RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY ANNOUNCES TERM 2 EVENTS CURRICULUM
February 7 – March 12, 2010
Workshop Term 1: February 7 – February 19, 2010
Workshop Term 2: February 28 – March 12, 2010
Straight off the back of a two-week music marathon which brought unique events to London landmarks such as The Roundhouse, ICA, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall, Red Bull Music Academy has announced the second term events for its London residency this month.
On 11th March, Red Bull Music Academy hits the Scala to pay tribute to the vinyl format indelibly pressed into the groove of clubland. 12×12 brings12 seminal London anthems,12 heavyweight producers, all playing for 12 minutes each and celebrating those 12 inches of pure black gold that changed modern music culture forever. From Planet Rock to Voodoo Ray, Blue Monday to Back 2 Life, three decades of club classics will be represented by the acts that created them.
Acts on the night are: Robert Owens, Guy Called Gerald, Shades Of Rhythm, Zinc & Dynamite MC, X-Press 2, Peter Hook, Roni Size, Jazzie B, Arthur Baker, Shy FX and Stamina MC, Martyn Ware and MJ Cole.
All proceeds from the 12×12 event will go to War Child, a small international charity that protects children from the brutal effects of war and its consequences, currently working in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq and Uganda.
Further events in Term 2 include a special secretsundaze edition at the breathtaking Paramount Bar in Soho. Flying Lotus brings his Brainfeeder label to Fabric to kick off the new quarterly Red Bull Music Academy night with an almost unreal cast of next level beat smiths from the Brainfeeder roster and beyond. Already announced but no less weighty, A Taste of Sónar and A Rollerskating Jam Named ‘Red Bull Music Academy’ ft Moodymann and Horse Meat Disco take the music in yet more directions.
The Academy will also head East with Alex Boman and Venice hitting Pick ‘n’ Mix at the Dalston Superstore on the 18th February for a night of cutting-edge electronic music. Both artists are participants at this year’s Red Bull Music Academy, and only recently picked up deals with internationally respected labels Pampa (run by DJ techno superstars Koze) and Gomma, respectively.
Bringing more global flavour to the events will be 28 other participants, giving Londoners a snapshot of some of the creative talent bubbling in thriving music scenes around the globe.
A Taste of the Events
Red Bull Music Academy presents 12×12 (in aid of War Child)
12 seminal London anthems. 12 heavyweight producers. All playing for 12 minutes each and celebrating those 12 inches of pure black gold that changed modern music culture forever. Add some mind-bending visuals by Hexstatic to this mix, and what you get is one journey into sound. From way back right into the future.
Red Bull Music Academy x A Taste of Sónar
Londoners get a glimpse of this blissful Barna bonanza, with a two-day taster event at the Roundhouse – and the Red Bull Music Academy presents some of the most thrilling new artists from the world of clicks, cuts and bass kicks. Expect the likes of UK funky’s first lady Katy B, bRUNA who just released the album of the year in Spain, and class of Academy ’07 Hudson Mohawke (Warp Records).
Resident Advisor & Red Bull Music Academy at T Bar
Drop in for T and some very special space disco biscuits, cooked up by the Red Bull Music Academy and raveland’s official online bible, Resident Advisor. Downstairs will be truly taken care of by Rome’s Marco Passarani and the Red Bull Music Academy Allstars, while the bass-ment will see some of today’s hottest tune slingers, from London’s very own Untold to Berlin expats Scuba and Jamie Vex’d to Academy alumnus Mike Slott.
Secretsundaze – A Red Bull Music Academy Special
For this special edition of Secretsundaze, selected participants of the Red Bull Music Academy 2010 join miksmaster Todd Terje, Sound Stream, and Giles Smith & James Priestley behind the decks at the Paramount, offering a chance for the weekend to finish on a 360° high. The show on 7th March will see the performing participants added to an illustrious list of past guests that includes Âme, Osunlade and Ricardo Villalobos.
FACT at The Lock – The Red Bull Music Academy Chapter
The Red Bull Music Academy links up with FACT mag to bring you the best in UK funky, dubstep, future-garage and other mutant sounds currently burning up dancefloors in London and beyond. Dancefloors to be shaken by a combination of Glasgow’s Rustie, man-of-the-moment Joy Orbison and UK garage pioneer MJ Cole.
Further reading:
www.redbullmusicacademy.com
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Red Bull Music Academy:
Since its inception back in 1998, the Red Bull Music Academy has established itself as one of the most unique projects in music. It’s a world-travelling festival and symposium of music and knowledge, a platform for those who shape our musical future.
