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It’s been 4 months (we’ve been busy finding great new music for you boys and girls), but here it is finally, a new podcast!

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1. Flying Lotus- Orbit Brazil- 1983– Out Now
2. The Life Force Trio- Alice!- Living Room– Out Now
3. Nobody- Mia Doi Todd “Autumn” Remix- Revisions, Revisions– Out October 31st
4. Samamidon- Tribulation- But This Chicken Proved False Hearted– Out February 2007
5. Tracks From the Vault: Calamalka- Chassi- Shredder’s Dub– Out Now

Okayplayer, the highly respected hip-hop site/community, has declared Flying Lotus’ “1983” one of the best albums of the year. Read below for the full review. If you haven’t copped this album yet, you’re missing out. Stop reading this and run to your nearest record store right now!

http://www.okayplayer.com/reviews/index.php/weblog/more/nineteen_eighty_three/

If you’re in LA this weekend, be sure to check out Lotus’ album release party at The Do Over:
1611 El Centro Ave
Hollywood, CA 90028
FREE!!!

www.myspace.com/flyinglotus

You’ve all been waiting for it and the day has finally arrived- Flying Lotus’ “1983” is hitting store shelves! For those of you digitally inclined, you can also pick up this great release on iTunes:

This is a future classic and the debut of America’s next great beatmaker, so DON’T SLEEP!

www.myspace.com/flyinglotus

CELEBRATING 100 ISSUES OF XLR8R MAGAZINE

Thursday, September 14, 2006

XLR8R and Plug Research Present:
JIMMY TAMBORELLO DJ Set
(James Figurine, Dntel, The Postal Service)

DAEDELUS Live performance
(Plug Research, Mush, Ninja Tune)

FLYING LOTUS Live performance
(Plug Research)

Knitting Factory
7021 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles
10pm 2am, $5, 21+

Commemorative 100th issue hats from New Era Caps and t-shirts from Puma available to the first 100 people through the door.

For more information about this and other 100th issue events in Los Angeles and New York visit www.xlr8r.com.

The highly anticipated debut album from The Life Force Trio, “Living Room,” will finally hit stores tomorrow. If you still haven’t heard them, listen to our podcasts and stream some tracks on iTunes. This is a record you will not want to miss!

Carlos Nino, the group’s leader, describes their influences thusly: “Sly & The Family Stone’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On and Fresh, Shuggie Otis’s Inspiration Information, Sun Ra, John & Alice Coltrane and everything from French Impressionism to African High-Life and ‘60s Space Rock – to me, that’s the vibration we were tuned to making ‘Living Room’,” Nino explains. “We just got together and made music that was open and from the heart.”

www.myspace.com/thelifeforcetrio