Steven Ellison (born October 7, 1983), better known as Flying Lotus or sometimes FlyLo, is an American record producer, DJ, filmmaker, and rapper. He has released seven critically acclaimed albums: 1983 (2006), Los Angeles (2008), Cosmogramma (2010), Until the Quiet Comes (2012), You're Dead! (2014), Flamagra (2019), and Yasuke (2021). Flying Lotus' other work includes creating the record label Brainfeeder, producing much of Adult Swim's bumper music, releasing rap mixtapes such as Duality (2012) under his Captain Murphy alter ego, curating and hosting the in-game radio station FlyLo FM in Grand Theft Auto V (2013), and directing the sci-fi horror film Ash (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Flying Lotus, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Night Patrol — Three Deuce
• 2026The Furious — Original Music Composer
• 2026V/H/S/Mixtape — Music, Director
• 2025Ash — Davis, Director, Original Music Composer, Executive Producer
• 2022V/H/S/99 — Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 2021The Vandal — Thanks
• 2021The Year of the Everlasting Storm — Original Music Composer
• Yasuke — Executive Producer, Original Music Composer, Music Producer, Story, Main Title Theme Composer
• YOLO — Flying Lotus (voice)
• 2019Perfect — Original Music Composer, Executive Producer
• 2018Family Feud — Music
• 2018Game Over, Man! — Hostage Steve / DJ Flying Lotus
• The Cook Up with Ghetto Gastro
• 2017Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 — Original Music Composer
• 2017Kuso — Policeman, Original Music Composer, Director, Writer
• 2016Cream — Various Characters (voice), Producer
• 2016LoveTrue — Music
• 2016Raised by Krump — Music
• 2016Royal — Director, Music
• 2015Fuckkkyouuu — Music, Sound Designer
• 2014A Portrait of Noomi Rapace — Music
• 2014Imperial Dreams — Original Music Composer
• 2013Clapping for the Wrong Reasons
• 2013Wildcat — Music
• 2013Wrong Cops — Customer
• 2012An Oversimplification of Her Beauty — Original Music Composer
• 2012Captain Murphy's Duality — Music
• 2012Cove Road — Producer, Original Music Composer, Director of Photography
• 2012The Mirror Between Us — Music
• 2012Wrong — Fireman
• 2012Wrong Cops: Chapter 1 — Customer
• 2011The Terrys — Music
• 2009Watts and Volts — Original Music Composer
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force — Theme Song Performance

Appearances as themselves (5)

• Diggin' in the Carts — Himself
• 2014Dreams Are Colder Than Death — Self
• 2014What Difference Does It Make? — Self
• 2013Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records — Self
• The Eric Andre Show — Self