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Podcast title	Red Bull Music Academy - Lecture Podcasts
Website URL	http://www.redbullmusicacademy...
Description	Where our lecturers move close up to the mic...
Updated	Wed, 13 May 2009 10:51:46 +0200
Category	Music
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1. Lecture Session with Marco Passarani http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 79.56Mb) Description: Marco Passarani concocts analogue masterpieces in the heart of the Trastevere neighbourhood. This hood, home to the HQ of his seminal Nature & Pigna labels and Final Frontier distribution company, is an area where you can have a really good time just hanging around, sitting on the sidewalks, drinking a glass of wine and talking for hours. But he's not a man to rest on his laurels. From running his labels and DJing all around Europe to dropping releases on Peacefrog or bringing legends of Chicago house and Dutch space jazz to play at his regular label nights in Rome, his suitcase is never unpacked and his machines are never unjacked. All you ever wanted to know how to coax wobbling tones from all those classic synths is right here in this session from Barcelona.
2. Lecture Session with Chuck D http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 145.79Mb) Description: As Public Enemy's mighty mouth that roared, Chuck D upped hip hop's aesthetic ante like no emcee before or since. "Food for the brain, beats for the feet," as Chuck himself once rhymed, and the bourgeois and boulevard both rocked with seminar-worthy precision. You'd think P.E.'s legendary recordings, production innovations, and turbulent career twists and turns would be more than enough to fill his resume. But over the past several years Chuck's singular voice as a revered political and social commentator, Air America Radio host, author and publisher, and progressive entrepreneur has kept him as, if not more, active than in P.E.'s golden era heyday. Given the present precarious state of the States (and the rest of the world), we need Mistachuck now more than ever.
3. Lecture Session with I-F http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 48.86Mb) Description: I-f is the producer, DJ and founder of the online radio phenom called CBS, that became a spiritual home for electro, library music, techno, house, boogie and italo fiends everywhere. It was I-f's 'Mixed Up In The Hague' tapes that sparked a worldwide wave of vintage arpeggiated basslines, groovy tail spins and emotional robot tears. His electro anthem 'Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass' spawned many imitators and haunted plenty of compilations. Nowadays planning a new internet radio takeover and running the podcast and mixtape hub www.robotdj.net, the pirate also runs his Viewlexx label and makes jagged electronics with his mate Intergalactic Gary as the Parallax Corporation. In this podcast I-F threads a line through wave, italo, UR, in the way that squatters really appreciate. The disco trip starts here!
4. Lecture Session with Gary Bartz http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 124.04Mb) Description: Gary Bartz is the original Celestial Bluesman, shaping jazz through the '60s and playing with everyone from Miles Davis to Charles Mingus. But his career as a sideman was never going to last long, as he started to translate his unique musical perspectives into full blown statements of astral consciousness that led to timeless collaborations with Andy Bey and the Mizell Brothers as well as the NTU Group, with Gary as a band leader in his own right with. Gary's mix of African rhythms, soulful funk, and spiritual jazz became the perfect soundscape for pioneering of artists such as A Tribe Called Quest and 3rd Bass, while tracks like Music Is My Sanctuary and Carnival d'Esprit have become anthems to legions of dancers, DJs, and producers. In this podcast, Gary tells us how he started ini music, and why jazz is such a dirty word...
5. Lecture Session with Chloe http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 70.02Mb) Description: Dubbed the dysfunctional family's hypodermic daughter (other members include Ivan Smagghe and Jennifer Cardini), Chloe Thevenin is among those DJs and producers who just don't give a damn about genre barriers, media frenzies or peer pressure. Cutting her teeth as a DJ at the infamous Le Pulp in France's capital, Chloe learned at the petite girl's club how to be a discreet, but impeccable selector. She put her record case to the test with the seminal I Hate Dancing mix that firmly installed the dame on the international jet set circus. With a string of 12"s for labels like Karat, Kill The DJ or Bpitch Control, Chloe transferred that aesthetic of microscopic house and technological future pop onto plastic and more recently into an debut album called The Waiting Room. You always wondered what music for stalactite caves could sound like? Chloe knows...
6. Lecture Session with Melvin Van Peebles http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 105.69Mb) Description: No obstacle is too high for the Van who can. When Melvin gets an idea in his head, it's doesn't just become an artistic endeavour - it becomes a statement about social politics and enterprise, crowbarring some slack for the voices of the minority. His most acclaimed film Sweet Sweetback's Badasss Song laid several huge footprints that an eager Hollywood quickly jumped in, while his album Brer Soul from 1969 is a strong contender for original hip hop blueprint. Melvin single-handedly turned the brother man into an American national icon, and inspired artists like Spike Lee, Gil-Scott Heron, and The Last Poets. In this podcast, he explains that the courage of your convictions is enough even when the odds are stacked like skyscrapers against you.
7. Lecture Session with Stuart Hawkes http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 112.69Mb) Description: For over two decades, Stuart Hawkes has been at the forefront of vinyl mastering, coaxing the heaviest sounds out of the waxy format. The list of records that Stu has mastered is like a who's who of pioneering electronic artists throughout the '90s, cropping up on labels like XL, Mute, Reinforced, Too Pure, Rough Trade, Mo'Wax, FFRR, Talkin' Loud, and Metalheadz. Making breaks sound crunchy over massive bass tones is one of Stuart's stock in trades, but he can turn his hand to all types of music. Recently he has made sure such stellar and varied artists as Amy Winehouse, The Prodigy, Snow Patrol, and Super Furry Animals all sound as good on your iPod as they do down carnival or over your transistor radio. In this podcast, Stu lets us in on some of the golden principles of mastering, and how to make your tunes sound as big as they can.
8. Lecture Session with Skepta http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 124.62Mb) Description: Boy Better Know that the man like Joseph Junior Adenuga aka Skepta is big in the grime game. Together with younger brother JME, manager Sam, DJ Maximum and a slew of other MCs 'aving his back, he's also big in the t-shirt game, having sold 30.000 of his Boy Better Know garms. That's not to mention bigness in other areas: Skepta's version of label mate Wiley's 'Wearing My Rolex' was retitled 'The Rolex Sweep,' came with its own dance and swept up a swathe of unlikely fans from Westwood to Chris Martin and '90s kids TV presenter Timmy Mallet. He might be best known for their prowess on mic on grime anthems like 'Duppy' or 'Nokia Charger Wire', but he also deejays and produces, and also appeared on the catwalk for top London fashion Carrie Cassette Playa. In this podcast he tells us how to get your game tight, and how hard work pays off. Doin' it again
9. Lecture Session with Goldie http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 94.91Mb) Description: What is there left to say about Clifford Joseph Price? When all else has been said, done, speculated on and written about, the best we can hope for is two hours with the man himself - in eased-down, laidback mode - etching some personal details into the broad brush strokes of his media persona. Kicking back on the couch, Goldie takes us back to the days when spray cans ruled the world, looks at his upbringing and reveals the latest on his much-talked-about screenplay. But in between we are left in no doubt he exists for one thing: music. Taking us through the early days of Rage, Blackmarket, and Metalheadz, it's easy to see why it was such an inspirational time in the London club scene. He may well have damn near invented some of these styles, but you'll never stop him living and breathing them.
