Goodhood

What happens when you’re a music artist (or 2), working intensively on a highly anticipated album for months on end and not everything you do is good enough for the final cut? It doesn’t seem right that all that time be spent producing new sounds and creating what essentially becomes a final piece of art, only to shelve at least half of what took the time to make it. But, that’s development and that’s usually how it works.

Whilst Darkstar (aka James Young and Aiden Whalley) are busy in their Clapton studio, recording vocals and finishing up the long awaited debut album, soon to be released on Hyperdub, I’ve been lucky enough to hear snippets of the work in progress and some of the music that hasn’t quite made it to the end. James put rejected tune Automating out on the web for listening a couple weeks ago and today his attention was brought to THIS uncommissioned video rework by design blogger Visual Overdose. It’s good to see how even work in progress can reach out to people, not just the final package.

The sound of Automating is quite different to the album, which unlike most of their previous material, is very much vocal based.

Still no set date for the album release, but shouldn’t be long now folks!

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