«It’s on in this motherfucker. This is history.»

The words of Steven Ellison before his first-ever abstract-experimental set as Flying Lotus in a seated venue that is home to the trio or the quartet. Not tonight. A crowd of some 400 twenty-your olds, drawn by the appeal of seeing these two prodigy Warp artists perform together for the first time in Amsterdam, caused havoc at the place so used to civilised discourse after a concert. Not this time. Aardvarck and Cinnaman, runaway cult figures from the 7,5th floor of a Spike Jonze film, meticulously murdered the crowd until 5 am with wonky, crunky and junkie bass and beats. FlyLo cameod like he ran the place; HudMo said «Ooops.»

Flying Lotus on deck after his live show at the Bimhuis on Beat Dimensions (photo: Nalden)

This was Beat Dimensions. Let’s do it again. There will be pictures and videos up soon. Thanks to Steven, Ross, Mike, Yuri, Huub and all others involved for making this possible.

Early 2007, Flying Lotus played in Amsterdam for the first time. This took place at the Paradiso, and was also organised by Cinnaman. The Beat Dimensions EP was released soon after that, and the rest is history.

Fortunately we have public radio in the Netherlands, and on that radio there are some very alert people – like Radna Rumping, now host of Future Vintage, then Benjamin hip hop journalist. It was Radna who interviewed FlyLo then. Listen to that interview here.