Hey, Tony Morris here in the Young Hollywood Studios with Robert De Long. Hey, how's it going? He's here with his album, In The Cards.

Push your tiny lies into the truth. Spin a web with your fantasies. Turn your downfall eyes back onto you. You're pushing me out with your jealousy. You're pushing me out. You're pushing me out.

So, Robert here, he he performs by himself on this giant midi controller system. And so we asked Robert to come in studio and kinda teach us a little bit of a tutorial, I guess, on on what all these midi controllers do. So, can we walk over and you you show us a little bit of the midi controllers?

Let's do it.

What what do you call this?

Well, this is a this is a vocal effects mic, uh, and I have it run through my system so I can do things like you're talking into it like, "Hey, hey, hey, hey. Check, one, two. Check, one, two." This thing will pitch the vocals up and down. Um, and then like, you know, I can add effects like reverb. Hey. Um, yeah. And then, uh, beyond that, I have a drum pad which does normal drum pad things. Makes sounds when you hit it. Uh, this guy's cool arcade buttons, check it out.

All right. You can talk to him with this microphone. Microphone. Just say a word. Say a word.

Young Hollywood. You guys are going to hear that in post. You guys are going to hear that. It's going to sound awesome.

How are you constantly like building and adding to this?

I'll be performing and think like, "Oh, there's a cooler way I could do this," and just mess around and look on the Internet until I find something that, you know, makes sense. To me, it's all about finding something cool for the song. You know, if it looks cool and, you know, shows how I'm interacting with the music, you know, I think that to me is is the whole point.

The bottoms are found. You can't get higher than we get. On the long way down. Burning in my eyes. Blinding me from the truth.

Do you think you'll ever have like a a giant collaboration with a mainstream artist with you on one of your tracks and maybe bring them on stage?

I would love to. I mean, you know, uh, on the new album, I have uh, one feature, featuring MNDR. She sings uh, kind of a duo with me. Uh, which was a lot of fun. Um, but uh, yeah. I'd be totally into it, you know. Get some get some rap on the the long tracks. It's hip hop.

Don't wake up for me. I'm leaving with the light. Don't wake up for me. I've got a restless mind trying to pull ahead. I'm always chasing time. Don't wake up for me. I've got a restless mind.

Okay, the album, uh, it's called In The Cards. In The Cards. Uh, tell me what was your inspiration? Why did you come up with the uh, the name In The Cards? How is that portrayed in the rest of of all the tracks?

You know, the first track, the title track, In The Cards, was kinda the first track I'd written for the album. Um, and it kinda became the guiding theme for the album. It was a song where that was sort of inspired by, I guess my fascination with the art on tarot cards. I thought it was like really interesting and it was also interesting how people kinda respond to it and are able to kinda subconsciously create meaning in their own lives, you know, from like a tarot spread or something like that. And so that was just kinda a fun guiding factor for me as I was writing tunes. And I thought about that a lot and it's kinda a cool way to think about stuff, so yeah.

I've seen it on your Instagram. You have different like tarot cards for each song on the album. Right, right, right. Is there a certain thing with each tarot card logo for per song or anything?

Yeah, I mean, you know, we were kinda thinking through it and it's sort of my idea was that it's almost more fun to kinda arbitrarily assign these symbols to songs and, you know, it forces the listener to kinda read it and create their own meaning, you know, behind it. Um, which is which is sort of the idea behind it all.

Waiting on the phone to ring and wake us up again. Lost inside a dream with holes that never seem to end. Falling from the ceiling, I keep crawling on the floor. Can't avoid the feeling, this has happened all before.

Let me uh, play a little game. The first time you ever got accepted into a into a music festival. What was the first one?

It was probably a festival called Jubilee back in 2012 here in uh, Los Angeles. And it was great. It was fun. It was, you know, uh, I played at like, I think, noon for uh, you know, there was quite a few people here though and they were having a good time. I think my my parents actually flew down for it.

Just how many people were in the audience?

You know, actually, it was pretty good. It was, you know, for for noon, about 400 people. It wasn't a giant festival, so, you know.

That's good.

Yeah, it was cool. For noon crowd.

The first video game 'cause he he a lot of these MIDI controllers are used with like video game instruments and video game controllers. The first video game that you ever bought when you were a kid Atari, what was the first one?

Oh, I definitely bought a joystick. It was some sort of like flight simulator joystick. I can't remember the name of it but it was an old serial port one and looked kinda like that but like smaller and crappier.

Man, I asked the question wrong. I meant what was the first console like? Was it Atari? Sega Genesis?

You know, my parents never let me have uh, any uh, consoles or anything. I had a computer, which was why I became a nerd, so I had a Gameboy, that was it. You know, the oldest, the old Gameboy. It's like a brick, you know.

So you were playing your games on the computer.

I was.

You were that?

Yeah, totally. But actually I didn't you know, I didn't play a lot of video games growing up. Because I was restricted in the amount of time I could play video games. I was forced to get creative on the computer and that was kinda what led me to doing this. So that's cool.

The first time you ever drank a beer. How old were you?

Sadly, I think I was 19 for my first time drinking a beer. And it was a Corona of all things, of course, you know.

This is a this is an interesting first one. The first time you ever had to use the restroom while you're performing on stage and you forgot to go to the restroom before you went on stage.

Ooh. Actually, I do remember this. This was a festival somewhere in 2013. Can't remember the festival. Might have been Hudson Project. No, Hudson Project. One of those out in Upstate New York and, you know, the whole time all I can think about is like, I'm gonna pee my pants. I'm gonna pee my pants on stage. And I didn't, but like right after the set, just ran to the porta potty and, you know, let it happen, so.

All right, cool guys. We're here with Robert De Long. Young Hollywood Studios. You guys gotta check out his new album, In The Cards. You're a legend in the EDM world, to me.

Well, thanks, sir. Thank you very much.