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Ol' Burger Beats

Often plundering classic soul and spiritual and ambient jazz vinyl for woozy, resonant samples, Ole-Birger Neergård is a Norwegian hip hop producer and DJ who injects his creative collages with meaning beyond their seemingly relaxed vibe. Born in 1992, and raised in the picturesque village of Vatne, in western Norway -- an area defined by its idyllic green rolling hills and coastal views -- Neergård found his parents' record collection to be a rich source of inspiration. Soul, jazz and prog rock soundtracked his early years, a period that also saw Neergård divide his time between playing football -- to an eventual semi-professional level -- and learning jazz piano and alto sax. At nine years old, he became obsessed with Outkast's Stankonia and went on to collect CDs by rap heroes closer to home such as Sweden's Petter and Timbuktu. Neergård ultimately chose music over football, learning various piano scores by Chick Corea, Oscar Peterson and Jan Johansson to a proficient level, and going on to play sax in a band that covered artists such as Stevie Wonder and Weather Report. Fascinated by the relationship between jazz and hip hop, his first experience of sampling involved his parents' Chet Baker records and some primitive computer software. Before the end of his teens, Neergård became an avid record collector -- initially picking up cheap Norwegian jazz albums wherever he could find them -- amassing a personal vinyl archive of source material. In December 2012, just ahead of a relocation to Oslo, he self-issued a Christmas EP under the moniker Ol' Burger. Another EP, simply titled Demo Tape, followed in 2013 and, once in Oslo, he secured a job at The Garden record store. In October 2014, with assistance from The Soul Dojo, Neergård released High Rhodes, a debut album and his first record issued under the full Ol' Burger Beats name. Evident by its title, it was rich with Rhodes piano samples, while it led critics to draw comparisons to his influential predecessors Pete Rock and J Dilla. Two further EPs followed in 2015, Unreleased Instrumentals, on HHV, and Hovdebygda Blues, a collaboration with his boyhood heroes Side Brok. September 2016 brought Tidagersvarselet, an EP on Stundom Records alongside Kjartan Gaulfossen. In 2017, along with artists such as Fredfades, Ivan Ave and Yogisoul, Ol' Burger Beats joined the Oslo collective, Mutual Intentions, who helped issue his second full-length, Mind Games. That same year, he set up a home studio just outside of the city's Grünerløkka area. 2018 brought a self-released third album, Out of Sight, Out of Mind, and he closed that year with a remix of Jul pa Sunnmorsk's "Det Iyser I stille grender." 2019's Daybreaks came next and the following two years saw him immersed in further collaboration, firstly with Kjartan Gaulfossen again on the Hver Gang Nar EP. May 2020 saw the release of an EP with the South African-born rapper Vuyo titled All Yours. However, it was with their Jakarta-issued February 2021 full-length, Dialogue. -- a politically charged record based around spiritual jazz samples -- that their partnership really blossomed. That May, a Latin-flavored EP titled I Am Leaving, became Ol' Burger Beats' first material to be recorded with his sister, Née Pauline on lead vocals. The highly analog Loft appeared in early 2022, an instrumental hip hop album written in tribute to New York's '60s and '70s free and spiritual jazz movement. Two years on, 2024's 74: Out of Time found him in similarly reflective form, evoking the music and activism of 1974 -- entirely at 74bpm -- with the help of a plethora of rappers including Philadelphia's lojii and Berkeley's Lil B.
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