74: Out of Time (Reimagined) (Colored LP)

“VIRIDIAN MARBLE” COLORED VINYL with OBI and HAND-NUMBERED LABELS

Norwegian producer Ole-Birger Neergrd revisits74: Out of Time with emotive ideations; new remixes featuring Fly Anakin, Pink Siifu, Gabe Nandez, Quelle Chris, and other notables from the current vanguard of rap progressives. Weaving social and cultural themes throughout, this ambitious project is a corollary to the unrest and tension felt in 1974, a year of political disruption and disillusionment not unlike our current state of affairs.

Neergrds minimalistic approach contains multitudes, tracks with high levels of organization in its simplicity, with a jazz-anchored tapestry that also includesYUNGMORPHEOUS, lojii, and Tha God Fahim. On Slippery, a spiritually intimate profession, the enigmatic billy woods says: I used to think the means justified the ends / I had it backwards, I made amends.

This sense of numerology surrounding 74 underscores the project in other ways, specifically the sample palette, and a stark sense of activism, emphasized by songs titled, Out of Life, Resting Rate and Wish I Could Go Back. True to form, the entire album is paced at 74 BPM, with the cast of guests jutting in and out of OBBs fluid arrangements, which can be bold when bare yet richly layered during flourishing moments.-David Ma

Tracklist:
Side A:
A1 Combinations (Intro)
A2 Out of Life (feat. Ill Camille)
A3 Same Time (feat. MoRuf)
A4 Catch Your Breath (feat. Pink Siifu)
A5 Once Upon A Time (feat. Gabe Nandez, Fly Anakin)
A6 Slippery (feat. billy woods)
A7 Up To Speed (feat. Tha God Fahim)
A8 The New Day (feat. lojii, Ill Camille)
A9 Resting Rate (feat. Awon)
Side B:
B1 All I Can Say Is (feat. YUNGMORPHEUS)
B2 Sometimes (feat. lojii)
B3 Wish I Could Go Back (feat. Quelle Chris)
B4 Seven Times (feat. MoRuf)
B5 Historys Here (feat. Lil B, Vic Spencer)
B6 Passion (feat. Oliver the 2nd, DJ Chali)

Album Specs:
Album is packaged in a black, matte-finished jacket w/ center holes, and boasts a Spine Wrap OBI Strip featuring an album foreword penned by renown music journalist David Ma. Vinyl ispressed in a stunning Viridian Marble color configuration withhand-numbered center labels.

Critical Praise:
The albums songs are a seamless blanket of hypnotizing loopsmade from dusky vibraphone, misty keys, and shimmeringcymbals. This is hip-hop as intimate, late-night jazz club music.The MCs likewise stick to the task of writing within the albums
conceptual framework. -Bandcamp
74: Out Of Time lives up to its title. When music can often seem like fast food, this feels anachronisticsomething from the preemaildays of collaboration, with 70s afternoon Jazz soundscomplemented by laid-back raps aimed at your synapse. –
Ambrosia for Heads
The paradox at the center of Ol Burger Beats latest collection of songs is that the Norwegian hip-hop producer and curator ofemcees is able to make the listener feel like theyresimultaneously living in 1974 and 2024 at any given momentacross 74: Out of Times 17 tracks. -FLOOD Magazine