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Time? Astonishing!

L'Orange & Kool Keith

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Cat No: LPMMG00073C

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Release Date:  24 July 2015

Label:  Mello Music Group

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  888608665902

Genres:  Rap & Hip-Hop  Rap & Hip-Hop  

Release Date:  10 November 2023

Label:  Mello Music Group

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  634457143531

Genres:  Rap & Hip-Hop  Rap & Hip-Hop  

  • Description

    "The man may be out of place and time, but there are few artists as spectacularly weird as Keith" - Vice

    "L'Orange builds a gilded stage from a clutter of film, soul and synth samples, refurbishing the worn 9th Wonder/early-Kanye warped soul template" - Pitchfork

    L'Orange & Kool Keith set out to make something absurd, yet traditional, putting the Ultramagnetic MC in a position to rap over beats that fans have wanted to hear him on for years. Joining the team is cast of legendary rappers to create a diversity of talent. The album is a loose tale of a time traveller, moving only forward through time, settling in the future and living as he would normally. The album seems to imply that adventure is only a step away, but never seems to reach that point. It's an abstract and absurdist approach to working with an absurdist MC.

    Description

    If there's a secret to time travel, Kool Keith owns the patent - 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.

    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 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.



    These are space symphonies and occult odysseys, fuel for wanderers, wonderers, and all the a-likes.



    Welcome to the new world, even more sinister and suspenseful than the last one. We live in astonishing times: abstract, absurd, and indelibly Kool.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Time? Astonishing!
      • 2. The Traveler (feat J-Live)
      • 3. The Green Ray
      • 4. Twenty Fifty Three (feat Mr. Lif)
      • 5. Meanwhile, Back Home (feat Open Mike Eagle)
      • 6. The Wanderer
      • 7. This New World (feat Blu, Montage One & DJ Trackstar)
      • 8. Dr. Bipolar
      • 9. Suspended Animation (feat MC Paul Barman)
      • 10. I Need Out Of This World (feat MindsOne)
      • 11. Upwards. To Space!
      • 12. Days I Used To Know
      • 13. Sometimes I Feel (Bonus Track)

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Time? Astonishing!
      • 2. The Traveler (feat. J-Live)
      • 3. The Green Ray
      • 4. Twenty Fifty Three (feat. Mr. Lif)
      • 5. Meanwhile, Back Home (feat. Open Mike Eagle)
      • 6. The Wanderer

      Side 2

      • 1. This New World (feat. Blu, Montage One, DJ Trackstar)
      • 2. Dr. Bipolar
      • 3. Suspended Animation (feat. MC Paul Barman)
      • 4. I Need Out of This World (feat. Mindsone)
      • 5. Upwards. To Space!
      • 6. Days I Used To Know