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Adrian Younge - Adrian Younge Presents Linear Labs: São Paulo

Adrian Younge - Adrian Younge Presents Linear Labs: São Paulo on LP vinyl. A 2024 World / Latin record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · 2024

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2024 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Adrian Younge Presents Linear Labs: São Paulo is a 2024 preview-map of Younge's next creative phase, gathering unreleased or forward-pointing material from projects orbiting his Linear Labs world. It opens the door to Portuguese-language Something About April III material, a Snoop Dogg blaxploitation adventure, Afrobeat and disco ideas, Middle Eastern psych-funk with Liraz, Brazilian colour with Samantha Schmütz, orchestral instrumental writing, ALA.NI, Bilal and Laetitia Sadier. That range could have become a sampler with no centre, but Younge's production signature holds it together: analog recording discipline, cinematic soul, thick bass, vintage keys, orchestral gestures and a producer's obsession with records that feel outside their own decade. São Paulo is less a conventional album cycle than a curated dispatch from the studio, showing how many doors his sound can open at once.

The release matters because it documents Younge repositioning Linear Labs after the Jazz Is Dead run, using the compilation form to introduce several forthcoming worlds at once. It captures a producer-composer at a point of expansion, with Brazilian, psych-soul, orchestral and hip-hop threads all active.

For collectors, São Paulo is important as a Linear Labs signpost: not just another Adrian Younge LP, but a guide to the projects and collaborators shaping his next period. It is especially strong for shelves focused on modern soul, library-minded production and global psych-funk crossovers.

Analog cinematic soul with Brazilian and psych-funk colour, orchestral flourishes, heavy bass, vintage keyboards, dusty drums, multilingual vocals and soundtrack-like transitions.

Recommended for: Adrian Younge and Linear Labs collectors; Fans of modern psychedelic soul and cinematic funk; Listeners following Jazz Is Dead-adjacent production; Collectors interested in Snoop Dogg, Bilal, Liraz and Laetitia Sadier collaborations.

What is Linear Labs: São Paulo? It is a 2024 Adrian Younge compilation presenting new songs tied to forthcoming or related Linear Labs projects. Which collaborators appear on the album? The programme includes appearances or project links with Snoop Dogg, Liraz, Samantha Schmütz, ALA.NI, Bilal and Laetitia Sadier. How does it fit Adrian Younge's catalogue? It acts as a studio dispatch from his Linear Labs world, connecting psychedelic soul, orchestral production, Brazilian influence and hip-hop storytelling.