick look and couldn't find it though, they might have taken it off

didge · Post by **didge** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:32 pm

I watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQcmhshWc6A where he talks about making sounds come from beside and behind you and I was like, buuullllshiit. So I put on Cosmogramma after cos I hadn't heard it in a wihle and then later I hear my phone vibrating behind me on the bed like it just got a text...but it hadn't and then I skipped back a few seconds and the muuuthafuucka had made the sound come from behind. It's about 3.21 on Do the Astral Plane and it's very faint but still...pwnd.

hudson · Post by **hudson** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:07 am

Haha, yeah, binaural samples are the best. I use them all the time.

therapist · Post by **therapist** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 1:24 pm

Nice on Wub. This is a gem.

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