Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder – considered among the most innovative
independent labels of the last decade – celebrates the label’s past,
present and future with a 36 track collection, showcasing some of the
label's finest retrospective highlights, plus a mouth-watering 22 brand new,
unreleased cuts from Brainfeeder artists and the label’s extended family.
Brainfeeder has constantly broken new ground while reminding the world that the
future is only as far away as it needs to be. It’s less a label than an
international conspiracy to conquer clichéd sounds – reorganizing the DNA of
funk, hip hop, jazz, soul and every other strain of beat music that eludes
compartmentalization. The label has become a sanctified refuge for those who
believe that genre is largely obsolete, nothing is too weird and the wildest
style will always reign supreme.
If the resuscitation of jazz has been one of the predominant narratives of the
last several years, it’s unquestionably due to the lasting impact of
Brainfeeder, via their imagination, total fearlessness and wry humor.
While Brainfeeder X is both an important recap of just how powerful a force the
label is within the beats, electronic and hip hop circuits, the new tracks that
make up the bulk of Brainfeeder X go a long way to making it clear that for
Brainfeeder, the best records are still to come…
The first part of the collection mostly boasts the classics, while the second
focuses on an unreleased future canon.
