Sami Yenigun
Sami Yenigun is the Executive Producer of NPR's All Things Considered and the Consider This podcast. Yenigun works with hosts, editors, and producers to plan and execute the editorial vision of NPR's flagship afternoon newsmagazine and evening podcast. He comes to this role after serving as a Supervising Editor on All Things Considered, where he helped launch Consider This and oversaw the growth of the newsmagazine on new platforms.
Prior to joining All Things Considered, Yenigun edited NPR's Code Switch podcast, worked as a field producer for the Education Desk, and was deployed in various breaking news assignments for the network. In 2014, he was part of a team that won a Peabody Award for it's coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and in 2017, was on a team of Education reporters that won an NPR Murrow award for innovation.
Yenigun began at NPR in 2010 as a digital intern for NPR Music. He later joined NPR's Cultural Desk where he learned to produce and report for audio.
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"Peaches for the Baby" opens with a stabbing organ line that serves as the template for a track that's constantly shifting. Grey introduces rhythms for just long enough to set a foot tapping, before shifting to another infectious feel running parallel to the previous idea.
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Until this point, Black Milk's production was widely considered to be his greatest talent. And for good reason, the Detroit based artist cites fellow motor city native, the late great James Yancey (aka J Dilla), as one of his biggest role models.
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Five years in the making, The Books' new album finds the duo sculpting formless musical arrangements and once again capturing the imagination. Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong have developed tremendously as producers who push sound in unexpected places. Hear the duo's imaginative and experimental new album in its entirety until its release on July 20.
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Will Holland (a.k.a. Quantic) is now based in Cali, Colombia, where he started his latest project, Quantic Presents Flowering Inferno. Its new album, Dog With a Rope, features local musicians playing over his genre-blending production. Hear the album in its entirety until its release on July 13.
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Described by its composer as "surrealist hip-hop," Flying Lotus' latest album, Cosmogramma, is rooted in progressive jazz and heavily influenced by Alice Coltrane. It takes its name from a flat geometric figure called a cosmogram, used in some cultures to symbolize humanity's place in the universe.
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On March 26 and 27, the Ultra Music Festival closes out Miami's weeklong Winter Music Conference for electronic and dance music. The sounds coming from the stages at the annual festival are becoming increasingly diverse. Though the event's roots are in house, trance and techno, the 2010 line-up mirrors dance music's recent tendency to mix genres.