Flying Lotus - Coronus, The Terminator

Coronus, The Terminator is the latest installment in Flying Lotus' ongoing onslaught of masterfully directed music-videos. One of the most celebrated highlight tracks off of You're Dead!, Coronus needed an appropriately epic and ominous video to accompany the track's narrative of an harbinger of death coming down to lay waste to the Earth.

What we got was the story of man's premature passage through the bardos of the after-life, fleeing from the specters of death and regret that inhabit his home, and chasing the image of his son through the catacombs of otherworldly highways before ultimately submitting to the inevitable conclusion of his mortality.

Try though you might, you can't run forever...

This video is so chocked-full of symbolism it's intimidating. There's the destination of "Pleroma" and "You're Dead!" scrolling on the bus' LED screen, the eruption of lotus flowers, the one-armed son who can't place his hand on the chest of his father.

After watching it multiple times, I can't seem to shake the timeliness of this quote from one of my favorite horror movies Jacob's Ladder, "...if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth." Young Prodigy has joined the ranks of Hiro Murai, David Lewandowski, Kahlil Joseph, and David Firth as one of Flying Lotus' most formidable collaborators.

Flying Lotus - Ready Err Not

The latest music video from Flying Lotus' You're Dead! is here just in the time for Halloween. Directed and animated courtesy of David Firth, the ingeniously demented mind behind the mental scar-inducing Salad Fingers series, Ready Err Not takes us into the decapitated mind of Flylo himself; complete with writhing hellspawn, quasimodo axe-men, eye spiders, and mischievous elf children straddling the line of androgyny. Imagine 'Waking Life' as more of a waking nightmare.

Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

The video for Flying Lotus' latest single 'Never Catch Me' is equal parts somber and celebratory. Beautiful transitional shots of an empty morgue humming with ambiance segue seamlessly into a church chapel packed with parishioners.The camera pans to the bodies of two young children cut down in the prime of their life. Just as the song ramps up in intensity, the children leap up out their coffin beds in a phantasmagoric display of dance and acrobatics.

Featuring the directorial talents of Hiro Murai, known for his equally bizarre yet beautiful work with Earl Sweatshirt and Queens of the Stone Age, Never Catch Me is true to the song's sentiment that though life is short, death is only the beginning.

The Birth of Captain Murphy

Oh. Hell. Yeah. It's a terrific time to be a Flying Lotus fan right now. Following on the heels of his macabre collaboration project with Shintaro Kago, the fine folks at Adult Swim have released the first in a short video series documenting the origins of Lotus' malevolent rap alter-ego; Captain Murphy. And voiced by Snoop Dogg no less!

Captain Murphy's first mixtape Duality was one of my favorite rap projects of 2012. His menacingly pitch-shifted vocals, mischievously graphic lyricism and psychedelic sound production made for one of the most unique experiences I've heard since Madlib's Quasimoto. With Murphy making an appearance on You're Dead! this October and rumblings of a follow-up brewing in the background, consider this teaser a small taste of things to come.

Shintaro Kago X Flying Lotus: You're Dead! Illustrations (NSFW)

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Last month, electronic music maestro Steven Ellison (AKA Flying Lotus) announced that his forthcoming fifth album comically titled You're Dead! would be released this October. Normally, this alone would be enough to send me pacing frantically in giddy circles of impatient anticipation. But there's more: Flylo has enlisted the peculiar talents of Japanese body-horror artist Shintaro Kago to illustrate his album cover as well as a series of tarot cards depicting each of the 19 tracks on You're Dead! These illustrations are proof-positive that a collaboration between Lotus' mind-bending electronica and Kago's macabre artwork is a match made in Heaven(?)

Shintaro Kago is a Japanese guro horror artist and self-proclaimed kisou mangaka ("bizarre manga artist"). Born in 1969, Kago has contributed over 30 publications since his debut in 1988. Check out more of the series after the break, though tread lightly where you click. We're entering firm NSFW territory here.

Flying Lotus - "Phantasm"

Mysterious, astral creatures roam an idyllic desert in this new music video for Phantasm, taken from the year and a half old album 'Until The Quiet Comes.' A strange fuzzy creature unravels the contents of a mysterious figure, who seems to contain an entire universe within his body.

Featuring the beautiful vocal accompaniment of singer Laura Darlington, the video seems to have aimed for a vintage scifi feel with director Markus Hofko's choice of using a whole slew of retro lenses to shoot. The music video was shot over 2 days in the desert region of northern New Zealand.

Flying Lotus - "Such A Square”

Created as a proof of what Moog's new synthesizer could do (Dubbed the 'Sub Phatty'), 'Such A Square' is the result of Flying Lotus getting first dibs on taking the synth for a spin. Coupled with a mind melting music video by Adam Fuchs. Download the track for free over on Soundcloud.

Flying Lotus - Putty Boy Strut

I'm glad to see that Flying Lotus is still dedicated to releasing awesome music videos despite his exploding fame, with the experimental producers latest featuring a track from his upcoming album 'Until The Quiet Comes.' Featuring visuals by the infamous Cyriak Harris, the music video narrates the devastating, yet beautiful results of a malfunction in a fully automated, robotic world. I never thought I'd see these two great minds come together, so this made my day.

Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes

A night never goes by where Flying Lotus isn't the perfect soundtrack, no matter what mood you're in the music fits. In this newest track Until The Quiet Comes once again proves that the experimental producer is always ahead of the game with his music. Accompanied by a phenomenal short film by Kahlil Joseph, this track is sure to get you in the right mood, I really dig the the use of 35mm.