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Flying Lotus

March 13th, 2008 by

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Flying Lotus – Biography

Los Angeles is a sunny land with a shadowy side. Sunshine soul music and hazy psychedelia are the more well-known musical exports, but if you peer into the city’s darker corners it’s not hard to find their skewed musical cousins. This is the place Flying Lotus inhabits, turning out his electric brand of shadowy funk. Signed a few short months ago, his Warp debut, Reset is the perfect opportunity for Lotus to stretch out and give a small taste of his wide-ranging talent. From the skeletal electro of “Dance Floor Stalker”, which brings to mind a more sinister Egyptian Lover, to the subterranean soul knocker “Tea Leaf Dancers” and the bass workout of “Spicy Sammich” no stone is left unturned.

All the music begs the question: “Where did Flying Lotus come from?” It all started with a little album called Doggystyle. Says Lotus, “I heard Snoop Doggy Dogg’s Doggystyle when I was thirteen, after that I knew I wanted to make music. So, when I was 14, I got my first machine, a Roland MC-505. Damn…to this day that album still has some of the best beats I’ve ever heard.” Since that fateful encounter with The Doggfather’s music, Flying Lotus has been hard at work in the lab perfecting his unorthodox style. Not unlikely will you have heard his bugged out remixes of Kelis, Madvillan and Mia Doi Todd which in going head to head with the original have spread like viral wildfire. Or these new Reset tracks that are at once percussive and epic – it’s no wonder there’s more to it, “It starts with a concept then it becomes a visual thing with me. I get a story in my head, and pick out tracks that complete it. The next couple records are on some blowed cyberpunk shit.”

While there’s no question that Flying Lotus’ roots are in hip-hop, there is an undeniable influence from growing up in and around the Coltrane family. In particular sharing music and ideas with his great aunt Alice before her recent death has meant that the music he’s creating is something new, something transforming and viewed from a very unique perspective. This mind set and playing shows around the world has allowed the young gun a window into scenes across the globe which are reflected in his own music, “Hearing dubstep in London, the new stuff from Paris, cats in Glasgow…the best part is seeing how excited folks are to hear new sounds, cats freak out!” he says. So feel free to freak out to Reset until the upcoming album makes it way into your hands in 2008…and what to expect then? Says the man himself, “Some new tricks”.

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The News Sun – Waukegan (IL) April 16, 2012 Dear Doctor K: My husband has a deviated septum. The condition runs in his family, and both his mother and uncle had unsuccessful surgeries to correct theirs. As a result, he refuses to consider surgery. What can be done?

Dear Reader: In people with a deviated septum, one nasal passage inside the nose is wider than normal and one is narrower. This alters the pattern of airflow in the nose and sometimes blocks airflow on the narrowed side.

The nasal septum is the wall between the left and right sides of the nose. It is firm but bendable. Ideally, the nasal septum should lie exactly in the center, forming two equal nasal passages. Yet in about 80 percent of us, the nasal septum is a little off-center. A deviated septum can be a very uncomfortable condition.

Symptoms of a deviated septum can include:

Blockage of one or both nostrils;

Nasal congestion, sometimes on one side;

Frequent nosebleeds;

Frequent sinus infections;

Facial pain, headaches, postnasal drip;

Noisy breathing during sleep in infants and young children;

Sleep interrupted by difficulty breathing, including an inability to sleep on one side.

The first step for your husband would be to speak with an otolaryngologist (ear, nose and throat specialist) or plastic surgeon about treatment options.

Steroid nasal sprays may reduce nasal allergies. Such allergies can cause tissues in the nose to swell, which further narrows the nasal passage on the side of the deviated septum. Some people use over-the-counter nasal sprays, such as oxymetazoline. These can open up nasal passages for a few days, but if these sprays are used more than that, they can cause the nasal passages to close down again.

Sometimes surgery ?ˆ” called a septoplasty ?ˆ” is needed. In this procedure, the surgeon moves the septum to a normal position. In some cases, the surgeon also will reshape the external appearance of the nose in a procedure called rhinoplasty. When the two procedures are done at the same time, the surgery is called a septorhinoplasty. deviatedseptumsurgerynow.net deviated septum surgery

Success rates for septoplasty are actually quite high, from the research I?ˆ™ve read — greater than 80 percent. Look for an ear, nose and throat surgeon who has done a large number of septoplasty operations in his or her career, and in the past couple of years, in particular.

Write to Dr. Komaroff at www.AskDoctorK.com

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