Essential Music & Marketing has signed LA-based record label Linear Labs for physical and digital distribution and marketing in Europe.

Founded by composer/producer Adrian Younge, Linear Labs is to launch with the August release of hip hop group Souls Of Mischief’s sixth studio album, There Is Only Now.

Younge is also working on new material with Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah, with whom he previously collaborated on the mafia-horror concept album Twelve Reasons To Die, released by Soul Temple Records.