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Friday, August 29, 2008 AT 03:22 PM - Category: Video
Written by Red Bull Music Academy
To the Moon via Congo Brains
Fridays Video Distraction #5
Video selectah! Let your mind drift and while away this Friday afternoon with Arthur Russell's This Is How We Walk On The Moon, Konono No.1, and Bad Brains' 'Rally Round Jah Throne'...
Friday, August 29, 2008 AT 02:38 PM - Category: Audio
Written by Red Bull Music Academy
Pretoria-A-Porter
Upfront: Township Funk Remix on Warp
Funk Phenomena: DJ Mujava
It’s been a while since a single house cut has been making waves like Elvis Mujava’s off-kilter monster jam Township Funk. As reported at least twice by every single blogger on this planet, Warp will release the 12” on September 15 featuring the heavy original and a remix by Mujava’s long-time protégé from Pretoria, DJ Nonsense.
Thursday, August 28, 2008 AT 06:47 PM - Category: Radio
Written by Red Bull Music Academy
Que Sa-Ra, Sa-Ra...
Om’Mas Keith on Red Bull Music Academy Radio
Smile Culture: Academy team member Om'Mas Keith
On the surface, Om'Mas Keith might seem like a new kid on the block. After all, SA-RA Creative Partners (his production squad / artist collective), made giant hype waves a couple years ago, when Kanye West signed them to his GOOD Music label.
Thursday, August 28, 2008 AT 04:23 PM - Category: Audio
Written by Red Bull Music Academy
Return Of The Funky Man
Upfront: London Elektricity’s new album
He's Elektrik: Tony Colman, Academy lecturer in 2003
Almost exactly three years after the release of Power Ballads, everyone’s favourite d ‘n ‘b muso Tony Colman is back with the fifth London Elektricity LP, Syncopated City, due out on Hospital in late September.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 AT 02:45 PM - Category: Audio
Written by Red Bull Music Academy
Pusha G
Upfront: GoldieLocks on Locked On
Red Bull Music Academy 2008 participant GoldieLocks
Croydon’s Sarah Louise Akwisombe aka GoldieLocks has been making party anthems with an emphasis on heavy bass, snapping snares and trippy effects for some time now. Taking her cue from UK grime, Baltimore club, and r ‘n’ b from the Post-Timbo age, her new single Kids b/w Drug Dee-la on the recently reanimated Locked On label, might be a far cry from the Motown cover band she was in as a kid at school. But with the Guardian and i-D magazine already singing her praises, it seems like everything this 23 years-old self-proclaimed “audio drug dealer” touches, turns to precious metal…