YOUNG launch ‘Young then’ archival platform with rare and unreleased material from The xx, FKA Twigs, Koreless, Sampha and more!
Today, Young launch their new ‘Young then’ platform — an online resource that will start to archive the entire history, and future, of Young, now available at http://then.y-o-u-n-g.com.
Young’s history isn’t the usual narrative for an independent record label. Young, now a record label, music management company and music publisher, started out as Young Turks, a club night and rave. That live element has never really left their DNA, through week-long festivals and contemporary ballet events, it has always been a thread throughout their work.
In today’s hyper-connected world, archives can and perhaps should be illuminated rather than kept under wraps in temperature-controlled basements accessible only to librarians with latex gloves and leftover PPE.
‘Young then’ thus allows the label and its artists, people, friends and collaborators to restore, remember and re-present items and memories that exist beyond the limits of what culture routinely records. Just because it didn’t appear on record, is not to say there’s not a story worth telling; and so ‘Young then’ aims to preserve and make visible that which is ordinarily lost.
For the public, then, the airlock has been opened and an invitation to step back in time extended. And for the label, it’s an opportunity — a chance to restore, remaster and [re]publish items that have been lost or missed amidst the constant pressure to progress into the future.
then.y-o-u-n-g.com launches today with:
A new documentary by Jamie-James Medina on The xx’s NYC Armory shows of 2014.
A love story re-issued on vinyl from 2011, Sampha and Jessie Ware’s ‘Valentine’.
Rarely seen video performances by FKA twigs and Caroline Polachek and newly-restored photographs from a once-in-a-lifetime NYE festival in Mexico.
New recordings of Koreless performing ‘Sun’ and ‘Never’ with a string quintet at BBC’s Maida Vale in 2013.
A new film that captures the 2019 iteration of the ongoing collaboration between Young and Sharon Eyal’s dance company L-E-V.
The mixes that made Jamie xx’s ‘In Colour’: the BBC 6 mixes that helped shape his defining album, brought together for the first time.
The early years: A conversation between Young founders on the raves that nearly broke them in 2005.
Unseen sets from Sampha, Jamie xx, Mount Kimbie and more, from a Boiler Room at SXSW in 2011.
Jamie-James Medina’s documentary on The xx’s NYC Armory shows of 2014
Watch: then.y-o-u-n-g.com
Jessie Ware and Sampha – Live at Boiler Room, 2011
Watch: then.y-o-u-n-g.com
‘Young then’ is now live and available to access
via then.y-o-u-n-g.com
