Pay a Visit to the Los Angeles Studio of Adrian Younge, A Renaissance Man of Vintage Soul




The Checkout show

Summary: Before Adrian Younge was writing orchestral music with a hip-hop flair, he was a law professor by day and a DJ by night. During this period, he became obsessed with classic soul from 1968 to 1973 — music that he says resonated in ways this country had never seen before. Younge, a multi-instrumentalist from Los Angels, aspires toward a similar feeling on his new album, The Midnight Hour, with Ali Shaheed Muhammad from A Tribe Called Quest. “1968 to 1973 was a pivotal moment in our time culturally