Flying Lotus

For over two decades, Los Angeles visionary Steve Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus (aka Captain Murphy), has reshaped the sound of contemporary music. Raised in a lineage of musical brilliance that includes Marilyn McLeod and Alice Coltrane , Ellison emerged from LAs influential Low End Theory scene with a sound that fused jazz, hip-hop, electronics, and futuristic experimentation into something entirely his own. Through landmark releases on Warp Records and collaborations with icons such as Erykah Badu and David Lynch , alongside production work on Kendrick Lamars To Pimp A Butterfly , Flying Lotus has become one of the most important creative voices of the 21st century. As the founder of Brainfeeder , he has also championed a new generation of boundary-pushing artists including Thundercat, Kamasi Washington, George Clinton, and Hiatus Kaiyote . A visual creative as much as a sonic one, FlyLo is renowned for immersive live shows combining intricate sound design with cinematic visuals, 3D animation, and avant-garde lighting. His creative output now stretches beyond music into film and television, directing and scoring projects such as Ash , contributing to V/H/S 99 , composing for the Netflix anime Yasuke , and creating the theme for Apples They Call Me Magic . Never confined by genre or medium, Flying Lotus continues to evolve, most recently with the vibrant Spirit Box EP , a house-leaning collaboration featuring Dawn Richard and Sid Sriram . A longtime friend of The Operatives, Flying Lotus first performed for the crew in the late 2000s, making this return a full-circle moment with one of the most influential artists to pass through the Operatives orbit. Expect the unexpected. A rare appearance from one of modern musics true polymaths.