10. Lecture Session with Nicolay http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 51.85Mb) Description: After years of playing bass 'n' drums in various bands, and pulling a Kanye after falling out with his teachers at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Nicolay had already ended his dreams of being a professional musician and gotten himself a 9-to-5. Some day he caught up with then-rising Jansport hero Phonte on the Okayplayer message board, uploaded some of his work as a hobby beat maker - and ended up with a full set of songs recorded over his instrumentals. The rather unconventionally founded group was called Foreign Exchange, released their debut album on BBE in 2004, and gained the praises of ?uestlove and company. Three more full-lengths, a launch of his own label, and one relocation to the shores of North Carolina later, Nicolay definitely stands out as one of the most inspired beat cats on Planet Rock.
11. Lecture Session with El Guincho http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 49.77Mb) Description: Tropical loop bandit El Guincho brings sunshine and carnival vibes to any floor that drops his hypnotic visions of hi-life, cumbia, tropicalia, and dub. Spaced-out parrots certainly get down to this, as the Guinch weaves together Spanish chants, tribal thuds, and sweet harmonies that end up sounding like a club gnawa for our times. He's no stranger to rain forest reveries as part of the group CocoNot, but it's really since his album Alegranza! on Discoteca Oceano last year, that his mix of edits and sample trickery has snowballed into a global phenomenon. His jams might hold clubbers aloft like thermals to seagulls, but it's the deceptively complex rhythm tracks, as simple as playground nursery rhymes, that hold the key to El Guincho's true magic.
12. Lecture Session with Blu & Exile http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 42.88Mb) Description: Blu and Exile is a tag team made in heaven, as their 'Below The Heavens' album ably demonstrates. There's not many duos making fresh hip hop music in the spirit of the golden age. Blu talks to his audience instead of at them, concerned more about the message in the music than breaking even. Bringing West Coast sunshine and honest introspective lyrics, he is the perfect foil to Exile's MPC adventures, crafting gritty soul in the tradition of greats like Primo, Dilla, and Pete Rock. For further listening, check full-lengths by Emanon, Kardinal Offishall, Mobb Deep, and Jurassic 5, as well as Exile's own LP 'Dirty Science', while Blu keeps knocking out collabo after collabo with the likes of Ta'raach (as C.R.A.C. Knuckles) and Mainframe (as Johnson & Jonson).
13. Lecture Session with Fennesz http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 68.54Mb) Description: "Dense, difficult and abstract" isn't the sole definition of electronica according to Pitchfork Media, and Fennesz' music is proof of that. Rather enveloping, dreamy or sparse, Christian Fennesz has been quietly painting fuzzy layers of sound for many years. On respected avant-garde labels like Touch, Fat Cat or Vienna's treasured Mego imprint, this Austrian's sonic experiments have drawn on a legacy that ranges from the lush noise-pop of My Bloody Valentine to Phil Spector's 'wall of sound' techniques for the Beach Boys. Mighty figures such as Ryuichi Sakamoto and Jim O'Rourke agree, they've both collaborated with Fennesz. A notorious out-of-the-box thinker and member of the Viennese underground rock group Maische in the '80s, he has recently worked with vocalist Mike Patton of Faith No More.
14. Lecture Session with Ian Dewhirst http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 41.59Mb) Description: This British gentleman, Northern Soul DJ (started 1971) and Good Samaritan saved plenty kids a lot of money. Back when the worldwide glass fiber web was still a twisted idea doing the rounds in the heads of some geeks, plane tickets had to be bought to buy certain records and discover local music styles. So an act of brotherly love was truly needed and Dewhirst was there to allay the thirst. As an initiator of the Mastercuts "Classic Cuts" compilation series, he flexed his expertise on many a genre. Ranging from reggae and jazz funk to house and disco, Dewhirst compiled and curated not only rare and out-of-the-way songs but also those who really mattered. Further down the re-issue line, he helped founding Simply Vinyl and is the co-owner of Suss'd, revitalizing the Salsoul catalogue. Practice makes perfect!
15. Lecture Session with Randy Muller http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 67.36Mb) Description: It wouldn't be a stretch to call Randy Muller "the plastic surgeon of Funk"; after all, he altered the face of his genre forever. In 1974 the Guyanese, Brooklyn-based keyboardist, drummer, flutist and singer built the Brass Construction, and proceeded to thump out 1000-degree dance floor detonators (including 'Movin', and 'Changin') from the mid '70s to the early '80s. Today, the Brass Con catalogue is regarded as an essential cross-section of the Funk canon. But that's not all. Muller also developed a reputation throughout his band's heyday as a brilliant arranger whose stamp is all over big tunes like 'No Charge' by Shirley Caesar and 'Express' by B.T. Express. He also produced for Earth, Wind & Fire, among others, and has been a prolific remixer from back then until the present day. A studio guru seen as one of the forefathers of Disco (and by proxy, Hip Hop), Muller's been dropping it like it's hot since before Snoop Dogg could talk. You better recognize.
16. Lecture Session with Carl Craig http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 18.44Mb) Description: Since releasing his first single under the moniker Psyche on Transmat back in 1989, Carl Craig is what can be called the spearhead of the second wave of Detroit techno. In the '90s Carl Craig released house, techno and electronic jazz under different monikers including 69, Innerzone Orchestra and Paperclip People. His productions on labels like KMS, Mo'Wax or the mystic Retroactive, still are references for every new kid on the block. Soon after his first steps in the world of techno, he founded his own label Planet E. Today it's one of the most well known and respected labels for electronic music of all genres and C2 hits the shelves almost every other week with one of his tooth pulling remixes for the likes of Theo Parish, Tony Allen, Alter Ego, DFA or Rhythm & Sound or his freshly baked version for Morgan Geist's 'Detroit'. In this podcast, Carl rolls up his sleeves and breaks down the science of this art, C2 style. Listen to the Motor City don!
