Red Bull Music Academy
Red Bull Music Academy Lectures In-depth interviews with some of music’s most creative and inspiring minds, spanning two decades and hundreds of artists
Lectures - Red Bull Music Academy
Explore the Red Bull Music Academy archive, tracing the global music institution’s more than 20-year history
Red Bull Music Academy
Explore the Red Bull Music Academy archive, tracing the global music institution’s more than 20-year history
About - Red Bull Music Academy
The Red Bull Music Academy was founded in 1998 as a workshop and lecture series for aspiring music-makers. Every year, artists from around the world came together in a different host city to learn from musical luminaries – and each other – and collaborate in custom-built studios.
Alumni - Red Bull Music Academy
Explore the Red Bull Music Academy archive, tracing the global music institution’s more than 20-year history
Madlib (2016) | Red Bull Music Academy
Since the early ’90s, the reclusive Madlib has been producing music at a relentless pace. Whether he’s working with artists like Freddie Gibbs, MF Doom or Erykah Badu, collaborating with the late J Dilla, or working under one of his own aliases, like the drugged-out party creature Quasimoto, Madlib has carved out his own idiosyncratic corner in the massive hip-hop universe.
Makoto - Red Bull Music Academy
Tokyo-born Makoto made a name for himself in the drum & bass scene thanks to killer keys and melodies, exemplified across various solo and collaborative projects for labels such as LTJ Bukem’s Good Lookin’ Records.
Marley Marl - Red Bull Music Academy
Hailing from Queens, Marley Marl revolutionized hip-hop when he pioneered the practice of sampling drum sounds and creating his own proto-boom-bap rhythms, yielding gems like MC Shan’s joyfully noisy (and unintentionally beef-inducing) QB anthem “The Bridge.” The sonic architect of Cold ...
New York 2013 - Red Bull Music Academy
More than 230 artists performed during the five-week Red Bull Music Academy, including musical luminaries such as Brian Eno, Metro Area, Boi-1da, The Congos, Oneohtrix Point Never, Flying Lotus, Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory, Skream, Kim Gordon, Masters At Work and Four Tet – as well as the 62 hand-picked Academy participants. Disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder played his first ever live ...
Janelle Monáe | Red Bull Music Academy
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 recently, the Kansas City native and Wondaland label head has starred in two award-winning films, Moonlight and Hidden Figures, and released 2018’s critically-acclaimed audiovisual piece Dirty Computer.