Adrian Younge's new project sounds like James Baldwin meets Marvin Gaye

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Adrian Younge is a producer for entertainment greats ranging from Jay Z and Kendrick Lamar to the Wu Tang clan, a composer for television shows such as Marvel's Luke Cage (with A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Mohammad), and owner of the Linear Labs record label and analog studio. Younge has a new mixed media project that breaks down the evolution of racism in America that he calls his “most important creative accomplishment.” A short film, T.A.N., and podcast, Invisible Blackness, accompany the album The American Negro (available Feb 26). Younge tells Switched on Pop how his experience as a law professor and his all-analog approach to recording resulted in a sound he describes as “James Baldwin hooked up with Marvin Gaye.” Music Discussed Adrian Younge - Revolutionize, The American Negro, Revisionist History, Black Lives Matter, Margaret Garner Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised More Additional production by Megan Lubin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.6	Welcome to Switched On Pop.
0:44.2	I'm musicologist Nate Sloan, and today we have a very exciting guest.
0:49.2	He's a member of the Midnight Hour.
0:51.4	He's produced for Entertainment Grates,
0:53.2	ranging from Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar to the Wu-Tang Clan.
0:56.8	He's composed for television shows such as Marvel's Luke Cage with Alicia Heed Muhammad,
1:02.2	and he owns the Linear Labs boutique record label and an analog studio
1:06.2	and he's co-owner of Jazz is Dead.
1:08.6	He's a new project that he calls his most important creative accomplishment.
1:12.7	We're eager to hear more about it.
1:14.5	Adrian Young, welcome to the show.
1:16.5	Hey, thank you, man. Glad to be here.
1:19.4	Adrian, you have a new multimedia body of work.
1:23.0	Yes.
1:23.5	What is it and what are the component pieces?
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