17. Lecture Session with Carl Craig http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 18.44Mb) Description: Since releasing his first single under the moniker Psyche on Transmat back in 1989, Carl Craig is what can be called the spearhead of the second wave of Detroit techno. In the '90s Carl Craig released house, techno and electronic jazz under different monikers including 69, Innerzone Orchestra and Paperclip People. His productions on labels like KMS, Mo'Wax or the mystic Retroactive, still are references for every new kid on the block. Soon after his first steps in the world of techno, he founded his own label Planet E. Today it's one of the most well known and respected labels for electronic music of all genres and C2 hits the shelves almost every other week with one of his tooth pulling remixes for the likes of Theo Parish, Tony Allen, Alter Ego, DFA or Rhythm & Sound or his freshly baked version for Morgan Geist's 'Detroit'. In this podcast, Carl rolls up his sleeves and breaks down the science of this art, C2 style. Listen to the Motor City don!
18. Lecture Session with Owusu & Hannibal http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 40.47Mb) Description: Everyone likes a nice danish now and then, huh? This duo only started working together in 2005, but pretty quickly they were making heads nod and eyebrows lift with their first releases on west coast label Ubiquity. Taking the template of soul from a diverse selection of styles like Dilla, Moodymann, Jorge Ben, Spacek, Charles Stepney, and Steely Dan to name a few, these two friends create a world of grainy synths, sloping beats and deep dishes. Their 'Living With...' album, earned them plenty respect from all corners of the globe as future soul innovators of the finest calibre, and here they talk us through how they put it together.
19. Lecture Session with A-Trak & DJ Mehdi http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 63.56Mb) Description: The Paris-Montreal connection comes into its own, as the club sonic version of the mano cornuto finds its feet. After the Kanye vs Daft Punk mutant left cities round the world in rubble last year, DJ Mehdi and A-Trak tag teamed to make sure there's no remaining survivors. In this couch double, DJ Mehdi talks Ed Banger dubs and how to pack more kicks in your DJ set than a mule and a boule, while A-Trak takes a break from rocking Kanye's after parties, and talks about his journey from scratch notator to Fools Gold, the label he formed with partner-in-crime Nick Catchdubs.
20. Lecture Session with A-Trak & DJ Mehdi http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 63.56Mb) Description: The Paris-Montreal connection comes into its own, as the club sonic version of the mano cornuto finds its feet. After the Kanye vs Daft Punk mutant left cities round the world in rubble last year, DJ Mehdi and A-Trak tag teamed to make sure there's no remaining survivors. In this couch double, DJ Mehdi talks Ed Banger dubs and how to pack more kicks in your DJ set than a mule and a boule, while A-Trak takes a break from rocking Kanye's after parties, and talks about his journey from scratch notator to Fools Gold, the label he formed with partner-in-crime Nick Catchdubs.
21. Lecture Session with Kardinal Offishall http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 77.26Mb) Description: Kardinal Offishall braved a hostile Canadian music industry while building a career on the strength of his impassioned energy and dancehall-inflected flow. He resounded with the nation for how well he represented it - his Jamaican background, American hip hop influence, and clearly Canadian affability fused to create Canada's first true rap star since Maestro Fresh Wes. But while most other MCs would be more than happy with that, Kardi powered up and took his game international, dropping 12"s and mixtapes worldwide. He's rocked with Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Pharoahe Monch, Pete Rock, Charli 2na and Lil' Wayne among many. Kardi's now signed to Akon's label, Konvict Muzik, and is currently throwing down his fourth album. Still, he never turns his back on the T-Dot, forming his own locally-based Black Jays crew a few years back. Check this podcast for how to beat the industry at its own game.
22. Lecture Session with Superpitcher http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 39.70Mb) Description: He might be a superhero and an oil painting, and even a giant jug of ale, but the one like Superpitcher is certainly an original. Having schauffled the respect of DJs around the world with his remixes and drum styles, the Kompakt student and employee broke wide open with tracks like "Heroin" and "Mushroom", finding fans in all corners of the club. Teaming up with Herr Kompakt himself to form Supermayer, the two now spread their electronic hip-shaking mood music like prozac slipped into the water supply. In this intimate session, we hear all about the roots and futures of the Superpitcher style.
23. Lecture Session with Alex Barck http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 29.22Mb) Description: Spearheading tomorrow's sounds of Soul and Jazz, with lashings of Techno, Brazilian, and Afrobeat influences, Jazzanova have been bringing us the new for over a decade. It was 'Fedime's Flight' that first brought this collective of DJs and producers to the attention of UK tastemakers like Gilles Peterson. Since then, a slew of constantly surprising remixes for the likes of 4 Hero, Azymuth, and Ennio Morricone, placed them firmly on the map, and opened the floodgates for their brand of Jazz-influenced dance music. Meticulous producers with an incredible ear for drum break details, the sextet have neatly split into two teams of three - conquering dancefloors as DJs, while the producers stay home and cook up tasty dubplate treats. And Alex Barck is surely on top of this DJ game.
24. Lecture Session with Makoto http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 30.75Mb) Description: Makoto is renowned round the world for twisting the sonics of '70s funk and soul into turn-of-the-century breakbeat ballistics, and has cemented his rep as the good vibes ambassador for Japanese drum'n'bass. Before starting his own record imprint Human Elements, Makoto originally rolled with Good Looking and Bukem, but is now the master of his own destiny and he's chosen to destroy dancefloors with his brand of jazzed-out soul music. On the couch Makoto chats about his sonic inspirations, dealing with labels and stretching three-minute Motown masterpieces into epic dancefloor journeys.
25. Lecture Session with George Stavropoulos http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 95.09Mb) Description: This guy knows a thing or two about sound wave dynamics. Having been responsible for designing and building some of the finest club soundsystems around the world from Spirit NYC and Club Shelter, to Cocoon and Ministry Singapore. Getting the music to sound the best it can in the space you got is the name of the game, and 'Strop' is a don of psycho-acoustics as well as pro audio components. Probably the most important man not at the nightclub, if George didn't do his thing, the party would be over before it even started. If only more venue owners cared enough to give George and Steve Dash a call before they opened the doors to the dancefloor, clubland and its ears would be in a much better state. Listen to George drop the science in his couch session.
26. Lecture Session with Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 61.59Mb) Description: Georgia's first album "Olesi: Fragments Of An Earth" (Stones Throw, 2006) sounds like a classic soul record melted over a Salvador Dali tree branch. Now combine the artist's beautifully ragged, sometimes Dilla-esque production sense with smart, surreal poetics and what you get is the freshest voice to emerge in the last decade of soul music. Teaming up with cosmic preacher Dudley Perkins, and two create some of the most beautiful soulful music for the year 2300 that you'll ever hear. Check their views on war, metronomes and the universe in this couch session from Toronto.
