Emmy-winning composer, musician, and producer Adrian Younge returns today with a new song, “Esperando Por Você”, and the announcement of a new album dropping 15 November via his own Linear Labs label.

With more than 35 albums to his name, the Jazz is Dead co-founder is known for his prolific output, and Linear Labs: São Paolo does nothing to dispel that reputation. Like 2015's Linear Labs: Los Angeles, it's more of a compilation than an album, because almost every track is actually a preview of another upcoming album that Younge has been making.

New single "Esperando por Você", for instance, is the first glimpse at the forthcoming Something About April III, which comes 8 years after the last entry in Younge’s most sampled works, and is sung entirely in Portuguese. 

Listen to it below:

Second song "Rules of the Game" introduces a new project from Snoop Dogg, described in the press release as a “blaxploitation adventure” called Don’t Cry for the Devil that finds the hip hop legend playing the role of a fictional ‘70s pimp named Silky Slim.

Other tracks preview new albums from Younge’s Afrobeat project Afrodisco Makossa (“Fire in the Disco”) and his instrumental project YOUNGE (“Human Absence”), as well as full-length collaborations with Middle Eastern singer Liraz (“Farrar Konam”, from the Farsi-language album Azadi), Brazilian actor and singer Samantha Schumütz (“Nossa Cor”, from the album Samantha e Adrian), and Parisian jazz singer ALA.NI (“Run”, from the album Proud).

There’s also a remastered version of "Spiraling" from an upcoming expanded reissue of In Another Life, the Kendrick Lamar-featuring album that Younge made with Bilal in 2015, and a bonus track featuring Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier ("Purification"). Bilal and Sadier have previously dueted on a couple of tracks from Younge's 2016 album Something About April II.

Writing in the press release for the new album, Younge says:

“For the last 30 years, I’ve studied rare and obscure records in an attempt to become the most unique producer in the world.   A world where I create music with no expiration date…a vortex where the composers of yesterday and today sonically meet to discuss the way that hip hop has informed modern ears…essentially, my music is for the heads. This is São Paulo!”

Linear Labs: São Paolo is out 15 November.