Flying Lotus – 1983

With his debut 1983, Flying Lotus took instrumental hip-hop to a new level: a cosmos of beats shaped by jazz, funk and soul – and it really is a cosmos. At the heart of this cluster of stars, one can already feel the pulse that would later define FlyLo’s subsequent albums and the sound of his own label, Brainfeeder. From this point on, it was no longer only about sound and rhythm; from here on, the genre also became about spirituality and the otherworldly. אולי not the Big Bang as such, but certainly a big bang for this particular approach.