27. Lecture Session with Architecture In Helsinki http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 49.61Mb) Description: Having first strung chords together as teens in a small Australian country town, Cameron Bird, Jamie Mildren and Sam Perry moved to Melbourne, that Antipodean port for the creatively inclined, and formed the romantic indie-electronic behemoth known as Architecture In Helsinki. Heartfelt dark Folk ditties and shimmery jams emerged from Supermelodyworld, in a massive church hall on Melbourne's Southeast side, until a trip by Cameron to the Pacific Northwest led them to condense influences of Portland Oregon, post-acid Beach Boys, Wu Tang Clan, The Magnetic Fields and Mexican food into sub-2.5 minute pop songs, sharp and catchy, with no time to look at your shoes. Pump organ and busted-up guitar jangle against a new horn section, with Tara Shackell, Isobel Knowles and Gus Franklin adding their chops. Like a mutant gene or a polygamist cult, AIH keep growing in size and influence as they continue to redefine Pop Music.
28. Lecture Session with Tony Allen http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 80.02Mb) Description: Fela once said that without Tony Allen, he'd need 4 drummers at once. Of course, the style we know as afrobeat wouldn't sound anything like it does without Tony Allen. A true intuitive pioneer, Mr Allen managed to mix the brevity and snap of jazz drumming by the likes of Art Blakey, Max Roach, and Guy Warren, with the deep extended forms of african rhythms from highlife, Yoruba, and Ghana. The musical conversation between Clyde Stubblefield, Jabo Starks and Tony Allen is still being felt today, having influenced practically every new genre of dance music from the seventies onwards. Still flipping poly-rhythms today, Tony works with artists like TY and Damon Albarn, as well as inspiring remixes of his music from producers like Carl Craig, Waajeed and the mighty Moritz von Oswald. The original Mr Up Side Down.
29. Lecture Session with Tadd Mullinix aka Dabrye aka James T. Cotton http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 0.02Mb) Description: If regularity was dynamite, this guy wouldn't have enough to blow his hat off. Ann Arbor resident and long time Ghostly/Spectral watchman Tadd Mullinix (Dabrye/SK-1/James T Cotton) has a bucketload of projects and aliases - from dancefloor acid explosions of the jacking kind with Todd Osborn as TNT, to hypnotic beat scapes with the great Jay Dee, MF Doom, and others, as Dabrye. All these aliases might make things complicated for the royalties dept, but it doesn't get in the way of his stripped-back powerhouses of tracks, whatever the groove or tempo. Sometimes simplicity speaks volumes.
30. Lecture Session with Don Buchla http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 96.38Mb) Description: You all know about the Moog. But what about Don Buchla, the Californian synthesizer designer whose Buchla Series 100 was released mere months after Dr. Bob's first synth? His electronic music equipment company, Buchla and Associates, were commissioned by avantgarde composers Morton Subotnik and Ramon Sender to create something they could use in live performance - and since then he's been creating and designing a whole range of unusual electro-acoustic instruments and deeply desirable modular synths. That includes the intruiging Marimba Lumina, the classic 1970 200 Series Electric Music Box or indeed the hot little analogue cutie, 1972's Music Easel. Buchla's sonic toys combine a colourful aesthetic with supernatural sonic abilities. Genius alert!
31. Lecture Session with The Original Jazzy Jay http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 80.94Mb) Description: When it comes to the foundations of hip hop, Jazzy Jay certainly laid a couple of hefty cornerstones. A disciple of Afrika Bambaataa, Jazzy started out as a DJ in the Bronx, bringing the new sound to the New York masses, before he joined the team of Bam and Arthur Baker cold chillin' in the studio. They captured plenty of funky sensations on tape, one track being the pioneering Planet Rock, which proved a favourite for astronauts and robots alike. Since then, Jay helped found Def Jam records in the 80's with Rick Rubin, working alongside Public Enemy, LL Cool J, and the Beastie Boys, before setting up his own studio and helping groups like Brand Nubian, A Tribe Called Quest and Fat Joe to launch their careers. Jazzy Jay is the final word in hip hop DJing, and production.
32. Lecture Session with Ron Trent http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 49.91Mb) Description: Ron Trent is one of the most influential house music producers ever to emerge from the Windy City or beyond, infusing simmering, warm kicks 'n' hats with the legacy of what he calls "conscience jazz-fusion". The stepping stones laid down by pioneers like Gary Bartz, Ahmad Jamal and John Coltrane are joined by the words of leaders like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and brought forward into a futuristic musical form that's filled with the strength of knowing whence it came. His 1990 release Altered States on Warehouse Records influenced not only the development of house but all 4/4-based music that came in its wake. His earlier collaborations with producer Chez Damier were pieces of dancefloor poetry, released on KMS Records, while his own Prescription label, begun in the early '90s, is respected around the world as just what the doctor ordered, for its unique combo of raw and moody deep sounds.
33. Lecture Session with Steve Beckett http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 60.87Mb) Description: Want to know about classic bleep, or how to build one of the most bulletproof 'Indie' labels in today's hostile musical environment? Come listen to Steve. He's the co-founder of Warp Records, the influential label that has been synonymous with left-field electronic music for nearly a decade, before recently reclaiming experimental pop and all types of song formats that teenage girls could break their hearts to. As one who watched his imprint metamorphose from a modest record store in Sheffield, into a powerhouse that exploded at the dawn of Acid House and helped spark the careers of Aphex Twin, Autechre, !!!, Prefuse 73 and Richie Hawtin, Beckett has a bottomless understanding of the business of innovative independent music. He says the common bond between Warp artists is a maverick spirit, and the key to his label's longevity is reinvention. Don't be afraid to twist yourself into a new shape.
34. Lecture Session with Mulatu Astatke http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 79.28Mb) Description: Mulatu's music is more than just the soundtrack to a hazy dream, or a surreal vista. During the mid seventies, amidst a state of massive political upheaval, the Ethiopian music scene exploded in a shower of creativity. After studying music in London, New York and Boston, Mulatu returned to Addis Abeba in the late sixties an experienced band leader having founded the Ethiopian Quintet with some serious Puerta Rican assistance. Fusing his Jazz and Funk schooling with the roots and tunings of his Ethiopian heritage, Mulatu created a sound that was both heavy and weightless, and undeniably Abyssinian. Mulatu stands alongside political icons like Fela Kuti or Gilberto Gil, but despite capturing the atmosphere of Ethiopian revolution in the Seventies, Mulatu's music has a much wider reach than politics. In this podcast expect tomes of knowledge from the husky-voiced one that are as ancient as the rolling steppes and the winding Awasi.
35. Lecture Session with Vince Degiorgio http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 79.35Mb) Description: Toronto powerhouse Vince Degiorgio might have done it all by the time he was 25, but he retains the enthusiasm of teenage discovery. At 13, inspired by his Maltese father's large record collection, he had already learned how to DJ in clubs. At 15 he was a manager at a record store and at 21, with his rep as a Toronto DJ established, he started his own label Power Records. After spinning in clubs for 17 years, Degiorgio went on to co-write with Techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson and eventually become a record exec at BMG. In Canada he broke countless dance records, and when he took an Artist and Repertoire job in the United States, he happened to sign a small group called N'SYNC. After years in the industry where it's easy to become jaded, a conversation with Degiorgio reveals his keen knowledge and deep passion continues unabated. This podcast brings new meaning to the term generation gap, as Vince talks with the experience of a veteran, but the enthusiasm of a kid. Stay young!
