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Jay Electronica swept onto the hip-hop scene in a wave of enigma. The effect of his quirky, emotional sound was compounded by the erratic methods of its release, drifting out unannounced via the ...

Electronic music didn’t start with Eno, but it was certainly never the same after him. On Roxy Music’s first two albums he helped make synthesizers and tape effects part of a rock lineup, pricking the ...

For our London edition in 2002, we welcomed 30 up-and-coming musicians, producers, vocalists and DJs from 28 different countries as participants. They heard lectures by musical greats, collaborated in ...

Geologist, librettist and adventurer in sound and music, Dr Peter Zinovieff was the first person to own a home computer – or rather a computer at home, as his huge device is unrecognizable from the ...

As part of the Red Bull Music Academy World Tour in 2011, five hip-hop legends – each representing one of the five boroughs of New York, the birthplace of hip-hop – took the couch over five days, and ...

The year is 1979, and five young guys are jamming in a Hispanic neighborhood in downtown Manhattan. The vocalist of this group is Salvatore Principato. By day, he works in a toy store with Kim Gordon.

Ross Birchard won the UK DMC Championships at the tender age of 15, and began a now-flourishing career as a producer and DJ under the eventual name of Hudson Mohawke. As a member of the Scottish dance ...

In the early ’70s, Michael Rother quit Kraftwerk, a move that may seem insane if not for his going on to take part in several seminal krautrock bands which influenced the likes of Brian Eno, David ...

I think both Brian and me are glad that I had the dignity to shave my hair off, because otherwise we’d be looking like identical twins now. We could be running a really weird Jacko competition. The ...

As part of the Red Bull Music Academy World Tour in 2011, five hip-hop legends took the couch over five days, discussing five classic albums from five boroughs. At night, the artists re-created their ...

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 ...