Mylar Melodies is someone I'll happily say was partly responsible for me getting into modular synths. Alongside the likes of James Cigler and Raul's World Of Synths there wasn't much content online for the eager newbie to check out. Like most I went through a 'filter junkie' stage and I'm sure most of us are still firmly in that stage of synth equipment use ... we all love a low pitched saw through a resonant low pass! Two videos stuck out to me as a real "you have to get into eurorack" moments. First the Livewire Frequensteiner click HERE for that video or hit play below. The second was his video for the Wiard/Malekko Borg 2 filter which you can see HERE or again hit play on the embedded video below.
Not too long after these videos Mylar Melodies was working with Future Music magazine and "met" online and started talking not long after that. Mylar handed over the video and some of the in magazine article duties to me as he cut back on work for Future Music (thanks again for that one!) as I think it's fair to say videos slowed down ... he's a busy boy and you know, life and that! Anyway he's back with a plan, a killer new video so I wanted to ask him some questions for you fine people to get to know him a bit too.
So Mr. Mylar Melodies let's go back to the start, when did you get into electronic music, and what got you into modular?
Man, it’s quite a long road. I’ve been making electronic music in one form or another using hardware since around 2000, after a somewhat distant yet deeply kindly relative left me some money in their will, which I put towards getting my first stereo. What better thing to do with money, other than travel - right? My brothers had been drip feeding me music to see if they could push my musical tastes in their directions, and to be honest I was a late bloomer and didn’t really find any music I particularly loved until I was around 16/17. They played me old Orbital, and I remember thinking...hang on, what’s this?! How on earth is this done. Like, how you think the people who make this stuff must have some kind of illicit skills - it’s impossible.