36. Lecture Session with Benga http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 60.34Mb) Description: Beni Uthman is a 21-year-old Dubstep producer from Croydon, South London. He's the one to blame for the legion of people humming the narcotically addictive beeping line from his Tempa release 'Night' with fellow steppah Coki. He first went to lynchpin night, FWD>> to hear his debut track 'Skank' being spun by Hatcha at the tender age of 13. Let's just hope he got some earplugs for his 16th birthday, or he'll be deaf by 30. After 'Skank', a slew of influential tracks followed - his spooky early teen collaboration with Skream, titled 'Judgement'; unreleased Reggae-sampling gems like 'World War 7' and 'The Fittest'; and tracks that match his plugged-into-the-mainframe DJ style like the head-blowing, tempo-shattering 'Crunked Up'. On the couch Benga talks about his influences like Wookie and Stevie Wonder, the life-cycle of a dub, and why he gave up school and the glimpse of a professional football career to make music.
37. Lecture Session with Arthur Baker http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 63.42Mb) Description: The night train is coming...better keep on runnin', to catch the Baker man with his dancefloor bread'n'butter. He may have pioneered the first electronic rap record with Bambaataa but his musical career has encompassed virtually every genre with a bit of groove in it, and his influence widened far beyond Planet Rock. Baker began his incredible journey as a DJ playing Philly soul 45s, before steeping himself in the underground disco scene after a move to the Big Apple. He contributed his share of anthems to the legendary New York club Paradise Garage in the late '70s/early '80s, like the rolling blunted funk of Rockers Revenge - Walking On Sunshine. Another of those anthems was a track Arthur did with Salsoul virtuoso Joe Bataan, Rap-O Clap-O, one of the first records to incorporate rap, some time before he laid down the beats for the man with even more 'A's in his name (Bambaataa). And the Philadelphia soul beast reared its beautiful head again when he produced Hall and Oates' most electronic effort. These days you can find him as active as ever, on Darren Emerson's Underwater label.
38. Lecture Session with IG Culture http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 57.58Mb) Description: Known as a meeting point for intersecting genres and beloved as the heart of a musical community, it's no wonder IG's world renowned clubnight goes by the name of Co-Op. From bruk to Hip Hop, to R'n'B and Soul, IG is respected across continents for his self-taught musicality and heavy rhythms. Having started out as a member of Dodge City Productions in the early 90s, he went on to become one of the pioneers who took the scatterlogical energy of steppers rhythms and fused it into the shape-shifting sound known as Broken Beat. In this podcast IG Culture gets lyrical about his inspirations and informations, while painting a vision of London's dancefloor futures.
39. Lecture Session with Martyn Ware http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 84.05Mb) Description: Sound-experimenter Martyn Ware describes himself as "an appalling keyboard player." But armed with the Post-Punk era's DIY ethos, a love for all things key(board)ed up (from Kraftwerk to Bernie Worrell), and time to experiment and rehearse (important words, those two, don't forget 'em) within the plentiful dead industrial space within his hometown Sheffield, great musical accidents would happen. John Peel championed Human League's 'Being Boiled' (the kind of tune that should've if it didn't, in fact, birth Pharrell's whole shit), and the rest, as they say, is history: after splitting from Human League (and being called "the un-aesthetic part of the band" by former partner Philip Oakey), he'd enjoy the last laugh and enormous success with Heaven 17. Tune in to hear how Martyn (and Terence Trent D'Arby) exemplify the adage, fail to prepare or prepare to fail.
40. Lecture Session with Prins Thomas http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 24.19Mb) Description: At the Red Bull Music Academy in Toronto just a couple months back, we had the pleasure of being lectured by Prins Thomas of Oslo, who makes contemporary disco. (As he said himself, "I make contemporary music for discos.") Also an international DJ, he spoke with couch interviewer Gerd Janson about the pressure of being sought-after all over the world, from Hawaii to Toronto. The Norwegian said that travel is actually a relief for him; a father of two boys who works at his studio 9 to 5 (not unlike Dolly Parton), zipping around on jet planes is the only chance he gets to read a book, or close his eyes for a few minutes. Download this podcast to gain insights into why, in the land of fjords, expensive beer and economic miracles, a great deal of wacky, acoustic-plucked, history-steeped danceable music has become utterly priceless.
41. Lecture Session with DJ Premier http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 85.97Mb) Description: Everyone's got a favourite Primo beat. Whether it's the backdrop of Nas' portrayal of New York underworld in N.Y. State of Mind, Gang Starr's tale of greed and ambition 'Just To Get A Rep', or the panicky dream sequence of 'I Can't Wake Up' from KRS-One, some of THE finest MCs to ever grace a mic, have spit deep lyrics over a chopped up break from Primo's crates. Now time has proved that DJ Premier defined an era. You could even say he helped pave the way for the deluxe lifestyle that R 'n'B and hip hop superstars enjoy nowadays. But let's not get that confused with the vacuous content of some of today's popstars. Back then, if you wanted the chance to spit over 32 bars, first you had to have battled to the top of the pile, and then you had to have something to say. Primo's tracks in themselves are masterpieces in honesty, direct statements carrying the messages of MC's like Biggie, Rakim, Mos Def and Bahamadia straight to the heart while still rocking the dance.
42. Lecture Session with Rob Bowman http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 67.75Mb) Description: No one knows more about Toronto's music history than Rob Bowman. As he watched his hometown's scene evolve through genres, from country to folk to blues to rock to soul to electronic, he chronicled it all as a music writer. Today, Bowman is the director of York University's grad school program in Enthomusicology and Musicology and has written extensively about music for newspapers, magazines and liner notes. He also wrote the book Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records, has served as both radio personality and guest on numerous stations throughout the city, and assisted labels in compiling box sets. Most recently, he was appointed a judge for the esteemed Polaris Music Prize (for outstanding Canadian independent music). As Bowman proved at his lecture on Monday afternoon, he has an unquenchable passion for the sounds of his city and beyond.
43. Lecture Session with Strobocop http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 13.21Mb) Description: Choose a number, pitch-adjust your mic: Strobocop is here to get the viscera vibrating with sweet sounds from the schael siick, or "wrong side of the Rhine". Since 1997 his label Karaoke Kalk, named after the proletarian Cologne suburbia Kalk, has been pumping our bleeps and jazzy riffs to cutely destroy the prevalent cliches. Besides Karaoke Kalk artists Takagi Masakatsu, Julee Cruise and Antonelli, label boss Strobocop likes to sit on the fence, creating his own niche next to the competing camps of post-glitch (a la Mouse on Mars and Sonig) and minimal techno (the Kompakt people, you name them), who have traditionally dominated the electronic music scene in Cologne. Pop sensibility finds finds an avantgarde outpost alongside acoustic instruments and all the nostalgia of a drunken singalong.
