I recently picked up the latest release from Flying Lotus (Formerly of Adult Swim Fame), Los Angeles, and it is all I've been listening to for the past week. If you like electronica and hip-hop, this should be a must buy for you. Los Angeles is pretty much perfect from start to finish, and it is the most enchanting thing I've ever heard. Lotus provides hypnotic beats, while incorporating a sharp sonic dissonance, and melodic outside influences. The only producer that comes close to perfecting a similar sound would be Prefuse 73, but this cd is miles ahead of anything he's ever done. It sounds like the kind of music people we'll be listening to hundred of years from now, electronica, produced by super advanced robots with a knack for melody and at simulating human emotion. Each song seems like a different tale, but they all go together seemless, so I would almost say that feel more like episodes in an ingenious musical plot. I usually put this cd in on late lonely nights, while I'm reading, or when I'm trying to do anything creative whatsoever...And so far it has been my most able muse, and has already become like a ritual. Please check this album out if you've ever been curious about electronica, and if you are an electronica fan and you don't have this album you should feel ashamed. From the first track I was entranced, and with each following track I got deeper and deeper into a trance, this is album's mystique is just that special. And judging by your ecletic music tastes, Flames you especially will love this album just as much as me.

I give it a 9/10 (And I'm An Extremely Tough Critic)

You know an electronica album is awesome when pitchfork gives it an 8.5.

Excerpt:

Sharing passing similarities with two of modern indie hip-hop's top producers, Madlib and the late J Dilla, Flying Lotus has constructed an album of static, texture, and rhythm that, at its most stirring moments, can be soothingly meditative, an accomplished blend of debris and warmth, b-boy head-nod and laptopper experimentalism. If Prefuse hadn't fallen off after One Word Extinguisher and continued to push the envelope with each record since, he might sound close to this in 2008.

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The title is kinda of a joke, but I have say that I absolutely hated Jeff's review of Skate...Well actually the review itself wasn't too bad but the score was totally out of whack from the text. Also, I'm totally confused at how he arrived at the score he did from not only the text he wrote but also because of his good and bad summary. Skate is admittedly a pretty niche game, it is anything but your standard affair, and I think the true heart of the game is in the skating itself and not at all in the missions themselves. Basically the game was designed almost solely around its controls and environment, so much that if the controls and and environment were bad the game would be a total failure. However, the game's environment is breath taking and the controls are completely brilliant (a perfect mesh of realism and accessbility), so I don't understand why the game got a 7.5...Sure a 7.5 is decent, but if you were to just take a gander at everyone else's review you'd get the idea that this game is doing something revolutionary...And IMO the game accomplishes just that. Jeff even putsin thegood controls and I believe environemnt, so whatsreally holdingback the game Jeff?Sure the career mode and goals aren't all that, but the skating, and the community the game develops are quite superb. The community is great because you can establish an account on EA, and watch, link,upload, and rate skateclips fromtthe game...even providing a way to embed themon facebook...whatother game has that?Not to mention the extensive options availablethrough Xbox Live.I said earlier that the game was really made more so for a niche market, although it is accessible enough for anyone to pick and play, and I believe that is spot on...People looking for a Tony Hawk copy (*cough Jeff) should not even have their hands on the game...Although, if you were to let some that truly skateboards or has had an experience skating play this game, they'd be completely blown away...Is that Jeff's fault? No. But if the guy can't appreciate the game for what it is, I don' t think he should be reviewing the game at all. Often times high scores are given out to the game's which are the best in their genre, but with Skate I don't think the game can really be compared to any other game that is currently out on the market, and that in itself speaks volumes to its quality. Overall I just think the problem Jeff had reviewing this game was much like the problem he had in reviewing VF5, he just has no idea what he's talking about.