Flying Lotus - BIG MAMA

In a homecoming for the LA native, 2026 heralds Steven Ellison aka Flying Lotus’s debut release on his own label Brainfeeder - an explosive and utterly unique seven-track EP titled ‘BIG MAMA’ that encompasses the boundary-exploding approach to music and storytelling that has cemented his status as one of the most influential and creative voices in modern experimental music.

A creative of many mediums, the GRAMMY-nominated Flying Lotus is just as likely to appear at Sundance with a film as he is to headline a music festival.
Thanks to his passion for animation, experimental films and the future, his visual output has been equally as expansive, provocative, and avant-garde as that of his genre-defying music.

Following two genre-shaping albums that helped to establish and define the LA Beat Scene, Flying Lotus’s 2010 breakthrough ‘Cosmogramma’ - which heralded the start of a run of critically-adored albums - landed at Number 60 in the UK Official Albums Chart, with the follow up ‘Until The Quiet Comes’ landing at Number 34. ‘You’re Dead!’ then scored Flying Lotus’s highest chart success in the UK, sitting in the Top 75 for two weeks after entering at Number 24, with his last studio album ‘Flamagra’ also hitting Number 25 in the Official Albums Chart.

Flying Lotus has collaborated with a diverse range of esteemed artists across electronic, hiphop and jazz: ‘You’re Dead!’ featured Kendrick Lamar (on the huge ‘Never Catch Me’ - and for whom Flying Lotus produced the opening track of ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’), Snoop Dogg, FKA twigs, Earl Sweatshirt, Herbie Hancock and more, with ‘Flamagra’ listing features from Denzel Curry, George Clinton, Solange and David Lynch.

Many collaborators have appeared on more than one of Flying Lotus’s releases, most notably seen in his career-spanning work with Thundercat (for whom Ellison regularly produces, and whose bass and vocals can be heard across Flying Lotus’s catalogue), but also in features from Erykah Badu, Anderson .Paak, Thom Yorke, Shabazz Palaces, Niki Randa, Laura Darlington, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and more.

Screen-printed (on Side B) blue 140g vinyl housed in a 3mm spined sleeve.
Artwork by Christopher Ian Macfarlane.
Includes 12”x12” sticker sheet.