Delfonics - Adrian Younge Presents: The Delfonics - VINYL LP

Album Tracks 1. Stop and Look (And You Have Found Love) [Instrumental] 2. Lost Without You (Instrumental) 3. True Love (Instrumental) 4. Silently (Instrumental) 5. Enemies (Instrumental) 6. To Be Your One (Instrumental) 7. Stand Up (Instrumental) 8. Just Love (Instrumental) 9. So in Love with You (Instrumental) 10. I Can't Cry No More (Instrumental) 11. Lover's Melody (Instrumental) 12. Party's Over (Instrumental) 13. Life Never Ends (Instrumental)

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. Album Tracks 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

The third from Jazz Is Dead records is features Marcos Valle, one of the greatest and most important composers, arrangers, writers and performers in Brazilian history. A jack of all trades, Valle has produced works in many musical styles, including bossa nova, samba, and fusions of rock, soul, jazz, and more. Composed and produced by Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad and recorded in the Linear Labs analog studio. Album Tracks 1. Queira Bem 2. Isso É Que Eu Sei 3. Oi 4. Viajando Por Aí 5. Gotta Love Again 6. Não Saia Da Praça 7. Our Train 8. A Gente Volta Amanhã