You just know that if the Zombies arrived as you were completing a jittery Nu Jazzy cut they’ll get their glam rags on and start up one of their odd break dance routines with a bit of Voguing thrown in. Asymmetric chord and key shifts are the order of the day and one of those […]
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The Carousel sits waiting for its next set of riders. Calm before the storm. The mood is anticipating and the soundtrack emerges from the ancient pipe organ set in the heart of the machine. A million times this music has played. Over and over like an OLDr track in a KooLr playlist. Waltzing to and
Penned in 1990. Sat in the closet. Came out of the closet, got dusted off and was moulded into a slice of modern croontastic soulful bliss. Big fat beats meets something sexy from the seventies and you know how sexy the seventies were. Oozing slinky brass and string orchestration, silky BVs, rock solid rhythm section
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Original composition by Lance and Pete written thirty years ago but never released. This is a whole new production that embraces the traditional vibes of the writing but cloaks it in a big fat juicy modern master. The song is about loneliness induced by unreciprocated love and longing. The vibe is Deodatoesque 70s nostalgia meets
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OLDr and Pete Pritchard return to their soulful vocal roots with an original song. As usual with their work this breaches the boundaries of simplistic genre definition and straddles Soul, Jazz and modern Beats. A full arrangement and lush harmonies create the backdrop for the soaring falsetto vocals. Find a key is about how to
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OLDr’s first instrumental release after supplying vibes for the tracks made with Lance Ellington and Pete Pritchard this is a slice of Bluesy LoFi Jazz Hop hovering between the electronic and the analogue and organic Jazz with Vibe Shiftr. OLDr likes playing with genres and twisting expectations without playing all the rules and Vibe Shiftr
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Based upon the 1959 Nat King Cole arrangement of this classic song with the addition of a big fat old school hip hop beat. Lance croons and Pete tunes. This is a big evolution for the Lance Ellington and Pete Pritchard musical collaboration as it’s a cover and it also hints at the new material
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This is a teaser. Its the instrumental for a future release by OLDr which will have Lance Ellington on vocals performing the classic but this is where it starts. A hip Hopped, looped up version of Nat King Cole’s classic version. Sonically warm and inviting. OLDr will only be slightly older when the full version
You lucky KooLr people have the pleasure of not 1, not 2, but 3 tracks this week. Enjoy the gift of music in your Christmas #KooLr streamings. OLDr with Pete Pritchard and Lance Ellington. The track was created in the lock down of 2021 as Lance and Pete were putting the finishing touches to the
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OLDr “ Party Like It’s 2022” So. As 2021 progressed we decided to advance our ambitions a bit with our first release and turn it into Party Like It’s 2022. Sure, this is only one year later but one year in a pandemic with emotions ebbing and flowing is a big deal and we felt
