Why We Bleep 014: James Young - Darkstar

Today we meet James Young, one half of thoroughly sound Warp Records duo Darkstar. We talk about the myriad struggles and beautiful collaboration of making electronic music, of releasing records, of the Norf, about Spotify and the Elektron Digitakt, of Eventides and the perils of playing live, the power of volunteering, and much more besides.
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[@InkyDaCaT]

Great interview with James. Its great how open and honest he was and helps us to know you don't need a moog one to make great music...thanks both...happy music makin!

[@antennatrees]

Thanks for doing these interviews. They deserve more views and likes.

[@mylarmelodies]

Thanks bud. Tell your mates!! x

[@baremagicfeet1070]

Thanks. Great interview!

[@robertsyrett1992]

Oh wow! Time to bleep until I sleep, because I'm an expert sleeper.

[@InkyDaCaT]

And...he's definitely right about the mpc work flow...I bought live a year ago and now mapping weird polyphony and glide stuff to launch control...as a performance tool it rocks!! (my last video if your intrested)

[@teezdalien]

Hi Mylar, this was another really great conversation and I love hearing artists discuss their ideas and process. I was surprised when you were discussing the Digitakt around 1 hour 20 min mark, where you say it's only monophonic, and you're right on a per track basis. I always thought it was polyphonic albeit limited with the four notes, but yeah one can't really overlap say two notes on one track. I guess you could dedicate several midi tracks to achieve better poly behaviour though. Keep up the great work man!

[@synthshoot1026]

Thanks. cool interview. Beautiful place and setup too.

[@emafrnk]

good insights lovely talk love darkstar, thanks for doing this

[@lennartverhoeff]

I think he was talking about Sugabytes Effectrix.plugin around the 40 minute mark. Great little sequenced fx plugin. Kinda like the dBlue Glitch. Good times ^^

[@orkoclick]

Was thinking the same.

[@mylarmelodies]

Yep he was!

[@jbowmanmusic]

This is quality

[@willvine4921]

But who owns the audio from Endlesssssssssd ?

[@koshimazakisound]

This is awesome interview @mylarmelodies love how laid back and down to earth it is. You gotta try Digitone it goes well with Digitakt and is even better as a machine.

[@mylarmelodies]

Ta - yeah totally have my eye on it, love the idea of the digitone - the world needs more FM synths

[@koshimazakisound]

​@@mylarmelodies indeed, its ace! i need to check Timefactor and Pitchfactor now, have Space and absolutely love it!

[@mylarmelodies]

They’re amazing - especially Pitchfactor which gets totally overlooked, but then I am a sucker for pitched delay

[@Echolox]

Great shoutout! The whole hour of Endlesss ambience goodness can be listened to here: www.twitch.tv/videos/444503124

[@thedrumunkey8582]

I want to play in the techno army band

[@adambutler2465]

what eventide bit of kit were these guys talking about?

[@mylarmelodies]

PitchFactor and TimeFactor!

[@lindsaywebb1904]

I think he means the H3000

[@adambutler2465]

Lindsay Webb that’s the one Lindsay thanks

[@mylarmelodies]

@@adambutler2465 We talk about all three...