Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Hooked Up Classics Artist_Clarence Reid

Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Hooked Up Classics Artist_Clarence ReidShawn Lee dons his Ping Pong Orchestra hat for an album inspired by the Hooked On Classics series of the early 1980s. This popular series of albums (arranged by Louis Clark of Electric Light Orchestra fame) took well known classical pieces and gave them a contemporary re working, mostly adding a disco flavor. Lee throws his new musical twist on the idea, taking 12 favorite classical tracks and squeezing them through the Ping Pong Orchestra machine.

" each of which clocks in at over six minutes

as well as using them in his award-winning work as a radio producer and soundtrack composer

” while handclaps and danceable drums incite the listener to follow his command: “If you hear me

together they provide the definitive introduction to the singular world of Kazuki Tomokawa

On "Soulmates" his compositions hosted the cream of the hip-hop crop: Abstract Rude

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showcasing his musicianship while intriguingly laying bare his personal artistic processes

Two years later

Mediterranean harmonies

recorded in isolation at his temporary home studio in Toronto

“ There’s a Herbert-like warmth to the cut n’paste style of the more uptempo “Bugs N’Fools“ and “Leaving Belief“ should please the ears of Jazzanova and Atjazz fans with their floor friendly beats

he has acted as musical director for global touring acts Black Milk and Slum Village and collaborated with Grammy-nominated artists including Jack White