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Red Bull Music Academy and MUTEK Create a Unique Partnership with a Three-Day Festival Stage Set to Rock Montreal
Red Bull Music Academy is proud to have entered into a new partnership with MUTEK: International Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music, a relationship that begun with this cross-Canadian tour and culminates into a the Red Bull Music Academy curated series of three showcases over three nights and one afternoon at the MUTEK festival in Montreal May 30 – June 3, 2012. (Continue)
Red Bull Music Academy to set up shop in New York in 2012
Red Bull Music Academy 2012 Heads To New York City Workshop 1: September 30 – October 12, 2012 Workshop 2: October 21 - November 2, 2012 Apply: February 2 - April 2, 2012 The Red Bull Music Academy has travelled around the world, with previous stops including Berlin, Toronto, London, Madrid, Melbourne, and Cape Town. The Academy’s 2012 edition will be held in New York Cit (Continue)
New Videos From Red Bull Music Academy: Erykah Badu, DOOM, Tom Zé, Såo Paulo Tour Stop
Check out recent videos from the Red Bull Music Academy World Tour - São Paulo stop and Erykah Badu, DOOM and Tom Zé Academy lectures from Madrid below. RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY MADRID - RECENT LECTURES ERYKAH BADU - http://vimeo.com/31332209 Erykah Badu needs little introduction. Her seminal works like 'Baduizm' and the 'New AmErykah' series have successively upped the ante in ter (Continue)
Red Bull Music Academy presents Jay Electronica | Listen & Love
Jay Electronica Roc Nation, NYC Jay Electronica swept onto the hip hop scene in a wave of enigma late last decade. The effect of his quirky, emotional sound was compounded by the erratic methods of their release, drifting out unannounced via the internet - the Myspace leak of Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), a fifteen minute opus laced with movie samples and beatless film soundtracks, (Continue)
EVENT REVIEW: Red Bull Presents Mobb Deep & Lloyd Banks | 9/26, NYC
Red Bull Music Academy loves hip hop, and they want the world to know it. Their Five on Five series is a testament to the birthplace of hip hop. Five on Five showcases iconic artists from each of the five boroughs, (like Wu Tang, Slick Rick & Black Moon) to possibly remind people what hip hop used to be like. Starting off the series ironically with a Queens act performing in Manhattan seem (Continue)
Red Bull Music Academy presents 9th Wonder | Listen & Love
9th Wonder and True School Corp Asylum, North Carolina Born, raised and still residing in North Carolina, 9th Wonder is the 'production' third of the state's biggest hip hop export, Little Brother. Heavily informed by the golden era producers, the soulful warmth of his production technique has seen him work with underground stars like Murs and Jean Grae as well as producing for US pop roya (Continue)
Red Bull Music Academy presents Angie Stone | Listen & Love
Stax Records, USA A native of Columbia, SC, Angie Stone began singing gospel music at a young age at First Nazareth Baptist Church. Her father, a member of a local gospel quartet, would take his only child to see performances by gospel artists such as the Singing Angels and the Gospel Keynotes. While working dead-end jobs as a young woman, Stone began saving money to record her own demos at (Continue)
Red Bull Music Academy Presents Pete Rock | Listen & Love
Soul Brother Prod., NYC Born in the Bronx and growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, Pete Rock first stepped onto the scene as a DJ on Marley Marl’s legendary radio show in the late 80s. Soon after, Eddie F, then DJ for Pete Rock’s cousin Heavy D, gave Pete his first drum machine and taught him some basic skills. Soon after, Pete had created his own innovative beatmaking technique and in (Continue)
Red Bull Music Academy presents Osunlade | Listen & Love
Yoruba Gold Sessions - Prince Tribute Osunlade Yoruba, Santorini If you've ever been into house music, you will at some point have stumbled across the pounding polyrhythms of Osunlade's Afro-Cuban riddims in the deep house rack at your local record store. With family roots in St. Louis and Chicago, he was surrounded by jazz, blues and soul culture from an early age, but it was when he mov (Continue)
Redbull Music Academy Presents DâM-FunK | Listen & Love
Train Wreck Mix - London Session DâM-FunK Stones Throw, Los Angeles Known as Los Angeles' "Ambassador of Boogie Funk" this man represents the citizens of the Funkmosphere to the fullest. Headquartered in the Culver City section of L.A., Dam (pronounced: 'Dame' as in Damon) spent the last few years cultivating a musical renaissance rooted in the early-'80s styles known as boogie, modern s (Continue)
