Ol’ Burger Beats, 74: Out of Time - Reimagined

CANCELLED
1LP - COALMINE RECORDS
2025

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 is pressed on classic black discs with hand-numbered center labels.

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)


DESCRIPTION

Norwegian producer Ole-Birger Neergård revisits 74: 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.
Neergård’s minimalistic approach contains multitudes, tracks with high levels of organization in its simplicity, with a jazz- anchored tapestry that also includes YUNGMORPHEOUS, 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 OBB’s fluid arrangements, which can be bold when bare yet richly layered during flourishing moments. -David Ma


Critical Praise:
The album’s songs are a seamless blanket of hypnotizing loops made from dusky vibraphone, misty keys, and shimmering cymbals. This is hip-hop as intimate, late-night jazz club music. The MCs likewise stick to the task of writing within the album’s conceptual framework.” -Bandcamp
“’74: Out Of Time’ lives up to its title. When music can often seem like fast food, this feels anachronistic—something from the pre- email days of collaboration, with ’70s afternoon Jazz sounds complemented 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 of emcees is able to make the listener feel like they’re simultaneously living in 1974 and 2024 at any given moment across 74: Out of Time’s 17 tracks.” -FLOOD Magazine