Barcelona still boogieing: almost two years after the last basslines and handclaps have stopped reverberating throughout the Fabra I Coats building in St Andreu, Eltron John has finally finished his Academy monster-collabo with fellow alumni Cuthead, Fatima, Dyad, Miaau, NHJ, and Oliver ‘Fast Key’ Johnson aka Dorian Concept, as well as Dennis Coffey on guitar.

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An On Bast from Poznan, Poland, has secured a remix from fellow Academy alumnus Douglas Greed for her new release Upon The Dew Drops on La Folia Recordings. You can listen to the version below and get the full four-tracker exclusively on Beatport.

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Whether DJing around Poland or releasing on labels like Rednetic or etaLABEL, piano-playing Pole and Class of Academy ’06 An On Bast grows her delicate synthetic music in the fertile mulch of quantum physics, Autechre, Mozart, choirs, Bill Laswell, Mouse On Mars and Arvo Pärt. Her new EP Calypso Ice Cream is out these days on La Folia Recordings – check the title track below and also grab the B2 in full 320 kbit glory in this week’s instalment of our Podfood series.

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Mr. Krime, a participant of the Red Bull Music Academy in 2000, has been recorded recently by Red Bull Music Academy Radio for a Polish On The Floor special. Hailing from the city of Krakow, this turntable wizard’s musical journey began at an early age, studying violin and piano for over 12 years as a kid. It was when his older brother MK Fever introduced him to Run-DMC’s Raising Hell though, that things started to get off and rolling. Krime was blown away by what Jam Master Jay did to his MK1200's, and after the two siblings got a set of some cheap belt driven turntables themselves, young Krime took first baby steps and learned it all the hard way.

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The imperceptible hum of electronic equipment, Academy lecturers Tony Nwachukwu and Zed Bias on the couch, former participants Seb Skalski, Natalia Grosiak, DJ Krime, and Good Paul at the controls in one of the many studios set up for he occasion, and loads of local music makers in attendence. This year’s Laboratorium Red Bull Music Academy instalments in the Polish cities Warsaw, Pozna, Sopot, and Kraków had some positively combustible ingredients. It wasn’t only about sharing theoretical knowledge. In the second part of the afternoon, all attendees joined forces and got down to working on a track together. Zed (a man not known for mincing words) was even heard to enthuse: “You’ve got great artistic potential, you have to use this!” To get an idea of what he’s raving about, check out Laboratorium Red Bull Music Academy’s MySpace or listen to “Minute After Minute”, recorded at the Warsaw session. Nice work, Polskie massive.

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