Music in Context.
Adrian Younge vs. Adrian Quesada (EP)
Record Store Day is synonymous with exclusive and limited releases and
this year is no different. Featuring a collaboration EP with Adrian
Younge from Venice Dawn and Black Dynamite fame and Adrian Quesada from
The Echocentrics, Ocote Soul Sounds, Brownout and grammy-winning Grupo
Fantasma.
A first name is not all Adrian Younge and Adrian
Quesada share, they also both have an equal love of the psychedelic, the
cinematic and at the root of it all, soul music. So it was inevitable
that a collaboration would eventually come to fruition. Mutual admirers
of each others work, they first met at the SXSW music festival while on
the same bill. Both began their production careers on MPC and taught
themselves various instruments to further capture the symphonies heard
in their heads.
Fresh off his current solo project "Something
About April" under the moniker Venice Dawn, Adrian Younge found time to
create all new tracks with Adrian Quesada who just released his
"Echoland" tribute to Timbaland with the Echocentrics. Although both are
distinct artists in their own right, they are cut from the same cloth
with a signature sound that's equal parts Morricone, early Portishead,
Wu-Tang and 60's psychedelic cinema soundtracks. Their combined efforts
on this EP guarantees a double dose of the sound we have come to expect
from these talented individuals.