UMG - Thomas Cheval - Thomas Cheval - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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.

Thomas Grimmonprez - Bleu [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 11/10/2009

East Haiti Baby is the second studio album from Paper Route EMPIRE artist, Big Moochie Grape, and first full-length solo offering since 2020's Eat Or Get Ate. Heavily steeped in the Memphis underground tradition, Big Moochie Grape has drawn comparisons to Memphis' own Project Pat, as well as southern rap legend, Gucci Mane. Making it a true family affair and keeping features in-house, the 15-track album sees appearances from Kenny Muney, Key Glock, and the late PRE head honcho, Young Dolph. Production is largely handled by PRE sound architect, Bandplay, as well as Sosa 808, Ayoza and more.