Adrian Younge

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Adrian Younge

| image = Adrian Younge on Casa Comedy TV.jpg

| caption = Younge in 2018

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|05|07}}

| origin = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

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Psychedelic soul{{cite web |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/adrian-younge-kicks-off-produced-by-series-with-georgia-anne-muldrow-terrace-martin-collab/ |title=Adrian Younge kicks off "Produced By" series with Georgia Anne Muldrow & Terrace Martin collab |last=Sacher |first=Andrew |date=February 1, 2019 |publisher=Brooklyn Vegan |access-date=2023-02-09 |quote=Amazon Music's "Produced By" series continues with psychedelic soul great Adrian Younge.}}
retro-soul{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/style/retro-soul-ma0000011953/artists|title=Retro Soul|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=November 9, 2020}}
hip hop

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| label = Linear Labs

| website = https://linearlabsmusic.com

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Adrian Younge (born May 7, 1978){{cite web |last1=Younge |first1=Adrian |title=Enjoying this day with some special friends. |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BFH4WXmRxbQ |website=Instagram.com |access-date=9 February 2022}} is an American composer, arranger and music producer based in the Los Angeles area.

Background

Younge grew up in Fontana, California, United States. His father is a lawyer and Younge himself earned a Juris Doctor degree from the American College of Law in Orange County.{{cite web|website=Medium.com|url=https://medium.com/cuepoint/meet-the-soulful-composer-who-loves-being-sampled-58e0f5ca1b6e|title=Meet the Soulful Composer Who Loves Being Sampled |date=30 December 2014|author=Fintoni, Laurent |access-date=4 September 2018}} Younge has worked as a lawyer and law professor—having taught entertainment law at his alma mater.{{Cite web|date=2013-04-18|title=Adrian Younge: New Soul Legend|url=https://www.laweekly.com/adrian-younge-new-soul-legend/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-24|website=LA Weekly|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202103945/https://www.laweekly.com/adrian-younge-new-soul-legend/ |archive-date=2020-12-02 }}{{Cite web|last1=Harding|first1=Nate|last2=Sloan|first2=Charlie|date=2021-02-16|title=In Adrian Younge's Ambitious New Project, James Baldwin Meets Marvin Gaye|url=https://www.vulture.com/2021/02/interview-adrian-younge-the-american-negro-analog.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-24|website=Vulture|language=en-us|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216193948/https://www.vulture.com/2021/02/interview-adrian-younge-the-american-negro-analog.html |archive-date=2021-02-16 }}{{Cite web|last=Porter|first=Michael Lorenzo|date=March 19, 2018|title=World-renowned Composer And Producer Adrian Younge Opens Up About Music And Entrepreneurship|url=https://www.hereyouare.com/los-angeles/world-renowned-composer-and-producer-adrian-younge-opens-up-about-music-and-entrepreneurship/|url-status=live|website=HEREYOUARE Los Angeles|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921190649/https://www.hereyouare.com/los-angeles/world-renowned-composer-and-producer-adrian-younge-opens-up-about-music-and-entrepreneurship/ |archive-date=2020-09-21 }} Early in his career, Younge worked for the legal department of MTV.{{Cite web|last=Fintoni|first=Laurent|date=2014-12-30|title=Meet the Soulful Composer Who Loves Being Sampled|url=https://medium.com/cuepoint/meet-the-soulful-composer-who-loves-being-sampled-58e0f5ca1b6e|access-date=2021-02-24|website=Medium|language=en}}

Music career

Younge edits and scores films.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/adrian-younge-mn0001646944|title=Adrian Younge|website=AllMusic|access-date=12 March 2013}} He played bass and keyboards in a band during the late 1990s, and began composing after sampling records with an MPC. He quickly learned to play several instruments and experimented with analog recordings which resulted in the Italian influenced Venice Dawn, which he released on EP. In 2009, his soundtrack for the film Black Dynamite{{cite web|website=Newsli.com |url=http://www.newsli.com/2009/11/17/interview-with-black-dynamite-composereditor-adrian-younge|title=Interview With Black Dynamite Composer/Editor Adrian Younge|date=17 November 2009|author=Boyle, Christopher|access-date=12 March 2013}} was released on the Wax Poetics label.{{cite web|url=http://www.waxpoetics.com/wax-poetics-artists/adrian-younge|title=Adrian Younge|publisher=Wax Poetic Records|access-date=12 March 2013|archive-date=21 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321075532/http://www.waxpoetics.com/wax-poetics-artists/adrian-younge|url-status=dead}} In 2011 Younge revived and expanded Venice Dawn into a longer work called Something about April. In 2013 he released Adrian Younge Presents the Delfonics{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/03/04/172983631/first-listen-the-delfonics-adrian-younge-presents-the-delfonics|title=First Listen: The Delfonics, 'Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics'|publisher=NPR|author=Kelley, Frannie|date=4 March 2013|access-date=12 March 2013}} and Twelve Reasons to Die with Ghostface Killah.{{cite web|website=Spin.com |url=https://www.spin.com/2012/09/ghostface-killah-announces-new-lp-twelve-reasons-to-die/|title=Ghostface Killah Announces New LP 'Twelve Reasons to Die'|date=14 September 2012|author=Hogan, Marc|access-date=12 March 2013}} Younge also operates a vinyl record store in Los Angeles called Artform Studio. Younge, along with Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, produced Kendrick Lamar's "untitled 06" song featuring CeeLo Green, which was later reworked into the track "Questions" from the 2018 album The Midnight Hour. Younge and Ali also co-founded the Jazz Is Dead record label in 2017.

