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The Red Bull Music Academy Extravaganza is a music event all about THE MUSIC. Spread over four rooms at The Espy it will be an auxiliary experience not to be missed, featuring a stack of the true pioneers and innovators of our time. Make sure you get down early to catch the lectures from Greg Wilson and more from 5pm onwards!
Featuring:
Joe Bataan
Ed Motta
Steve Spacek + Benji B Soundsytem
Aloe Blacc
Patrick Pulissinger
Chez Damier
Alex Smoke
+ more
Plus lectures by Greg Wilson and more from 5pm for ticket holders
At The Espy - 11 The Esplanade, St Kilda, 3181
Saturday 21st October
Available from: Central Station / Collectors Corner / Dmc / Espy Bottleshop / Greville Records / Northside / Polyester
Alex Smoke (Soma, Glasgow)
Alex Smoke’s got it runnin’. The Glasgow producer and DJ is one of those dudes you always thought
would do something good, then suddenly he seemed to write two classic techno albums overnight.
Seriously, the Detroit-based, European-looking 4/4 stuff he makes is more assured and impressive
than anything you’ve ever heard. With the backing of Soma Records, as tight a ship as ever sailed out
of Glasgow’s yards, he rarely gets to see his home town anymore, which is tough ‘cos it’s a friendly
place and lots of people there like him. Hey ho, that’s life when you’re a hot new talent.
Joe Bataan (Suss’d, USA)
Not many can claim to have had a hand in developing rap via New Yorican disco and Latin soul. But then Joe Bataan has been ahead of the curve for 30 years, fusing musical styles way before they became the norm, and always keeping his ears to the street culture he grew up with. His breakthrough track ‘Gypsy Woman’ helped propel the emerging dance movement and his ‘Salsoul’ album remains a pivotal LP, mixing funk and Latin with orchestral maneuvers and predicting the future like a William Burroughs of disco. As if one landmark album wasn’t enough, ‘Afrofilipino’ spawned another seminal early disco anthem - a version of Gil Scott Heron’s ‘The Bottle’. The Latin funk brother who’s certainly no ordinary Joe.
Patrick Pulsinger (Cheap, Austria)
Viennese-bred producer Patrick Pulsinger has managed to leave his signature warped electronics on just about every style and tempo of dance music. Whether blending jazz with subliminal frequencies, hooking up vintage synths to the sneaky algorhythms of the SuperCollider program, or fusing polychromatic disco with vigorous electronic workouts, Patrick Pulsinger knows how to morph elements of error and freestyle into the sublime. That ethos permeates Vienna’s Cheap label catalogue, which Patrick started with Erdem Tunakan in ‘93. The chemistry is palpable. Likewise as a DJ and radio presenter, Patrick creates aural atomic fusion from all sorts of classics and curiosities, with a fun-loving, anarchistic aftertaste: a connoisseur¹s selection of sonic pastries, tarts and telegrams of the soul, concocted in Vienna, focusing on the flavour. Simply the best sonic mélange.
Steve Spacek & Benji B Soundsystem
Benji B (BBC 1Xtra, London)
Big respect to the man like Benji B. Radio has been this bwoy’s life since his early teens, cutting his teeth in the role of Ralph Macchio to Gilles’ Mr Miyagi. Now he steers his weekly 1Xtra radio show ‘Deviation’ through the uncharted waters of the most twisted club sonics. Considered by many as the DJs DJ, Benji reps for the global underground club scene, searching out the beats that eventually become those well-thumbed future classics in everyone¹s box. And when it comes to DJ sets, Benji definitely comes with the travellin-without-moving vibe, mixing a troo-school selection across all styles, tempos and countries. Pack yo passport.
Steve Spacek (Blackpocket, USA)
Why no one asked Steve to score the love scenes in Moonraker is anyone’s guess, but after Steve had teamed up with Morgan and Ed and they dropped their single 'Eve', they were acknowledged by critics and music lovers alike as fine purveyors of outer-galactic Soul. Following that up with their LP 'Curvatia' further cemented them as leaders in the field of zero-gravity seduction soundtracks, and no self-respecting martian Casanova was seen without a copy. Steve recently dropped a solo album ‘Space Shift’ on west coast label Sound In Color, which found him collaborating with some of Detroit¹s finest ¬ with J Dilla on the ode to community that is ‘Dollar’ and Leon Ware on ‘Smoke’ - as well as West London producer Afronaught. It might read like a sound clash, but Steve pulls it all together with his incorporeal vocals and weightless, time-slowing atmospheres.
Bio info soon on Ed Motta, Aloe Blacc, Chez Damier, Alex Smoke and Greg Wilson! ;)
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Coste
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