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Release Date: 10/20/2009
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 late than the late '70s, and
Younge's obvious 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 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, All Music Guide
;)
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