In 2021, Younge released the album The American Negro, as well as produced the podcast "Invisible Blackness".{{Cite magazine|last=Shaffer|first=Claire|date=2021-02-02|title=Adrian Younge Announces New Album 'The American Negro,' Shares Title Track|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/adrian-younge-american-negro-1122284/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-24|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202140653/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/adrian-younge-american-negro-1122284/ |archive-date=2021-02-02 }} Both projects were launched during Black History Month and each seeks to highlight the systemic racism that African Americans have endured in the United States and the psychological toll that results. The podcast features speakers such as Chuck D, Ladybug Mecca, Keyon Harrold and Michael Jai White.{{Cite web|title=Adrian Younge Announces 'The American Negro' Out Feb. 26|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Adrian-Younge-Announces-The-American-Negro-Out-Feb-26-20210202|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-24|website=BroadwayWorld.com|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203104822/https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Adrian-Younge-Announces-The-American-Negro-Out-Feb-26-20210202 |archive-date=2021-02-03 }}{{Cite news|date=2021-02-24|title='Lynching was treated as a celebratory event': Adrian Younge on the history of US racism|url=http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/feb/24/lynching-was-treated-as-a-celebratory-event-adrian-younge-on-the-history-of-us-racism|access-date=2021-02-24|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en}}

Discography

2000: Venice Dawn EP
2009: Black Dynamite (Score)
2010: "Passion" from Long Term 2 (Ab-Soul)
2010: "Don't Matter (Over There)" from Entrapment (Big Remo)
2011: Adrian Younge presents Venice Dawn: Something about April
2011: "You're The One" from A Different World Mixtape (Phil Ade)
2012: Dark Soul Mix
2012: "Mandated Participants" from Mandatory Brunch Meetings (Mayhem Lauren)
2012: "Feszultseg" from Mennydorges (Barbarfiverek)
2013: Adrian Younge presents The Delfonics
2013: Adrian Younge presents Twelve Reasons to Die (Ghostface Killah)
2013: "Picasso Baby" and "Heaven" from Magna Carta... Holy Grail (Jay-Z)
2013: "The One" from Albert Einstein (Prodigy)
2013: "Demonology" from Gravitas (Talib Kweli)
2014: Adrian Younge presents There is Only Now (Souls of Mischief)
2014: PRhyme (DJ Premier and Royce da 5'9")
2014: "Crushed Egos" and "Ruckus in B Minor" from A Better Tomorrow (Wu-Tang Clan)
2014: "7 Deadly Sins" and "Out on Bond" from Nobody's Smiling (Common)
2014: "Visual Camouflage" from In Death Reborn (Army of the Pharaohs)
2015: Adrian Younge presents Twelve Reasons to Die II (Ghostface Killah)
2015: In Another Life (Bilal)
2015: "Skipping Stones" from Ology (Gallant and Jhene Aiko)
2016: "Prey'er" from Prey for the Devil (Bambu)
2016: "untitled 06 | 06.30.2014" from Untitled Unmastered (Kendrick Lamar)
2016: Something About April II
2016: The Electronique Void: Black Noise (Jack Waterson)
2016: "JoHn Muir" from Blank Face LP (Schoolboy Q)
2016: Luke Cage (Original Soundtrack Album) (with Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2016: "I Changed My Mind" (Adrian Younge Remix) (Lyrics Born)
2016: "Changeling II" (Adrian Younge Remix) (DJ Shadow)
2016: "Keisha" from Kairi Chanel (Dave East)
2016: "Parade" from Halloween Havoc 3 (Lloyd Banks)
2017: "I Pray" from Friday On Elm St (Fabulous and Jadakiss)
2017: "Swear to God" from Plata O Plomo (Fat Joe and Remy Ma)
2018: "People Watchin'" from September 2018 - EP (Mila J)
2018: "Love Is Love" from In Celebration of Us (Skyzoo)
2018: Adrian Younge Presents: Voices of Gemma (Rebecca Engelhart and Brooke deRosa)
2018: Luke Cage: Season 2 (Original Soundtrack Album) (with Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2018: The Midnight Hour (with Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2019: Adrian Younge Presents: Jack Waterson (with Jack Waterson)
2020: Jazz is Dead 001 (with Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2020: Roy Ayres JID002 (with Roy Ayers and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2020: Marcos Valle JID003 (with Marcos Valle and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2020: Azymuth JID004 (with Azymuth and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2020: Doug Carn JID005 (with Doug Carn and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2021: The American Negro
2021: Gary Bartz JID006 (with Gary Bartz and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2021: João Donato JID007 (with João Donato and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2021: Brian Jackson JID008 (with Brian Jackson and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2021: Instrumentals JID009 (with Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2021: Remixes JID010
2022: Jazz is Dead 011 (with Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2022: Jean Carne JID012 (with Jean Carne and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2022: Katalyst JID013 (with Katalyst and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2022: Henry Franklin JID014 (with Henry Franklin and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2022: Garrett Saracho JID015 (with Garrett Saracho and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2023: Phil Ranelin & Wendel Harrison JID016 (with Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2023: Lonnie Liston Smith JID017 (with Lonnie Liston Smith and Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2023: Tony Allen JID018 (with Tony Allen (musician))
2023: Instrumentals JID019 (with Ali Shaheed Muhammad)
2023: Remixes JID020 (with Ali Shaheed Muhammad)

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Category:1978 births

Category:African-American film score composers

Category:American film score composers

Category:American film editors

Category:American soul musicians

Category:Living people

Category:American male film score composers

Category:Psychedelic soul musicians

Category:Record producers from California

Category:21st-century African-American musicians

Category:20th-century African-American musicians