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B-Real sits down with Kool Keith in part 1 of their Smokebox conversation. The smoking session goes into 30 years of the rappers career discussing ultramagnetic Mc’s, “Doctor Octagon”, and more!
Read moreIn anticipation of Kool Keith’s newest solo album, “Feature Magnetic“, we’re releasing his newest single, featuring the underground masked legend, MF DOOM. Two of the great pioneers of style in hiphop join forces on, “Super Hero”, a spacey and dreamlike track, produced by Kool Keith himself, Number One Producer. Keith and DOOM trade comic fiction, childhood fantasies meet adult conflict. The beat is deep bass and wobbly synths, drum loops and reverberating cymbals. The new album is out September 16, 2016. Feature Magnetic by Kool Keith
Read moreOff of Kool Keith’s latest effort, “Tashan Dorrsett/The Preacher”. Stream “Let Me Breath” below and head over to Bandcamp to cop the LP.
Read moreRZA and Paul Banks share another cut from their collaborative album “Anything But Words”. Pre-orde here. August 26 is the date.
Read moreHere’s a first taste off Kool Kieth’s upcoming project, “Feature Magnetic”, which is due out September 16th. Pre-order your copy here. Feature Magnetic by Kool Keith
Read moreDa Fat Friday Afternoon – The Official Soundtrack To Your Weekend Host: DJ P.R. Today, RemiDemi takes over the TB Radio airwaves with his dope “Smoke Break” mix, which features dusty, blunted instrumentals and a small bunch of rap tracks. Happy Good Friday, ya’ll! Record Of The Day: Back on Monday! Playlist Contact Field Orchestra – Sluice Box Tavern rxn – thx Knowsum – Home Bastien Keb – Pork Belly Allen Poe – Memory Sleepdealer – 1974 Dr Blaster – Green Mint Szur – track011 (vibe to this at night) SPELLWRKS – Super Chill Byron The Aquarius – I Can See U Professor Brian Oblivion – Numb Tongue King I Divine – 9th Dimension Bluestaeb – Message From The Inner City Blue Mono Massive – Birds and Bees (Instrumental) bugseed – to be there Croup – Singularity Tajima Hal – Glossy Nepo – Hirngespinst SPELLWRKS – Salami Rolls Nino El Dino – Quit It Oh No The Nite Ray West – Thinker Girl Professor Brian Oblivion – Help Me Saito – Crates Digging SPELLWRKS – Syrup bugseed – katmandu Szur – track009 (blaze to this at night) Siam Slap Pigeondust – Harps L’Orange & Kool Keith – Twenty Fifty Three Robot Orchestra – Divine Elegance KLIM – Crickett Red Martina – Outside Def Dee – Keep Keep it On Karlsson – Classic Sht Red Martina – Seasons Change Al Quetz – Zamal Chant Circa 94 Beats – Flames Get Back PackFM – Plucking Daisies (instrumental) Def Dee – The Merc
Read moreFrom their joint album “Time? Astonishing!”.
Read moreDeparting from the familiar noir sound that L’Orange has developed, his collaboration with legendary MC Kool Keith breaks new ground into the surreal and futuristic. Creating lush and odd textures, L’Orange finds a new design in a hybrid sound of old time radio and 70s experimental music. Time? Astonishing… Instrumentals! by L'Orange & Kool Keith
Read moreThe second single from A3C Volume 5 comes from legendary artists U-God (of Wu-Tang Clan), Cannibal Ox and Kool Keith. While the A3C Volume series has always focused on showcasing emerging artists, iHipHop Distribution and A3C found it fitting to salute the godfathers of today’s sound. U-God, Vast Aire, Vordul Mega, and Kool Keith have always been ahead of their time, and these New York MCs prove just that on this futuristic remix to U-God’s “Journey,” which was originally released on U-God’s last solo album The Keynote Speaker. U-God is currently preparing his next album, Venom, for a 2016 release on Babygrande Records.
Read moreL’Orange and Kool Keith hit us with their dope collabo project “Time? Astonishing!”. Released on Mello Music Group, “Time? Astonishing!” is the latest dimensional warp from hip-hop’s premiere astral traveler. His union with MMG producer L’ Orange finds him exploring uncharted terrain: choppy volcanic rock planets, ice glacier moons, new surgical procedures, and fresh rappers to toss into the ether. The scalpel remains eternally sharp. The album is about a man in the early 20th century who is a bored explorer and finds technology to go into the future – but he does so without any sense of adventure. He travels through time as if he is traveling to Tuscaloosa. He is then hospitalized as insane and then goes into suspended animation (a metaphor for his subconscious while sedated in the hospital). The adventure begins only after the album is finished, the record is all the thoughts and introspection before things really begin. Absurdist. Time? Astonishing! by L'Orange & Kool Keith
Read more“The Wanderer” is another chapter in the time traveling epic “Time? Astonishing!” Kool Keith narrates a man out of time, gathering data for his sciences. Directed by Jon Webb, The Wanderer is the first video from the upcoming collaboration coming July 24, 2015.
Read moreThis will land on L’Orange and Kool Keith’s collabo project “Time? Astonishing”, dropping July 24. Pre-order here. Time? Astonishing by L'Orange & Kool Keith
Read moreBronx legend Kool Keith swings by @RapIsOuttaCntrl as a special guest to talk about random topics and watch DJ Eclipse on the turntables. In this one-of-a-kind interview, Keith talks about producing on his own and recording about 7,000 tracks per week. He claims to have pioneered gift-giving at shows, such as passing out chicken wings and Capri Sun’s to audience members. Also, Keith drops a hint of his recent meeting in San Francisco with Dan The Automator and a possible project in the works.
Read moreComing July 24th from Mello Music Group, Time? Astonishing! is the latest dimensional warp from hip-hop’s premiere astral traveler. His union with MMG producer L’Orange finds him exploring uncharted terrain: choppy volcanic rock planets, ice glacier moons, new surgical procedures, and fresh rappers to toss into the ether. The scalpel remains eternally sharp. Even a flying DeLorean seems too conventional for the Bronx legend. He’d more logically orbit throughout the galaxy in a gleaming chrome spaceship, teaching the stars and aliens new forms of originality. He is too weird to live, too rare to die, too uniquely ultra-magnetic to be accurately mimicked. L’Orange’s production appropriately coaxes the most appealingly baffling gonzo vision from Keith since his days collaborating with Dan “The Automator” Nakamura. This isn’t the noir-rap of L’Orange’s previous work, but something atmospheric, ethereal, and absurd. Yet there’s a sense of tradition within the playfulness. The beats glow with radioactive grit. Hard enough to knock from your car speakers, cinematic and plutonium-propelled enough to transport you to strange terra firma. Buck Rodgers movie serials meet boom-bap. And along for the odyssey are a cast of the best underground MC’s of the last decade: Blu, Open Mike Eagle, Mr. Lif, J-Live, and more. Welcome to the new world, even more sinister and suspenseful than the last one. We live inastonishing times: abstract, absurd, and indelibly Kool.
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