Henrik Schwarz is a long time veteran of the German deep house scene, having cut his teeth as a DJ in the ’90s, but it’s been his forays into production that have really set dancefloors alight; his ...

In a public conversation with Ego Trip founder and Academy team member Chairman Mao at the 2015 Red Bull Music Academy Festival in New York, celebrated Harlem MC A$AP ...

Hailing from Lisbon, Buraka Som Sistema took hip-hop, techno, zouk from the Caribbean and kuduro from Angola to fashion an irresistible dance music sound that quickly wooed anyone who heard it.

A singer, songwriter, producer and actress, Janelle Monáe has been electrifying audiences with her hybrid brand of Afrofuturist funk, soul and R&B since her 2010 debut LP The ArchAndroid. Most ...

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 ...

There are audiophiles, and then there’s Tony Andrews. He has been building PAs since the heyday of Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies. Today his Funktion-One soundsystems are the in-house sound at many of ...

The first thing I chopped was a [jazz fusion group] Return To Forever jam. Was there an old Roland sampler, the MS something? Whatever. It was big, it was grey, it had a red button on it. I chopped up ...

Maurice Fulton’s productions have been key to the growth of house music worldwide, both as a solo artist under and tireless collaborator. In his lecture at the 2006 Red Bull Music Academy, Fulton went ...

Chez Damier has devoted his life to dance music. After starting out in Chicago, he set up fabled Detroit nightclub the Music Institute with Derrick May and Alton Miller, looked after the business ...

A musician since his early teens, Kim Changwan set off a revolution in Korean music in the early ’70s when he formed the band Sanullim with his brothers, Kim Chang-hoon and the late Kim Chang-ik.

Van Dyke Parks is an arranger and composer best known for writing the lyrics to a certain lost classic by the Beach Boys – but that’s not even the half of it. His first arranging job was on The Jungle ...

The couch literally buckled under the weight of Bernard Purdie and the huge number of heavy breaks he’s unleashed upon the world. Whether it’s James Brown or Aretha Franklin, jazz heavyweights like ...