The Red Bull Music Academy 2010 has finished orbiting around London. But the Academy occupies a zone of its own, where the multicolour wavelengths of reality are permanently suspended. In another dimension, the RBMA is playing on repeat, like some mutated musical version of Dexter's Lab.

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Red Bull Music Academy hooked up with VICE Magazine for a big closing bash at the Hearn Street Car Park, bringing big farewell ballads, spliced disco anthems and more unsound bliss of all sorts, from 2Many DJs, The xx and Friendly Fires.

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The day kicked off with a truly venerable couch session. Dr Peter Zinovieff might not have the house-hold cache of some of this years other lectures like, say, Mark Ronson, or Jazzie B, but his claim to fame easily outweighs them all. As the very first owner of a personal computer anywhere in the world, the good doctor set up his experimental Electronic Music Studios and changed the sound of bands like Pink Floyd, before poaching Radiophonic visionaries Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson for his group Unit Delta Plus. Dr Zinovieff gave us a deep insight into the similarities between geological strata, computer music, and operatic librettos, before reminding everyone that the future is in their hands, so better do something with it! A truly unique mind in a remarkable gentleman.

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As a symbolic celebration of the 12-inch in dance music, 12x12 proved the diversity of the sub-cultures it has driven as well as the immense flexibility of the format. Each of the twelve big guns performing (plus Academy 2010 participant B.Bravo on warm-up duties) stepped up to the remit at this Red Bull Music Academy event at the London Scala, in association with Warchild, to represent one of their defining anthems in 12 minutes – with a different tactic: Peter Hook, Martyn Ware, Arthur Baker, A Guy Called Gerald, Jazzie B, MJ Cole, Robert Owens, Roni Size, Shades of Rhythm, Shy FX, X-Press 2, and Zinc.

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Plastic People called once more, the March session of Tony Nwachukwu's CDR featuring Term 2 RBMA guests Illum Sphere, Swede:Art and Hiroaki Oba. On the closing date for representations in support of Plastics’ license review, a new sign was unveiled, Ali Augur’s design fittingly crowning the entrance.

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