Flying Lotus Tickets

Went to see Flying Lotus and Teebs for the first time... all the other artists (Samiyam, Thundercat, and Austin Peralta) I had already seen. My problem with this show was not the performances, but the crowd itself. There were overly drunk and downright annoying people that talked over sets and maliciously went after other people. Someone from the venue also had an issue with Flylo's set and kept turning down the bass/volume/whatever and it was totally rude and confusing--it was at a venue, why did they keep turning it down? Wasn't it made for loud music?

FLying Lotus killed it! Thundercat and Peralta didnt seem to be in the correct venue. Completely different musical styles had the audience restless and I could actually hear more conversation among them than the music itself. Felt they should have had some more flair to stand up against Gaslamp Killer, who tore it up! That hair was wild and the beats hard. Great show overall though

One of the best dance parties I've been in awhile.

Been one of the people following these artists since Lincoln Height's Low End Theory had 20 people standing in front of a speaker. These artists are TALENTED. but the show was AWFUL - it seemed like a bunch of underground musicians uninterested in playing true quality sets for a mainstream venue/audience. Bummer :/

Best show I've been to in a very long time. good crowd and good performances.

FlyLo and his Brainfeeder pals rocked the Music Box Thursday night. If you like electronic independent music this was Nirvana. Loved everything about it and the theater is great for intimate concerts. First time I have been to this place and it was really cool including a rooftop terrace. I can't wait to see FlyLo's next gig!

I was looking forward to see flying lotus again since I saw him play in a small club in Paris, France, last year. This concert was more experimental and less danceable, I specially liked the different rhythmic changes and lineups. Alice Coltrane meets Squarepusher, that would be the direction this concert was for me and I would like to see him play again.

From the opening Strangeloop, to Teebs, to Mr. McFerrin, Austin Peralta and Thundercat to the headliner Flying Lotus, this was a consistent performance of sonic bliss. The array of sounds (and sights courtesy of the projections behind the performers) and styles made for a delightful evening.

Flying Lotus. is. the. best. His show was extraordinary. He had Just Blaze, who is the man who made hip hop beats ridiculous and off the walls, appear as his friend and perform. Also after the show he sat on stage on talked to EVERYONE who wanted to talk. It took almost 30 minutes.There is nothing more to say.

Seeing Thundercat come onstage in a Dragonball Z costume, feathers coming out the back of his hat and a 5 string bass was too much for a few people in the audience. This man truly knows what’s up. He and Austin Peralta joined the master of ceremonies, Stephen Ellison, for an unforgettable closing set. Just like a good host should, Flylo entertained all his guests and communicated with both the audience and the band. Ellison stopped the music for a while to talk to the crowd and take requests from an group of screaming fans yelling out some of his most obscure work, some of which was leaked and never officially released. He must have enjoyed the crowd’s fanatic energy because we heard a handful of those unreleased tracks and they were incredibly awesome. During his set with, all three musicians were constantly improvising and building lines off each other’s ideas. Every so often Flylo would cut the beat out to give either the bass or keyboard a chance to take a killin solo break. The group was having a fucking blast and so was everyone in the audience. Thundercat was featured during his single For Love I Come and MmmHmm off of Cosmograma. Flying Lotus dropped popular tracks like Massage Situation, Tea Leaf Dancers, Kill Your Co-Workers, Auntie’s Harp, and Do the Astral Plane. Some artists perform songs different than on the record because they can never do it as good as the studio take. Flying Lotus does the exact opposite by creating new songs in the moment based off of original studio material that are in some cases cooler than the original. He did a fair amount of sampling too, bumping his remix of I Feel Like Dying by Lil Wayne, sampling Paradise Garage by Squarepusher (also on Warp), Idioteque by Radiohead, Yonkers by Tyler the Creator, and more that are lost somewhere in my brain. Between playing Alice Coltrane to singing a song about DMT, Flylo had played the most eclectic DJ set I’ve ever heard. No one is forgetting this night anytime soon.

Honestly this was better than any concert I could imagine going to. The opening acts where so good I was thinking, damn how is he gonna top this, then Lotus goes up there with Thundercat and Austin Peralta and just does some of the most unbelievable shit ever. It was a jazz show, a rave, and a spiritual experience all at once. This 70 year old dude went up to him after him after the show and said, "I saw John Coltrane live at the Village Vanguard, and this was the best thing I've seen since then." I think that says it all.

Flying Lotus was good on his own, but the problem was that he played most of his set with Thundercat and some keyboard playing white kid named Austin, who didn't seem as though he had ever played a keyboard in his life. Simply put, the show was a mess...it just sounded like noise. Flying Lotus kept saying, "We don't know what the hell we're doing." Boy, I could tell. I actually found the openers more entertaining.