L’Orange’s The Ordinary Man is a concept album that follows the life a magician living at the beginning of the 1900s. The magician rises to success and then becomes disillusioned which is reflected on the album. Del The Funky Homosapien and Elzhi are two of the guests and L’Orange also has his first collaboration with label mate Oddisee. The Ordinary Man is L’Orange’s third studio album.

[youtube id=”b0hxmaQp7kI”] L’Orange and Mr. Lif deliver the last video from their Life and Death of Scenery album with “The Gentle End” directed by Jon Webb. Actress Xinyi Zhu stars in the clip as the main character who settles deeply into escapism.

North Carolina producer L’Orange and Mr. Lif announced their collaboration album, The Life & Death Of Scenery, today. “Strange Technology” is the first publicly shared sound from the project and the song includes Mr. Lif’s fellow Perceptionists member Akrobatik and San Diego artist Gonjasufi. The Life & Death Of Scenery comes out digitally on October 7th via Adult Swim and Mello Music Group will release physical copies on October 14th.

[youtube id=”r7DcMCOu71Q”] L’Orange and Kool Keith’s abstract video for “The Green Ray” is a melange of UFOs, analog equipment, anime and spaceships that move in time with the lethargic saxophone and b-boy rhythm. The song and video are more of Keith’s longstanding Afrofuturist style where past, present and future are mediated by technology and the boom-bap. “The Green Ray” is from L’Orange’s Time? Astonishing!