Red Bull Music Academy was founded to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and inspiration between influential music-makers and up-and-coming artists representing different backgrounds, genres and ...

Ian Dewhirst is best known as a compiler but he got his start in music DJing in the Northern Soul scene, where obscurity is everything. He stumbled into Northern Soul thanks to a job at a local market ...

Starting her career in the late 1960s, Cosey Fanni Tutti went on to become a seismic force in experimental music. Whether delivering confrontational performance art as part of COUM Transmissions, ...

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With the kind of reputation that strikes fear in the heart of anyone entering a “name the rare breaks” battle, Gerald “Jazzman” Short has been running his online store and reissue label, Jazzman ...

Since its inception in 1989, Warp Records has become one of England’s most influential and respected modern record labels. Founded in Sheffield by Steve Beckett and the late Rob Mitchell, Warp tapped ...

On this very special couch session at the 2006 Red Bull Music Academy, we sit down with Arthur Verocai, a true pioneer of Brazilian music. Arthur takes us along the streets of Rio back in the ’60s, ...

For the Cape Town edition of RBMA, two buildings that used to belong to the Chinese Seaman’s Association were remodeled by Marcus Neustetter and the Trinity Session to form a capacious HQ. Throughout ...

A true synthesizer pioneer, Suzanne Ciani’s love of electronic music began in 1968 during a field trip to MIT. However, it was her decade-long adventure mastering the Buchla 200 that would define her ...

The Red Bull Music Academy Festival Paris returned to the French capital for the third straight year, following 2016’s inaugural edition of the festival and RBMA Paris 2015 before that. From September ...

Returning to New York City for a third consecutive year, we presented a month-long festival that explored and celebrated the city’s rich cultural heritage while simultaneously spotlighting the modern ...

As part of the Red Bull Music Academy World Tour 2011, five hip-hop legends – each representing one of the five boroughs of New York, the birthplace of hip-hop – took the couch over five days, with ...