Linear Labs

The brainchild of producer @AdrianYounge, Linear Labs is an Los Angeles based label born out of the analog aesthetic of his recording studio.

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Bob Moog explaining the basics of analog synthesis, from a 1980s BBC documentary. The architect of the Moog synthesizer, an instrument that fundamentally altered the sound of popular music, from jazz to funk, soul, and electronic music as we know it today.

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Al Green and Chicago performing "Tired of Being Alone" at Caribou Ranch, Colorado, 1973.

Green was recording nearby when he heard the band rehearsing his song and walked in. Filmed for the Chicago in the Rockies TV special.

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"Feel the High Life" out now on all platforms.

Vinyl available for preorder.
🔗 https://t.co/E7RauLFClJ

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Another look at the making of Afro-Disco Makossa.

A sonic patchwork of Afrobeat, funk, and disco built strictly for the dance floor. The sound of a Ghanaian producer in '76 making a disco record for his hometown, rooted in the rhythms of West Africa and built to move.

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Stevie was among the first musicians to acquire one, directly from Roger Linn himself.

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Stevie Wonder performing "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It" live at Abbey Road Studios, 1980.

Featuring the Linn LM-1, the first drum machine to use sampled acoustic sounds and one of only a few hundred units ever built.

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@AdrianYounge @REALDJPREMIER @common @stereolabgroop @Bilal @RaphaelSaadiq @Lorenoden Something About April III (2025): The album Adrian always wanted to make. Fifteen years in the making, fueled by a 30-piece orchestra, analog synthesizers, and Brazilian vocalists caroling psychedelic melodies in Portuguese.

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The Something About April Trilogy.

Three albums, over a decade of analog soul, that traces his evolution as a composer, producer, and artist. Now available together as a special vinyl bundle.

Available now at
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@AdrianYounge @REALDJPREMIER @common Something About April II (2016): Dark American soul meets classic European cinema. Featuring Laetitia Sadier of @stereolabgroop, @Bilal, @RaphaelSaadiq, and @Lorenoden. Looking into the past to create the future.

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@AdrianYounge The kind of song Adrian envisioned David Axelrod and Charles Stepney creating with a Cannonball Adderley in '72. Something funky, jazzy, and rooted in the golden era of Black composers working at the intersection of soul, jazz, and classical music.

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@AdrianYounge recording "Respond to Sound" from his latest Linear Labs album, Younge.

Streaming everywhere. Available on vinyl & CD.
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Opened earlier that year by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, the studio would go on to host Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, the Staple Singers, and Etta James, among countless other legends.

From the documentary, Gimme Shelter (1970).

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The Rolling Stones listening to playback of "Wild Horses" inside Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, December 1969.

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Paul McCartney recording "Blackbird" at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, June 11, 1968. The same room that shaped some of the most important recordings of the 20th century.

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@AdrianYounge The soundtrack of his life, now on wax.

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The Younge vinyl is here.

A fully instrumental album composed, produced, written, and mixed by @AdrianYounge. Nine movements of jazz-funk, cinematic orchestration, psychedelia, and action-noir, recorded straight to tape at Linear Labs in Los Angeles.

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J Dilla in his basement studio in Detroit. Records wall to wall, floor to ceiling. The room where Erykah Badu, Common, and Questlove all came to work. Every sample, every chop started somewhere in those crates.

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@AdrianYounge "Feel the High Life" out now on all platforms.

Preorder vinyl at
🔗 https://t.co/E7RauLFClJ

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What would a Ghanaian producer in '76 have made if he set out to create a disco record for his hometown?

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That's the question at the heart of Afro-Disco Makossa, @AdrianYounge's upcoming project on Linear Labs. Rooted in the rhythms of West Africa and built for the dance floor. Not polished. Not perfect. A little off, by design.