L'Orange and Kool Keith-Time? Astonishing!
i n f o
label........: Mello Music Group
date ripped..: 08.04.2015
date released: 07.24.2015
url..........: mellomusicgroup.com
release size.: 60,4 MB
encoder......: Lame 3.98 V0
bitrate......: avg. 244kbps
mode.........: Joint-Stereo
tracks.......: 13
source.......: CDDA
ripper.......: Augustus Gloop
n o t e s
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 themes aren't dissimilar from his past opuses as
Dr. Octagon and Black Elvis. But 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.
But the star is Keith Thornton, offering more
ammunition for his spot as the most creative rapper of
all-time, offering more amazing adventures in the
future. While other veterans often look back, Keith
always knew that space ships donÆt come equipped with
rear view mirrors.
Every thought is a different action. He's easing into
new zones, encountering polygonic time travelers,
surrounded by enemies, blasting them with radioactive
wave forms. L'Orange is the gunner on the flank,
lacing the legend with synthesizers set to stun, great
wheeling humid organs, and sad exotic jazz riffs.
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.
d a t a
# t r a c k n a m e t i m e
01- Time? Astonishing! [01:45]
02- The Traveler (feat. J-Live) [02:53]
03- The Green Ray [02:48]
04- Twenty Fifty Three (feat. Mr. Lif) [03:18]
05- Meanwhile, Back Home [02:00]
(feat. Open Mike Eagle)
06- The Wanderer [03:23]
07- This New World [03:30]
(feat. Lbu, Montage One and DJ Trackstar)
08- Dr. Bipolar [03:13]
09- Suspended Animation (feat. MC Paul Barman) [01:34]
10- I Need Out of This World (feat. MindsOne) [02:45]
11- Upwards. To Space! [02:34]
12- Days I Used To Know [01:07]
13- Sometimes I Feel (Bonus Track) [02:43]
60,4 m e g s t o t a l [33:33]