Over the Weekend: Flying Lotus at the Echoplex

Flying Lotus (+ familiar harp)

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The lines streaming in both directions from the Echoplex on Friday and Saturday made visual what had been the word around town for a while now: LA Weekly cover guy Flying Lotus was this weekend's hot ticket.

Friday night the packed Echo Park venue (we'll stop calling it "Eastside" lest our own Denis Romero and a bunch of people with impenetrable, squiggly calligraphy rip us a new one) witnessed a more traditional presentation of breakthrough album Cosmogramma, with Flying Lotus in full laptop jockey mode, blissfully smiling under the mystical projections designed by Dr. Strangloop.

But it was the Saturday gig that sounded most intriguing when announced: the unveiling of Infinity, a live band Lotus had gathered to breathe some improvisational spirit into the studio complexities of the album.

It was a long evening (Infinity didn't take the stage until 12:30) with a very large captive audience (the Echoplex really needs to revise its "no ins and outs" policy if a show is gonna go from 9ish till closing...) and many changes of pace and mood.

The Los Angeles beats scene in full came to support the man of the hour.

Nobody (center)

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The charming Daedalus

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A constant, recurring projection reiterated the "cosmic" theme, from the stage, to a live on-the-spot painting, to the bespoke t-shirt machine available for fans.

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