Adrian Younge - (PRESALE 5/22/26) Younge (VINYL) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Adrian Younge - (PRESALE 5/22/26) Younge (VINYL) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Younge
Artist: Adrian Younge Format: LP Release Date: 5/22/2026

Label: Linear Labs
Vendor: Secretly Distribution-Bwscd
Distributor: AMPED
UPC: 617308035766
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 5/22/2026
Product ID: LLAB1900.1

Weight: .5 lb

Description

Younge is Adrian Younge's magnum opus: an orchestral album written from the perspective of a hip hop producer, and a hip hop record composed with the discipline of classical and cinematic music. It reframes orchestral composition not as nostalgia, but as a living language built for reinterpretation.
Inspired by composers like Lalo Schifrin, David Axelrod, Ennio Morricone, Galt MacDermot, Bo Hansson, and later visionaries such as Portishead's Geoff Barrow, the album draws from a lineage of emotionally charged, forward-thinking music that quietly shaped hip hop decades later through sampling. These were records defined by tension, restraint, and atmosphere-qualities Younge places at the center of this work. Recorded entirely to tape at Linear Labs, Younge unfolds like a lost soundtrack from an alternate history: modular compositions, dramatic movements, and themes that feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic. The music anticipates reuse-it invites sampling, deconstruction, and dialogue-without ever feeling unfinished. Adrian Younge has spent years testing orchestral music in front of live audiences, refining how large ensembles communicate energy, space, and narrative. That experience is embedded in the record. Every arrangement breathes. Every silence matters. This is not orchestral music collaborating with hip hop. It is orchestral music as hip hop-spoken fluently across time.

Tracks
Credits

1 Portschute
2 Human Absence
3 Galt
4 Moon Traveling
5 Different Directions
6 Visual Assault
7 Respond to Sound
8 Clockwise
9 Il Mattino