L’Orange & Mr. Lif – Strange Technology [Video]
Off of “The Life And Death Of Scenery”, available here.
Read moreL’Orange
TrackBlasters Radio: 12.10.16
Da Wednesday Underground Flava – Underground & Old School Tunes Non-Stop Host: DJ P.R. Heavy hit after heavy hit! Press play and enjoy. Record Of The Day: The Game – I Grew Up On Wu-Tang Playlist NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge) – Get Bigger/Do U Luv The Game – The Juice The Game – The Soundtrack Dr. Dre feat. Kendrick Lamar Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay – Genocide Cold 187um feat. Ice Cube & The D.O.C. – Legacy Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad feat. Method Man – Bulletproof Love Banks & Steelz feat. Method Man & Masta Killa – Point Of View Wu-Tang Clan feat. Kool G Rap – Rivers Of Blood **Record Of The Day** The Game – I Grew Up On Wu-Tang Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M. De La Soul – Royalty Capes Mr. Lif & L’Orange – 5 Lies About The World Outside Earl Sweatshirt – Balance Dag Savage feat. ADAD & CashUs King – All My People Isaiah Rashad – Brenda Download here (right click and save as…)
Read moreMr. Lif & L’Orange – The Life And Death Of Scenery [Album]
George Orwell once prophesized, “if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” The latest EP from L’Orange & Mr. Lif, The Life and Death of Scenery, conceives a chimerical “lighthearted dystopia” just far enough from modernity to breathe easily, but close enough to make you consider relocating to that cave in the forest. In this collaboration with the eccentric North Carolina producer, L’Orange, Lif imagines an adjacent future called the “last society,” where culture has been obliterated and physical survival has taken precedence over art. Released through a partnership between Adult Swim and Mello Music Group, the duo’s latest opus opens with one of four addresses from “The Narrator” (played by The Daily Show’s Wyatt Cenac). These Big Brother missives capture a world where the, “books are all burned, the vinyl has been melted, and the remaining art catapulted over the city walls.” The mere act of whistling is cause for the guillotine. It’s the rap analogue to Fahrenheit 451, 1984, or a Brave New World, where the Soma is uncomfortably soothing and the sunshine eerily abundant. The former Def Jux legend inhabits on the role of The Scribe, frantically showing the post-apocalyptic survivors the power of what’s been lost. It attacks those who value disposable art over the timeless; it articulates the necessity of preserving culture; it lampoons the absurdity of attempting to destroy one of the most immutable qualities in mankind. In L’Orange’s words, the collaboration is “a
Read moreL’Orange & Mr. Lif – A Palace In The Sky [Audio]
Off of L’Orange and Mr. Lif’s forthcoming album, “The Life & Death of Scenery”. The project will be out on October 7th for free via Adult Swim and an extended version on October 14th on Mello Music Group.
Read moreMr. Lif & L’Orange – Strange Technology [Audio]
The first single from L’Orange & Mr. Lif’s upcoming project, “The Life & Death of Scenery,” featuring Akrobatik & Gonjasufi. The album will be out on October 7th for free on Adult Swim (AdultSwim.com) and an extended version on October 14th on Mello Music Group.
Read moreTrackBlasters Radio: 25.03.16
Da 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 moreL’Orange & Jeremiah Jae feat. Homeboy Sandman – Ignore The Man To Your Right [Video]
Deep kick drums, ticking hi-hats, irregular rhythms, and Victrola static all over golden age vocalizations combine to provide the black & white soundscape over which Chicago emcee Jeremiah Jae delivers deadpan lyrics. Stones Throw spitter Homeboy Sandman ties his verbals to the track on the second verse to complete the unsettling song. Taken by itself L’Orange & Jeremiah Jae’s singles leave listeners adrift in an undefined world of prohibition rap – a artistic Hiphop version of 1930s gangster films. But as fans of L’Orange already know, making sense of the story as each piece of the puzzle unfolds is part of the experience. “The Night Took Us In Like Family” out now.
Read moreL’Orange & Kool Keith – The Green Ray [Video]
From their joint album “Time? Astonishing!”.
Read moreL’Orange & Kool Keith – Time? Astonishing (Instrumentals) [Audio x Download]
Departing 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 moreL’Orange & Kool Keith – Time? Astonishing! [Album Stream]
L’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 moreL’Orange & Kool Keith – The Wanderer [Video]
“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 moreL’Orange & Kool Keith feat. Mr. Lif – Twenty Fifty Three [Stream x Download]
This 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 moreL’Orange & Kool Keith feat. J – Live – The Traveler [Stream]
Coming 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.
Read moreL’Orange & Jeremiah Jae – Death Valley [Video]
Directed by Ashton Blessing for Kangaroo 5. Taken from their collabo effort “The Night Took Us In Like Family”, out now.
Read moreL’Orange & Jeremiah Jae – The Night Took Us In Like Family [Album Stream]
Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L’Orange on their noir-hop opus, “The Night Took Us In Like Family.” Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and “The Maltese Falcon”: a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with “A Conspicuous Man.” L’Orange’s carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward—the hitman creeping. Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It’s like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus. A song title like “Ice Obsidian” says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap. Or maybe it’s the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code—raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: “a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse.” On “The Night Took Us In Like Family,” he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L’Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks to stealth assassinations. If gangsta rap remains one of the
Read more