Red Bull Music Academy
In-depth interviews with some of music’s most creative and inspiring minds, spanning two decades and hundreds of artists. Learn more. Welcome to the Red Bull Music Academy archive, tracing the global music institution’s more than 20-year history.
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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 ...
Scott Storch - Red Bull Music Academy
Songwriter and producer Scott Storch is no stranger to success. After being drafted into hip-hop band the Roots in 1994 upon moving to Philadelphia, the group’s first album Organix leaned heavily on Storch’s distinctive use of the Fender Rhodes and would help define their sound. Storch’s playing eventually lead him to Dr. Dre, for whom …
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 ...
Steve Reich - Red Bull Music Academy
Academy: London 2010. The New York Times called Steve Reich “our greatest living composer.”. Experienced in the field of Western classical, Reich managed to transcend regional and cultural boundaries, incorporating influences from around the world as well as from past, present and future. Born in 1936 and influenced by John Cage, he walked ...
Yuzo Koshiro - Red Bull Music Academy
Yuzo Koshiro is a Japanese composer, arranger and programmer whose contributions helped change video game music. Having discovered video games and their music at an early age, Koshiro learned to program using an NEC PC-8801 before landing his first jobs in the industry in early 1980s Tokyo, scoring the background music for games like Bosconian, Tower of Druaga and Sega’s 1987 hit Shinobi.
A Guy Called Gerald - Red Bull Music Academy
A Guy Called Gerald. Academy: London 2010. Gerald Simpson has played several key roles in shaping the British electronic music scene. Starting out as a regular clubgoer in his hometown of Manchester, he went on to become part of 808 State, cut the classic solo acid track “Voodoo Ray” and helmed the respected drum & bass label Juice Box Records.
Kevin Saunderson - Red Bull Music Academy
Of late, Saunderson has passed on his love of electronic music to his children Dantiez and DaMarii, both of whom have become producers and DJs. In his lecture at the Red Bull Music Academy 2018 Berlin, Saunderson explored the history of Detroit techno, from his early musical experiments alongside Atkins and May to mainstream success with Inner ...
Erykah Badu - Red Bull Music Academy
Erykah Badu is a legend and perhaps the most capricious artist in modern soul. Hailed the queen of neo-soul on her arrival in 1997, with the multiplatinum Baduizm, she shrugged off the apparent demise of the genre, instead going deeper and weirder with the incredible New Amerykah Part I album in 2007, for which she enlisted such Academy stalwarts as Madlib, Sa-Ra and 9th Wonder.