L'Orange is a North Carolina-born beatmaker with a penchant for sampling early jazz records and vintage radio broadcasts, lending a nostalgic, time-worn quality to his music. After starting his career with a few primarily instrumental solo releases such as 2012's The Mad Writer, his first full-length rap collaboration was 2013's The City Under the City, with Stik Figa. Since then, he has released masterful efforts with Kool Keith (Time? Astonishing!, 2015), Mr. Lif (The Life & Death of Scenery, 2016), and others, as well as solo ventures like 2017's The Ordinary Man. He's issued a trio of albums with Solemn Brigham as the duo Marlowe, as well as a full-length with Nashville rapper Namir Blade (2021's Imaginary Everything) and a remix effort with Joell Ortiz (2023's Signature).