Over the last twelve years the Red Bull Music Academy has taken place in Cape Town, New York, Berlin, Dublin, London, Sao Paulo, Rome, Seattle, Melbourne and Toronto. Each year it takes over an entire building in the heart of its host city and transforms it into a bespoke space for musical innovation. Here, over two fortnight-long ‘terms’, aspiring inspiring music makers from all over the world are joined by music legends to learn about everything from music history to technology. Previous lecturers have included legends such as Gilberto Gil, Tony Allen, Derrick May, Bob Moog, Biz Markie, Mulatu Astatke and The Mizell Brothers as well as more recent successes such as Buraka Som Sistema and Skream.
This year the Red Bull Music Academy will touch down in London, the club culture capital of the world.
The 2010 Academy
Sixty participants from various backgrounds, influences and styles (handpicked from thousands of applicants from more than 80 countries), will collaborate in state-of-the-art Academy studios, create and cultivate new sounds with one another. In a rare opportunity to expand their musical horizons, they will perform at an array of events at landmark London venues and spend two weeks with some of the world’s most inspiring musical pioneers. From sitting on a couch chatting to Carl Craig about the re-births of techno to dropping in on M.I.A. discussing how to make it happen, it’s those stolen moments of musical clarity that make the Academy special.
The 2010 Red Bull Music Academy is located a hop, skip and a jump from iconic Tower Bridge, in an area once known for tanneries, warehouses, jails and general disrepute. London design collective My Beautiful City are currently transforming the site of the former Antigallician Pub and surrounding buildings into an environment where dialogues of both the spoken and played kind can thrive.
The Academy’s four floors will house a lecture hall, radio studio, lounge area and eight bedroom-like studios, overlooking the flow of red buses and black taxis on Tooley St. The main recording studio, designed by renowned studio consultants Stephen ‘Fritz’ Pickford from eHz Ltd and Imar Sanmarti of Acousthink, has windows at street level so that passersby can glimpse musical chemistry as it’s put down to tape.
As at previous editions, the Red Bull Music Academy is collaborating with a local curator, Nick Hackworth, who’ll install artworks throughout the building – to refract and reflect different London perspectives. Hackworth runs Paradise Row, a gallery dedicated to showcasing emerging artists, and has long been interested in engaging different voices from the London contemporary art scene. The exhibition at the Academy in London will include a range of sculptures, installations and video work by some of the city’s hottest young artists.
EVENT: Red Bull Music Academy presents Banzai Skydive
SYNOPSIS: As Term 1 of this year’s Red Bull Music Academy comes to an end, disco special ops veteran Morgan Geist and Maurice Fulton bring the CAMP fire. See you on the flipside!
DATE: Friday 19th February
LINE UP: Morgan Geist (Metro Area, Environ, New Jersey)
Maurice Fulton (Bubble Tease, Sheffield)
+ Red Bull Music Academy Allstars
LOCATION: The CAMP,?70-74 City Road, EC1Y 2BJ
TIMES: 10pm-4am
PRICE: Free
TICKETS: n/a
WEBLINK: thecamplondon.com
NEAREST TUBE: Old Street
DRESS CODE: None
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EVENT: A Roller Skating Jam Named ‘Red Bull Music Academy’
SYNOPSIS: Soul Skate meets Horse Meat Disco in this tribute jam to the soul we will never ever lose. We was born to roll!
DATE: Thu, 4h March
LINE UP: Moodymann (Mahogani, Detroit)
Horse Meat Disco (Strut, London)
LOCATION: Renaissance Rooms, off Miles Street, Opposite Arch No: 8, SW8 1RZ
TIMES: 8pm – 2am
PRICE: £10
TICKETS:
WEBLINK: www.redbullmusicacademy.com
www.renaissancerooms.co.uk
NEAREST TUBE: Vauxhall (Victoria)
DRESS CODE: None
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EVENT: Resident Advisor & Red Bull Music Academy at T Bar
SYNOPSIS: Drop in for T and some very special space disco biscuits, cooked up by the Red Bull Music Academy and raveland’s official online bible, Resident Advisor.
DATE: Thu, 4th Mar
LINE UP:
Downstairs:
Untold (Hemlock, London)
Scuba (Sub:stance, Berlin)
Mike Slott (LuckyMe, New York)
Jamie Vex’d (Planet Mu, Berlin)
Upstairs:
Marco Passarani (Final Frontier, Rome)
+ Red Bull Music Academy Allstars
LOCATION: T Bar, 18 – 22 Houndsditch, EC3A 7LP
TIMES: 9pm – 2am
PRICE: FREE
TICKETS:
WEBLINK: www.redbullmusicacademy.com
www.residentadvisor.net
NEAREST TUBE: Aldgate (Circle, Metropolitan)
DRESS CODE: None
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EVENT: Red Bull Music Academy x A Taste Of Sónar
SYNOPSIS: Londoners get a glimpse of this blissful Barna bonanza, with a two-day taster event at the Roundhouse – and the Red Bull Music Academy presents some of the most thrilling new artists from the world of clicks, cuts and bass kicks.