44. Lecture Session with Carl McIntosh http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 42.34Mb) Description: Performers, producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Carl McIntosh of pioneering UK Soul act Loose Ends is one of the lesser-sung heroes of 80s Soul Funk, and a well-loved influence upon most of today's souliest U.K. artists. A thoroughly class act, Mr. McIntosh was introduced to the Roland 808 drum machine while recording the smash 'Hanging On A String', and his love of melody manifests itself in killer keyboard and guitar chops. His production/remix/songwriting credits include heavyweights from the future and footsteps of Soul on both sides of the Atlantic, from D'Angelo, Caron Wheeler and Pete Rock to Leon Ware. Mr. McIntosh, you sir, are the apple of the RBMA's eye.
45. Lecture Session with Arthur Verocai http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 41.34Mb) Description: On this very special couch session, Jeff Chang sits down with Arthur Verocai, a true pioneer of Brazilian music. Arthur takes us along the streets of Sao Paulo back in the sixties, when Brazil had just won the World Cup, the first cars were being made, and, in spite of an oppressive dictatorship, bossa nova was born. Arthur displays some of his dextrous light-fingered moves on the neck of his guitar, while also telling us how he got hold of the first synthesizer to arrive in Rio, and how to fit vocals, guitar, drums, bass, percussion, synth, and a 20 piece string orchestra onto 4 measley tracks. It's maths and magic all rolled into one.
46. Lecture Session with Stephen Mallinder http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 62.36Mb) Description: From tape loops and smashing up pianos, to meeting New York's nascent club cognoscenti, to Chicago House pioneers like Marshall Jefferson and Lil Louis - it's a uniquely crooked path that Stephen Mallinder has wound since forming Cabaret Voltaire with childhood friend Richard H Kirk in the early 70's. In this podcast Stephen breaks down how he went from a grimey industrial town in the north of England to cruising round Chicago in stretch limos while still producing some of the most uncompromising art dance noise that made it onto wax. A dose of surreal theatre, for real.
47. Lecture Session with Phonte Coleman http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 59.70Mb) Description: He's the man with the big smile - the all singin', all swingin' Phonte of North Carolina's Little Brother. Little Brother came together at North Carolina Central University: three individuals laying down the foundations for what would go on to become one of the most hyped underground acts in the years to follow: their debut on ABB 'The Listening' didn't just get props from the original chef of Hip Hop's main ingredients, Pete Rock. From his alter-ego Percy Miracles' hilarious 'Make Me Hot!' to the seriously heavy rendition of Joe Jackson's 'Steppin' Out', man oh man, one thing's for sure, this boy's been blessed with a gift!
48. Lecture Session with Deadbeat http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 31.62Mb) Description: Everyone who lives in Montreal is supernice, even the local politicians, but Scott Monteith is just that bit supernicer. If you make it out to the annual Mutek festival there you'll see what we mean. Anyway, Scott makes his own type of dub-laden, minimal-leaning electronics on Cynosure, Intr_version, Revolver and Scape but has also been known to dress up like a farm hand and charge around a stage in the mighty two-man electronic barndance ensemble known as Crackhaus with good friend Steve Beaupre. Scott's double life must be something to do with the extreme Montreal weather - they're all huddled together eating fondue one week and dancing naked in hot summer rain the next. Trippy.
49. Lecture Session with Wally Badarou http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 42.99Mb) Description: Lovely Wally grew up with a super-keen interest in aviation, so it's little wonder he took to working in the cockpits of recording studios like a little ducky to water. In 2006 you'll find his name in the production credits of African megastars like Salif Keita, Wasis Diop, Youssou N'Dour and Papa Wemba, on various movie soundtracks, through numerous solo projects or even in the castlists to stage plays and TV dramas. Back in the day though - the day being any from the mid-sixties to early-nineties - he twiddled nobs and played synths for Grace Jones, James Brown, Fela Kuti, Foreigner, Robert Palmer, Level 42 and loads more. Given how much he's done and how rarely he's credited you might expect him to be bitter, but in fact he's sweeter than anything you could conjure in a Paris patiserie.
50. Lecture Session with Recloose http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 20.73Mb) Description: The story of Matt 'Recloose' Chicoine slipping a demo into Carl Craig's sandwich has been firmly etched into Techno folklore stone, but that killer combo of Pastrami, Cheese and Motor inspired Jazz freakiness on rye led to his subsequent signing to Planet-E and the first fruits of an incredible musical output were unleashed. Fast forward an acclaimed debut later, some world touring with Carl's Innerzone Orchestra Band, an a chance meeting with a lovely lass from the South Pacific and Recloose found himself moving shop, trading in the urban decay of Detroit's downtown for the starkly contrasting beach vibes of Titahi Bay. Soaking up the Welli vibes and hooking with some of the local like-minded peeps, some block rocking collaborations were born and thus the world got a taste of Matt on a slight fuush 'n' chups tip - Hiatus On The Horizon. With a nomination for best Dance album at the NZ Music Awards in 2006, numerous nominations for the albums videos, and one of the biggest underground club hits of 2005 in the form of his link-up with Fat Freddy's own Joe Dukie, and the Recloose all-star band keeping floors rocking from London town to Welli-town, it's been a busy ol' time of late for everyone's favourite Ann Arbor ex-pat. Works already underway on the third album, and the first mutterings are sounding pretty damn tight, it must be said, the future's looking tighter than a Matterhorn lock-in. Churrrr!
51. Lecture Session with Rekid aka Radio Slave http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 12.14Mb) Description: A man of many monikers, Matt Edwards uses his Rekid outlet for his deeper, more underground sounds, the kind of tunes that get the likes of DJ Hell, Lindstrom, Tiga and Trevor Jackson all hot under the collar and cold rockin' the floor. Having remixed and worked with a list of stars that could make the most avid autograph hunter turn incredible hulk with envy, Matt aka Radio Slave can pull out styles from Walter Gibbons or Metro Area electronic Disco, to Dilla-esque hip hop, and the abstract house runnings of Theo Parrish. Together with Joel Martin he records balearic soundscapes and film scores for music never made. 23rd Century dance music is here.
