Main Stage - Live at Primavera Sound 2011, Barcelona
Darkstar
Warp, London
What do you get, if you put Roger Troutman, Kraftwerk, Radiohead and New Jersey garage don Todd Edwards in one jar and put it on the dubstep shelf? Most probably something like Darkstar. Named like a John Carpenter movie and first signed to London's premier dubstep-and-beyond label Hyperdub, the duo's combination of UK garage rhythms and more conventional song structures with robotic vocals and star-eyed synthesizers is sometimes overwhelmingly beautiful. Tipped for greatness by Radiohead, the old boy NME and of course Kode9, lately signed to seminal label Warp - the future seems to be a bright one for James Young, Aiden Whalley, and James Buttery. Here we have them with a live set at Primavera Sound 2011. What did they say about Carpenter's flick? Bombed out in space with a spaced out bomb!
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