DATE: Fri/Sat, 5th-6th Mar
LINE UP: Hudson Mohawke LIVE (Warp, LuckyMe, Glasgow)
bRUNA LIVE (Softstar, Barcelona)
Juan Son LIVE (Universal, Guadalajara)
Lunice LIVE (LuckyMe, Lasalle)
kidkanevil (First Word, London)
Katy B LIVE (Rinse FM, London)
Ango LIVE (Turbocrunk, Montreal)
Space Dimension Controller (Kinnego, Belfast)
Infestus (Circus Maximus, Lisbon)
AD Bourke LIVE (Citinite, Rome)
Gabriel Nascimbeni LIVE (Nylon Strings, São Paulo)
Cherry Chan (Syndicate, Singapore)
Monosylabikk LIVE (Kitty-Yo, Zielona Gora)
LOCATION: The Roundhouse,Chalk Farm Road,NW1 8EH
TIMES: 9pm – 3am
PRICE: One-Day-Tickets: £28, Weekend Tickets: £50
TICKETS:
WEBLINK: www.redbullmusicacademy.com
www.sonar.es
NEAREST TUBE: Chalk Farm (Northern)
DRESS CODE: None
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EVENT: Secretsundaze – Red Bull Music Academy Special
SYNOPSIS: For this special edition of Secretsundaze, selected participants of the Red Bull Music Academy 2010 join Giles Smith, James Priestley and miksmaster Todd Terje behind the decks at the Paramount, offering a chance for the weekend to finish on a 360° high.
DATE: Sun, 7th Mar
LINE UP: Todd Terje (Full Pupp, Bear Funk, Oslo)
Sound Stream (Sound Stream, Berlin)
Giles Smith & James Priestly (Secretsundaze, London)
Red Bull Music Academy Allstars
LOCATION: Level 32, Centre Point, 103 New Oxford St, WC1A 1DD
TIMES: 2pm – 11pm
PRICE: FREE
TICKETS:
WEBLINK: www.redbullmusicacademy.com
www.secretsundaze.net
NEAREST TUBE: Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern)
DRESS CODE: None
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EVENT: FACT at The Lock – The Red Bull Music Academy Chapter
SYNOPSIS: The Red Bull Music Academy links up with FACT mag to bring you the best in UK funky, dubstep, future-garage and other mutant sounds currently burning up dancefloors in London and beyond.
DATE: Sun, 7th Mar
LINE UP: Rustie (Warp, Glasgow)
Joy Orbison (Hotflush, Aus, London)
MJ Cole (Prolific, London)
+ Red Bull Music Academy Allstars & more acts to be announced very soon
LOCATION: The Lock Tavern, 35 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AJ
TIMES: 4pm – 10.30pm
PRICE: FREE
TICKETS:
WEBLINK: www.redbullmusicacademy.com
www.factmag.com
NEAREST TUBE: Chalk Farm (Northern)
DRESS CODE: None
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EVENT: Red Bull Music Academy pres. Brainfeeder Session
SYNOPSIS: The Red Bull Music Academy launches its new quarterly night at Fabric with Brainfeeder’s brigade of next level beat smiths, headed up by class of Academy ’06 Flying Lotus.
DATE: Wed, 10th Mar
LINE UP: Flying Lotus (Brainfeeder, Warp, Los Angeles)
Kode9 (Hyperdub, London)
The Gaslamp Killer (Brainfeeder, Low End Theory, Los Angeles)
Martyn (3024, Washington DC)
J.Rocc (Stones Throw, Los Angeles)
Dorian Concept (Kindred Spirits, Vienna)
Dimlite (Now-Again, Bern)
Daedelus (Brainfeeder, Ninja Tune, Los Angeles)
Nosaj Thing (Brainfeeder, Alpha Pup, Los Angeles)
TOKiMONSTA (Brainfeeder, Los Angeles)
LOCATION: Fabric, 77a Charterhouse Street, London, EC1M 3HN
TIMES: 10pm – 4am
PRICE: £10
TICKETS:
WEBLINK: www.redbullmusicacademy.com
www.brainfeedersite.com
www.fabriclondon.com
NEAREST TUBE: Farringdon
DRESS CODE: None
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EVENT: CDR – The Red Bull Music Academy Session Vol 2
SYNOPSIS: Tony Nwachukwu and Gavin Alexander introduce a special CDR night featuring Academy participants and a roster of upcoming producers bringing their unreleased tracks to be sampled by the inimitable Plastic People crowd.
DATE: Thu, 11th Mar
LINE UP: Tony Nwachukwu (Burntprogress, London)
Gavin Alexander (Burntprogress, London)
Red Bull Music Academy Allstars
LOCATION: Plastic People, 147 Curtain Road,?EC2A 3QE
TIMES: 9pm – 2am
PRICE: FREE
TICKETS:
WEBLINK: www.redbullmusicacademy.com
www.burntprogress.com
NEAREST TUBE: Old Street (Northern Line)
DRESS CODE: None