{"id":4874,"date":"2012-02-15T00:57:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T07:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2012-02-15T00:57:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T07:57:23","slug":"adrian-younge-presents-venice-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/adrian-younge-presents-venice-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"ADRIAN YOUNGE PRESENTS VENICE DAWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4875\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ADRIAN-YOUNGE-PRESENTS-VENICE-DAWN-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ADRIAN-YOUNGE-PRESENTS-VENICE-DAWN-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ADRIAN-YOUNGE-PRESENTS-VENICE-DAWN-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>ADRIAN YOUNGE PRESENTS VENICE DAWN<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Something About April<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>waxpoetics.com\/tag\/adrian-younge<\/p>\n<p>Before he earned plaudits for scoring the 2008 neo-blaxploitation flick <em>Black Dynamite<\/em>, Adrian Younge released <em>Venice Dawn<\/em>, conceptualized as a soundtrack for a film that didn\u2019t exist. <em>Something About April <\/em>is the sequel\u2014and again the producer and multi-instrumentalist reveals a crate-digger sensibility, using electric pianos, organs, fuzz-tone guitars, and heavy bass to show his love for freaky psychedelic soul and Spaghetti Western scores. Unlike the feel-good soul revivalists at, say, the Daptone label, Younge infuses even his most out-and-out love songs with \u201970s-appropriate malaise and paranoia. He\u2019s a product of the hip-hop generation, and the best of these cuts (among them the chillingly sexy funk instrumentals \u201cThunderstrike\u201d and \u201cSirens\u201d) are Wu-Tang Clan tracks waiting to happen.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADRIAN YOUNGE PRESENTS VENICE DAWN Something About April waxpoetics.com\/tag\/adrian-younge Before he earned plaudits for scoring the 2008 neo-blaxploitation flick Black Dynamite, Adrian Younge released Venice Dawn, conceptualized as a soundtrack for a film that didn\u2019t exist. Something About April is the sequel\u2014and again the producer and multi-instrumentalist reveals a crate-digger sensibility, using electric pianos, organs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[3046,196,3032,10159,3047,3048],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4876,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions\/4876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}