Future Sound is a short documentary that looks into a small cross section of London’s forward-thinking underground dance music scene, exploring some of the things that define and affect it as it moves into a new age of digital innovation.
Featuring interviews with Roska, Scratcha DVA, Blackdown, Mark Fisher, and Lisa Blanning, plus footage from a live SBTRKT DJ set.
Dir: Jamie Whitby & Rachel Lob-levyt // UK // 2010
M A S C H I N E, electronic sound of 2010, proudly presents:
? ACTRESS / Wrek Discs / UK
Actress’s dubstep aesthetics mingle with rave breaks and micro-house attitude to conjure up a gleefully indefinable journey through one of the more tangential side roads veering off from today’s electronic music.
Actress – Purrple Splazsh
? FULGEANCE / Musique Large / FR
Fulgeance’s music is a perfect blend of huge, synth-laced French Electro and modern Instrumental Hip Hop.
Fulgeance – Haggis
? 1000NAMES / Black Acre / BG
The 1000names duo recently dropped Illuminated Man, one of the most breathtaking and accomplished LPs to come out of the abstract hip hop scene in the last few years on the consistently brilliant Black Acre imprint.
Event organised with the help of the French Institut of Bucharest.
* Free entrance for Bulgarian, Serbian, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Moldovan Nationals, bring your ID. Only the first 15 people benefit from this promotion.
Svetlana Industries, our Serbian homies, recently launched a compilation featuring tracks from: Teebs[US], 1000names[BG], 8Bitch[UK] and 9 more others.
“The audio yearbook for this year’s Academy edition is finally here: Various Assets – Not For Sale: Red Bull Music Academy London 2010 boasts 41 exclusive collaborations by participants and lecturers from more than 30 countries. Download the compilation in its full 320 kbit/s glory here and get more info after the jump.
When you approached the Academy space via Barnham Street, it seemed like that patchwork building was hovering on the corner. The large floor-to-ceiling glass panes of two former pubs melded the pavement – the very ground where the late Dr Parnassus hosted his mind-boggling Imaginarium – to a bunch of studios. Or rather, to a universe full of music.
This year’s 60 participants brought diverse musical visions to London: providing panoramic windows into what’s going on in the 32 different countries they hail from. Similarly, the space in which they created was a window onto the host city. A place where walls reflected and bounced ideas rather than divided individuals. A set of rooms solely dedicated to why a musical life is so worth living, especially in a multi-faceted place like this LDN TWN we love.
The recording studio on the ground floor will stay a dedicated musical space for citizens of the Red Bull Music Academy world and beyond. And we hope it’ll provide an excellent sonic jumping-off point, in a city that’s always soaked up laser-sharp musical movements: from yesterday’s air-checked cassette mixes hawked from across the Atlantic, to the Caribbean bass waves that creates a cushion of dynamic pressure under all kinds of drum patterns.
This compilation represents the thirteenth edition of the Red Bull Music Academy, and the tracks you’ll hear are the result of a once-in-a-lifetime set of musical circumstances: collaborations between people who’d never met, but found contrasting keys next to Tower Bridge. Catch them on one of our festival stages around the world this summer – and watch out for the Academy to touch down in Tokyo in 2011.
Juno: Build boss Baobinga teams up with Ginz (from the “Purple City”) and Cosmin TRG on this debut from his new label. Title tune “The Good Stank” is just as brilliant as you’d expect from this team of post-dubsteppers, with big live drums played at a half-speed and a cavalcade of bubbly synths spewing nicely over the mix, all anchored by a soulful synth melody. “I Get Ruff” on the other hand is uptempo and just as kaleidoscopic – with Baltimore-style drums and deep bass firming up the rhythm. Clearly this won’t be the last diamond to come out on Build.
Mayer Hawthorne ends his two-month long US Tour on April 15th in San Francisco. To commemorate the occasion, Stones Throw has teamed up with local powerhouse Huf and designer Freegums on an exclusive Mayer Hawthorne collabo pack featuring a T-Shirt + Heart-Shaped USB with Mayer Hawthornes rendition of Tony Bennets classic I Left My Heart In San Francisco pre-loaded onto each USB.
As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation.
Bruce Haack Intro
Bob James – ‘Love Power’
Azymuth – ‘Last Summer In Rio’
The Alan Parson Project – ‘Nucleus’
Can – ‘Paperhouse’
Gong – ‘Dynamite: I Am Your Animal’
Aaron Harry – ‘On Golden Sands’
Interlude
Phil Upchurch – ‘Adam And Charlene’
Hummingbird – ‘Anna’s Song’
Les Crane – ‘Esperanza’
Rick Wakeman – ‘Dante Period’
ELO – ‘Yours Truely, 2095′
Paul White – ‘The Doldrum’
Interlude
U-Roy – ‘Natty Rebel’
U-Roy – ‘So Jah Jah Say’
Ken Boothe – ‘Aint No Sunshine’
Weather Report – ‘Lusitanos’
Weather Report – ‘Badia’
Paul White – ‘Future Adventures’
Paul White – ‘Dance Scene’
Paul White – ‘Space Princess’
Paul White – ‘Roots’
Paul White – ‘Moonlight’
Neil Outro
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