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Flying Lotus has produced the new single for rapper Mac Miller, "S.D.S.". Check it out above, via Rap-Up.

In a recent interview with Brightest Young Things, FlyLo-- who is touring North America at the moment-- shared details on a few of his current projects. He's working on a "crazy jazz album," he said, with Thundercat and others, that won't fall under the Flying Lotus name:

Right now, I’m on my jazz shit, man. I’m doing a lot of jazz stuff. We’re trying to make something that’s kind of a geek album. There are crazy time signatures and really intense playing, just because we want to go there. We want to play really fast. It’s gonna be fun, man... At the moment, there's a lot of people involved.

Along with his jazz project, Flying Lotus is planning a Brainfeeder compilation to mark the label's five-year anniversary, and working on new Flying Lotus material. ("Next year, there might be another Lotus record.") He's also working on his next hip-hop mixtape as Captain Murphy, the followup to 2012's Duality, for which he's gotten beats from Jeremiah Jae, Hudson Mohawke, and Madlib in addition to those he produced himself. FlyLo also noted that he has recently worked with Herbie Hancock.

In the same interview, he described his relationship to friend and collaborator Earl Sweatshirt, who he sees "like a little brother":

I see a lot of things in him that remind me of me when I was his age. But I didn’t have anyone around that was really into what I was doing at the time... I really believe in him as a person, so I like to support him... I’m down with what he’s doing and what he’s talking about, so I just want to show that. I think it’s cool to connect the universe as two. That’s something that I always wanted for L.A. artists. I want us to be able to all be on stage together and for it to make sense... It’s like, “Oh yeah, there’s Ariel Pink and Flying Lotus on stage. And Earl Sweatshirt. And Trent Reznor.” I want all of us on stage, partying and shit.

Watch an episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Over/Under" with Flying Lotus and Thundercat: