Kanye West “Love Lockdown (Flying Lotus remix)”

Winetka, California producer/DJ extraordinaire Flying Lotus brings a bit of grime to Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown,” on this gritty remix that echoes the late-night empty city appeal of Burial’s best work. Steven Ellison injects the song with a bold pulse that was perhaps lacking in the original robotic single, making a danceable dub-based track out of a single that certainly split the populace. It goes by in a rush, with the intro and outro making up nearly a third of the track, but that doesn’t diminish the sinister quality of FlyLo’s beats and his ability to take Kanye’s vocal stem and have it add to the melody instead of being the distracting focus of the song. Another ambient remix hit out of the park by the superlative Flying Lotus, whose great-Aunt is Alice Coltrane. How smooth are those blood lines?

Kanye West “Love Lockdown (Flying Lotus remix)” [MP3]

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