52. Lecture Session with the Mizell Brothers http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 54.56Mb) Description: Their crowning achievements: from Donald Byrd 'Dominoes', to Bobbi Humphrey 'Uno Esta', to Johnny Hammond 'Los Conquistadores Chocolates' and Taste Of Honey 'Boogie Oogie Oogie'. First thing to know is that the Mizell bloodline is thick: two prominent early 20th century black leaders, Andy Razaf (the composer of 'Ain't Misbehavin''), the Ronettes, Don Mizell, and the great Jam Master Jay (R.I.P.). Success seems to run in their genes. So here's a story of family values. It begins with a little hit by a little boy and his four big brothers. The boy is named Michael Jackson, the brothers are the Jackson 5, the song they are about to record is one co-written by Fonce Mizell called 'I Want You Back', and, in a last-minute bit of Motown intrigue, it's plucked from the hands of Gladys Knight in their favor. (Larry says Gladys still may not know the song was meant for her.) When Fonce's Motown days ended (after a series of #1 J5 hits he got no writing credit for), brothers Larry and Rod joined him in Los Angeles and the magic continued. Out of ill pangaeic jam sessions at their Hollywood Hills studio came the stuff that gave fusion a name. This time, they kept the publishing. So after a glorious ten-year run at the top ending around 1982, they retired to their Altadena rancho for tennis, champagne, clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
53. Lecture Session with Cut Chemist http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 36.91Mb) Description: Cut Chemist (government name: Lucas McFadin) is the kind of fellow whose name rings some serious bells around our way here at RBMA. Not simply because his resume is a veritable template for all things innovative and beat-wise (longtime sonic sculptor for Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli; co-conspirator with DJ Shadow on the infamous Brainfreeze and Product Placement mixes; remixer and turntablist par excellence), but because he's also an Academy repeat offender. Having already lectured with the Stones Throw crew in Sao Paulo in 2002, and lent his studio expertise as part of the 2004 tech team in Rome, Cut apparently just can't get enough of that RBMA stuff, re-upping for another tour of duty as a solo speaker here in Melbourne. For a bit-sized overview of what this musical mastermind's been into of late, check his lecture which is sure to reflect the range of influences (Ethiopian Jazz-Funk, Brasilian lullabies, and classic Hip Hop) that inform his latest long-player, The Audience's Listening.
54. Lecture Session with Cut Chemist http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 36.91Mb) Description: Cut Chemist (government name: Lucas McFadin) is the kind of fellow whose name rings some serious bells around our way here at RBMA. Not simply because his resume is a veritable template for all things innovative and beat-wise (longtime sonic sculptor for Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli; co-conspirator with DJ Shadow on the infamous Brainfreeze and Product Placement mixes; remixer and turntablist par excellence), but because he's also an Academy repeat offender. Having already lectured with the Stones Throw crew in Sao Paulo in 2002, and lent his studio expertise as part of the 2004 tech team in Rome, Cut apparently just can't get enough of that RBMA stuff, re-upping for another tour of duty as a solo speaker here in Melbourne. For a bit-sized overview of what this musical mastermind's been into of late, check his lecture which is sure to reflect the range of influences (Ethiopian Jazz-Funk, Brasilian lullabies, and classic Hip Hop) that inform his latest long-player, The Audience's Listening.
55. Lecture Session with Greg Wilson http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 59.91Mb) Description: Greg Wilson has a story or two to tell. Born and raised across the river Mersey from Liverpool, he is one of the key figures responsible for the development of the early 80's Electro-Funk scene in clubs across the north of England before its spread throughout the country. Borrowing from formative experiences at an early age in England and Continental Europe, Wilson introduced British club audiences to the revolutionary Dance music sounds coming out of New York City. Both reviled by traditionalists and praised by those hungry for something new, Greg Wilson helped shepherd the evolution of Black Dance music in the UK from the Soul and Funk sounds that dominated the 70's to the emergence of House and Hip Hop in the late 80's. He retired from DJing at an early age in 1984, but has returned to DJ work in recent years and received the hero's welcome befitting his role in the history of Dance music.
56. Lecture Session with Kutcha Edwards http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 19.81Mb) Description: Want to learn more about the musical and cultural legacy of Australia? It's a tale filled with some cold hard truths, but one musician and singer rose above it all: Kutcha Edwards. Due to the burden of the abuse of his people, the southern caretakers of Mutti Mutti, this Aboriginal singer/songwriter went through most of the dangerous habits of Keith, Kurt and Miles combined. Kutcha gave sobering insights into how the Aboriginal clan was affected by the government's adoption policies, leading his own mother to have six children stolen from her. Inspired when he caught bluesman Robert Cray live in concert, Kutcha went on to form Blackfire, a powerful sound from a man who conversely took respite in the delicate refrains of a young lady called Karen Carpenter. Kutcha demoed his omnipull instrument, and without a hint of Omo in sight, we all felt glad to have stepped up on the box to get a better glimpse of this country's soul.
57. Lecture Session with Skream http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 26.93Mb) Description: Midnight Request Line might have become the Planet Rock of dubstep - but that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Skream's musical output. Soundtracking the sounds of suburban Croydon, Skream's trademark minimal sound found a resounding ear with urban youth around the world. Gravity-defying beats and pads, all buoyed by a tidal wave of sub bass, make Skream's music perfect for walking across the moon or accompanying an experiment gone wrong set in a Martian research bunker. Whether he's moulding cosmic Indian flavours, electro dancehall, or skankin' reggae - it all gets squeezed through the Skream filter and ends up sounding like it has been beamed from the dark side of some asteroid. And in Skream, everyone can hear outer space.
58. Lecture Session with Joe Bataan http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 71.47Mb) Description: Reaching his golden fourth decade of working in the music industry, there's not many who can claim to have kick started three different episodes in musical history - from the moment latin went large in New Yorica, to the birth of disco and 12" singles, to the start of a some fad called rap music. Somewhere along the line it was all moulded by Joe, who has been making perfectly formed licorice pies out of the youths and street culture of NYC since the 60's. This podcast we get Joe's words of wisdom about the music industry, publishing, playing live, checking the record label, and being at peace with your place in the world.
59. Lecture Session with Daniel Wang http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 64.36Mb) Description: The Bali-hooligan from Berlin to New York certainly knows how to form an opinion. Danny Wang has been an aficionado of underground clubs since university, and put his toe in the waters of production and running his own label since the early 90's. In the years that followed, Danny has built up a cult following, bringing the old school values of arrangement, harmonic progression, and tension and release back to modern dance floor music. His session at the academy was as idiosyncratic as ever, hurtling down the corridors of curiosity, stopping to take a look behind the doors of musical theory, history, civil rights, and disco forty-fives.
60. Lecture Session with Alex Smoke http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 12.00Mb) Description: Alex Smoke's bubbling techno concoctions are a bit like the headphone version of the glasses in 'They Live' - unpeeling the layers of urban syntax to reveal the messages that lie underneath. There might well be a spiritual connection between Detroit and Glasgow, but anywhere that has factories can get inside Alex's sound. For this podcast, Alex leads us around an industrial Glasgow, deep into basement clubs to stand next to the speakers for Mad Mike's set, and treats us to a couple of his own productions for good measure. There's no smoke without some white heat beats.
