Flying Lotus - 1983 LP

On his 2006 debut album, Steven Ellison, AKA Flying Lotus, layers spacy keyboards over bass-heavy beats, clearly very much influenced by the whole free jazz-based electronica and hip-hop L.A scene of the time, using fractured rhythms and subtle chords to propel the songs forward. Intelligent, accessible, jazz-based electronica and left-field hip-hop that's as good as it gets!