Black Dynamite [Original Score]

by Adrian Younge

Overview

Adrian Younge: law professor by day, music scholar, film editor, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and probably a few other things by night. Tapped by director Scott Sanders, Younge not only edited the Blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite but scored it, all the while playing over a dozen instruments -- from monophonic synthesizer to electric sitar -- and directing a session band with several male and female vocalists. Younge and his associates recorded the material with the intent to have it sound exactly like a score from the '70s, and they achieved that. No piece of equipment used in the recording dated from later than the late '70s, and Younge's knowledge of '70s Black music -- blaxploitation scores in particular, obviously -- is astonishing. He skillfully walks a creative tightrope, incorporating virtually all the trademarks of an early-'70s blaxploitation score without being overly referential. These songs are far too durable to be disregarded as kitsch. All of them are worthy of Black Dynamite, a man who "put Nixon on the run," "killed them dirty crooks," and "beat the devil with a shovel three times a day." ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	01/24/2025
Label:	Linear Labs
UPC:	0617308084412

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Adrian Younge   Primary Artist,Cello,Drums,Flute,Viola,Congas,Clavinet,Percussion,Sax (Alto),Vibraphone,Harpsichord,Sax (Tenor),Synthesizer,Fender Rhodes,Sax (Baritone),Bass (Electric),Organ (Hammond),Piano (Electric),Sitar (Electric),Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Sir Charles Hughes   Primary Artist
Michael Wait   Fuzz Guitar
Quentin Oden   Drums
Troyvoi Hicks   Vocals (Background)
Dayvora Pagcanlungan & the Pagcanlungan Group   Vocals
Jack Waterson   Drums
Toni Scruggs   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
LaVan Davis   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Jeremy Jeffers   Fender Rhodes
Dionne Gipson   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Tommy Davidson   Vocals,Featured Artist
Alfredo Fratti   Guitar (Electric)
C.E. Garcia   Wah Wah Guitar,Bass (Electric),Guitar (Electric)
Loren Oden   Vocals,Vibraphone,Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Byron Minns   Interlude,Introduction
Michael Jai White   Composer
Suckapunch   Editing
Troyvoi Hicks   Vocal Arrangement
Scott Sanders   Composer
Andrew Lojero   Executive Producer
Toni Scruggs   Composer,Vocal Arrangement
Dave Cooley   Mixing
LaVan Davis   Vocal Arrangement
Paul Grosso   Design,Art Direction
Adrian Younge   Mixing,Arranger,Composer,Producer,Liner Notes
Dionne Gipson   Composer,Vocal Arrangement
David Choe   Cover Illustration
Sir Charles Hughes   Composer
David Hollander   Executive Producer
Loren Oden   Composer,Vocal Arrangement