Red Bull Music Academy
Red Bull Music Academy Lectures In-depth interviews with some of music’s most creative and inspiring minds, spanning two decades and hundreds of artists
Junior Marvin | Red Bull Music Academy
Academy: Montréal 2016. Originally a rock and blues guitarist, Junior Marvin would end up a member of Bob Marley & the Wailers from 1977 to 1981 after initially getting into reggae through Toots & the Maytals and work for Chris Blackwell. Following Marley’s death, Marvin and his fellow Wailers continued to make music, with Marvin serving as ...
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Alumni - Red Bull Music Academy
Tokyo 2014. Sonnenberg Never Sol Ossie Palms Trax Parachute Pulse Silva NV Olefonken Daniel Limaverde Nightfeelings Plasma Rüby Courtesy rj Larry Gus Ah! Kosmos Albino Sound Aresibo Bienoise Blinky Bill Boody Brigitte Laverne Cat500 Christian Kroupa Douchka Ekali Felix Haioka Ipek Gorgun Kadhja Bonet King Bruce La Mverte Lafawndah Lewis Cancut ...
Bob Moog - Red Bull Music Academy
Bob Moog. Academy: Cape Town 2003. Bob Moog changed the face of popular music by producing the first ever commercially available synthesizers. The first Moog Modular was knocked up for fun as a project for his musician friend Herbert Deutsch. But pretty soon, after the first strains of synthesizer success by Walter/Wendy Carlos, the Moog stole ...
DJ Magic Mike - Red Bull Music Academy
Magic Mike has been the driving force behind Florida’s huge bass music phenomenon since the late ‘80s, but his earnings go beyond exploring the ultimate ‘boom’. The man has also played a crucial role in paving the way for turntablists such as DJ Q-Bert or DJ Craze. Perhaps even more importantly, Magic Mike is credited with casually ...
Vince Degiorgio | Red Bull Music Academy
Vince Degiorgio. Academy: Toronto 2007. Vince Degiorgio may have been around the music industry for as long as most of us can remember, but he still talks tunes with the infectious zeal of a kid in a record store. A disco DJ in Toronto clubs during the heyday of the genre in the ’70s, he spent his days spinning vinyl, working in a record ...
Don Letts - Red Bull Music Academy
Dennis Alcapone – “Shades Of Hudson”. (music: Dennis Alcapone – “Shades Of Hudson”) Emma Warren. Thunder in one hand lightning in the other. Don Letts. And spoiling for a fight, yeah. Emma Warren. I think you should take us to your single deck at the Roxy.
Brian Cross aka B+ | Red Bull Music Academy
Brian Cross aka B+. Academy: Seattle 2005. Brian Cross first encountered hip-hop in the early ’80s, a meeting that sealed a lifelong love affair between the music, the culture and the young Irish photographer. Cross eventually moved to Los Angeles for post-graduate studies, where one of his professors was the influential author of City Of ...
Dave Smith - Red Bull Music Academy
Academy: Tokyo 2014. Dave Smith is a synthesizer designer and tech visionary of the highest order. He created the first polyphonic synth, the Prophet-5, which has become the obsession of everyone from Parliament to Arcade Fire to James Blake. He’s also considered the father of MIDI, and created some of the first software synthesizers.