Flying Lotus confirms he made two of Apple’s iPhone ringtones

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Flying Lotus has confirmed that he produced two iPhone ringtones for Apple – find out more below.

The LA producer, DJ and co-founder of pioneering record label Brainfeeder – born Steven D. Bingley-Ellison – took to social media to confirm his involvement in making the two ringtones ‘Daybreak’ and ‘Chalet’ after Apple dissected the ringtones in a recent episode of its ‘The Sound of Apple’ show.

Flying Lotus wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter), confirming that the ringtones have been available for longer than people have realised: “Apple leaked it so I can say it. I wrote some ringtones that have been in [your] iPhone since iOS13. ‘Daybreak’ + ‘Chalet'”.

 

iOS13 was introduced in 2019, and the ringtones have been free-to-use for all Apple users ever since.

Both ringtones are soft and slow tunes, featuring a luscious and dreamy tone that ease users into their alarms. You can check them out below.

 

Flying Lotus most recently released the single ‘Garmonbozia’ on August 16. It is currently if the song will be part of a larger upcoming project. His last album was 2023’s ‘Flying Objects’.

Fred Garratt-Stanley wrote in a four-star review of Flying Lotus’ London gig last year: “FlyLo repeatedly showcases his experimental streak. He’s impatient on the buttons throughout the 75-minute set, fading out some tracks after just a few seconds, and crafting long, ambient pauses that provide space to flip easily between genres. He switches from funky house to glitchy industrial breakbeat, passing through booming dubstep along the way, and producing a room full of appreciatively screwed-up faces in doing so… Fans soak up the Grammy-winning multi-hyphenate’s bold, experimental audio-visual set with glee, and so they should; who knows when Flying Lotus will next touch down in London?”

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Tory Lanez's 'Prison Tapes' Hits Roadblock As Recording Equipment Gets Seized

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Tory Lanez‘s Prison Tapes series has likely come to an end as his recording equipment has been confiscated.

According to TMZ, the rapper’s studio equipment was seized by prison guards during a raid of his cell block at the California Correctional Institution, where he’s serving a 10-year sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion.

The news was confirmed by Ceasar McDowell, CEO of Unite the People and chief deputy on Tory’s legal team, who was informed by prison officials that inmates are strictly forbidden from having recording devices for various reasons.

Lanez launched Prison Tapes in July and released nine songs that were recorded behind bars, along with several other previously unreleased tracks from his Lost Tapes and Twitch Tapes series.

When announcing the weekly series, Tory said he had figured out a way to record music in prison while achieving the same high-quality sound as a professional studio.

“After about 20-something to 30-something fuck-ups and mistakes, me and my engineer have finally figure out how to record music over the jail phone and still keep the quality as professional as I had it on the street,” he said in a recorded phone call posted on Instagram.

“It’s over. I done cracked the fucking code, man. This means that not even these prison walls can stop me from dropping new music. It’s crazy! That being said, I’m about to start dropping hot heaps of coal on y’all head top. I’m dropping the all new ‘Free Tory’ playlist — it’s gon’ be updated every week with new music that I’m recording from prison in real time.”

He added: “This is the first of its kind and although God has already shown me that this moment is only temporary, it speaks testimony to the fact that no matter where they put me they can’t lock down my spirit, my ambition, my soul my passion nor my destiny!”

 

Tory was not exaggerating as fans were immediately stunned by the sound quality of his first Prison Tapes offerings, “Cell 245” and “Wish I Never Met You.”

“Tory Lanez really got some crazy quality on this song. You dead can’t even tell he did this over a prison phone,” one impressed listener wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

Another said: “How is Tory lanez song quality this good from jail[.] he wasn’t lying he cracked the code,” while a third fan joked: “They gave Tory Lanez a whole studio.”

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