61. Lecture Session with Maurice Fulton http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 15.74Mb) Description: A man with more aliases and projects than fingers on hands, Maurice Fulton brings his bubbleteasers from beyond the stars. Not one to sit in a clearly-marked box, Maurice mixes Electro, House, Techno and Funk with a certain mad science, often resulting in a lurching hybrid that can hardly recognise its fore-fathers. In his Academy session, Maurice demonstrates how he programs that certain 4x4 swing and gets those crunchy bass lines, all the while making sure he puts the fun into the funk.
62. Lecture Session with Black Milk http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 19.81Mb) Description: Even if Milk ordered a Latte, it'd turn up black - funky, strong and with a kick like expresso, Black Milk has been making global noise by side-stepping the shoes that no one can ever fill and walking a base line all of his own. Bringing beats to the most recent Slum Village album, Milk has made a name for himself as the kind of man you can rely on if you want soul drenched, raw beats that make even the fattest assets shake with bumpin abandon. On the podcast, we get a proper Motor City eye's view of coming up, chopping breaks, and holding onto the plastic cups. Bounce if you know what's good for you.
63. Lecture Session with John Dent http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 16.25Mb) Description: Back to a schooling in the art of noise from another don (hold the teriyaki): John Dent of Loud Mastering in the UK. This is a man whose mastering credits include seminal albums by everybody from Bob Marley (never let it be said that one man is an Island), to Grace Jones to Motorhead to The Stranglers and a whole lot more. To answer the question 'Why even bother mastering?' John endeavoured to reveal some of the mysteries of the process, and conjured up a fantasia land of sound. When the man steps into his mastering studio, he hears things it's impossible to hear anywhere else: "When I'm in my room I can hear what workstation was used, how long the cables were that were used: things you can't hear in a normal listening environment." His comment on the whole mixing-with-mad-speakers argument was "I'm just not a mixing engineer, I'm a mastering engineer. This constant claim of how records are mixed on NS10s, I can't really relate to it. I do recommend to always have the reference of wide range flat response speakers."
64. Lecture Session with John Dent http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 16.25Mb) Description: Back to a schooling in the art of noise from another don (hold the teriyaki): John Dent of Loud Mastering in the UK. This is a man whose mastering credits include seminal albums by everybody from Bob Marley (never let it be said that one man is an Island), to Grace Jones to Motorhead to The Stranglers and a whole lot more. To answer the question 'Why even bother mastering?' John endeavoured to reveal some of the mysteries of the process, and conjured up a fantasia land of sound. When the man steps into his mastering studio, he hears things it's impossible to hear anywhere else: "When I'm in my room I can hear what workstation was used, how long the cables were that were used: things you can't hear in a normal listening environment." His comment on the whole mixing-with-mad-speakers argument was "I'm just not a mixing engineer, I'm a mastering engineer. This constant claim of how records are mixed on NS10s, I can't really relate to it. I do recommend to always have the reference of wide range flat response speakers."
65. Lecture Session with Kode 9 http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 21.33Mb) Description: You might call him a humble bass-brickie, this guy is an expert at mixing up the minimal cement that glues 'huge brick walls of bass' together and will wrap round your throat like a bolas, or shuffle your shot glass across the bar. Transplanting to London from Glasgow, tune into the podcast to find out how Steve has riden a wave of basslines on his hyperdub label, and how he now tests various sonic warfare theories in clubs around the world.
66. Lecture Session with Qua http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 32.30Mb) Description: Cornel Wilczek aka Qua is deemed by his friends and collaborators Architecture in Helsinki as "one of the greatest hidden treasures on the island of Australia", and has been dropping albums of complex, burbling acoustronica like so many golden eggs. Cornel took us through his methods of field recording and collaging, and how he's inspired by animation. He explained how it's possible to earn a living working alongside production companies who might be making a short film one week and filming an advert the next. Then Qua busts out his Lemur - a control surface tablet by JazzMutant that allows you to build your own interfaces for whatever application you'd like to control, from modular synths and sequencers to virtual instruments and VJ software. It might look like something from Battlestar Galactica or THX-1138, but don't be fooled - the future is definitely in the house.
67. Lecture Session with Krust http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 26.72Mb) Description: Brizzle D&B originator DJ Krust arrived with banging beats that pound the ribcage, and a seismic shift of a lecture at the Academy in Melbourne. Krust told Benji B about growing up in Bristol and how he went from Soul to Hip Hop to Breaks to Jungle, linking with Roni Size and making dubplate warheads. His 'Coded Language' collaboration with Saul Williams blew a few cobwebs away, and Krust was just as happy to talk about Protools and tech specs as he was spirituality and the essence of being human... deep to the core.
68. Lecture Session with Derrick May http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 30.26Mb) Description: To be a living legend is not an easy game to play. Derrick May plays that quite well though for twenty years plus. As one third of the infamous "Belleville Three" (Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson being the other parties) he created a beast named Techno that longed for a beauty called Soul. "Strings of Life" being the quintessential track of that genre, May is responsible for an armada of similar tunes that all mix and mingle industrial melancholy and romatic futurism. Unparalleled and universally valid...it is what it is.
69. Lecture Session with Just Blaze http://www.redbullmusicacademy... download (audio/mpeg, 51.15Mb) Description: Just took to the mic like a seasoned pro, dealing with the couch kung-fu like a black belt. On his lyrical hitlist were rappers who surround themselves with yesmen in the studio (It's like, stop asking for their opinion man), the honeyz and entourage who roll up for a session ("We got every games console imaginable just outside that door. Now beat it.") and record shop dudes that demand a production credit just for selling breaks. Blaze explains why he doesn't need drink or drugs (just drums!) and we get to hear first hand the New Jersey childhood and upbringing of a Hip Hop production supremo. Lissen up!
70. Lecture Session with Mike Paradinas download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Universally respected, ever changing, always intriguing and just a little mysterious - such is the existence of sonic explorer Mike 'Mu-Ziq' Paradinas. Producing tracks since dropping out of his architecture degree in 1992, the south Londoner has worked on Virgin, Clear, Warp and Rephlex, selling crate loads of each in the process. Over the course of nearly twenty albums he has touched down in Pop, Techno, Drill'n Bass, 2Step, Ragga, HipHop and plenty more, somehow managing to sound only like himself. If British Techno were a college course, Mike Paradinas' discography - and the roster of his label, Planet-Mu (Boards of Canada, Venetian Snares, Capitol K, Joseph Nothing etc) - would definitely be recommended reading.