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l'orange & kool keith - time? astonishing! - mello music group - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Hip Hop

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 Lbu, 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)

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.

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.