We caught Soundstream on the 31st floor of Centrepoint, for a marathon secretsundaze knees up. Slip into a comfortable couple of hours with part 1 and part 2...

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To celebrate the launch of the Academy's seasonal residency at Fabric, we sprung Spring like a bear trap, and embraced the LA west coast invasion with open arms. FlyLo and the crew descended on Smithfield Market with only one objective: to tear the roof off the sucker. While there might not be any artics, generators, or flashing lights, you still know exactly when the Brainfeeder circus comes to town. The recordings from the nights are now up and runnung on Red Bull Music Academy Radio – who also sat down with the label honcho to talk about the LA scene and hear some forthcoming Brainfeeder tunes, which you can catch on our special Fireside Chat with the man himself.

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It's been almost a week now that London soundsystem vets Aba Shanti and Blood Shanti of Aba Shanti-I dropped by at the Academy's EQ HQ to rub shoulders on the lecture couch with Emma Warren. Check their inspiring closing lecture below.

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The Red Bull Music Academy has closed its doors in London after taking in 60 participants, holding 27 parties, hosting 36 lectures from some of the most respected music industry figures of the last five decades – and publishing 24 issues of the Daily Note. Over the past few weeks, we’ve run stories covering every musical genre and event that’s inspired us from grime to library recordings, krautrock to Italo disco, psychedelia to Sónar and all points between. In case you missed an edition or two, here are the complete works for download.

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The good folks over at Spine TV recently spent a day with class of Academy ’08, Fatima, Captain Eglo Alexander Nut and East London’s answer to DâM-FunK, the mighty Funkineven. Watch the resulting Eglo documentary here, and look out for Fatima’s solo debut Mindtravellin which is out now.

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