Flying Lotus signed the young Brooklyn rappers Issa Dash and Ak to his Brainfeeder label for their weedy astral-traveler boom-bap. But they didn’t let that stop them from recruiting Virginia banger-maker Lex Luger to produce most of their new mixtape The Lords Of Flatbush. When these two are staring at the stars and watching their smoke drift, as they did on the early-2012 mixtape Indigoism, they’ve got a great thing going. But as the Luger collaborations attest, they’re still exploring, still pushing themselves. – Tom

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