These are just a few of those we've been lucky enough to meet and share musical innervisions with on the Academy couch in hotspots around this blue & green globe. You can check the full list of lecturers, watch their session videos, and learn a thing or 300 here!
The Mizell Brothers (Sky High, Los Angeles) "Larry, Fonce and Rod reveal how they penned early hits for the Jackson 5, produced Donald Byrd's groundbreaking work in the early '70s, and made the transition into the modern space-age working with the likes of Madlib and 4hero."?uestlove (The Roots, Philadelphia) "Each one teach one: The Quincy Jones of our times breaks down the phrenology of hip hop. Listen and learn!"Bob Moog (Moog Music) "Starting in 1954, Bob Moog (R.I.P.) changed the face of popular music by producing the first ever commercially available synthesizers. Here's his story."Sly & Robbie (Taxi, Kingston) "A brief crash course in Jamaican riddiminology with the men who stand behind more than 200,000 tunes, including some of the biggest anthems in reggae and dancehall history."Just Blaze (Fort Knox, New Jersey) "Just took to the mic like a seasoned pro, dealing with the couch kung-fu like a black belt: everything you need to know about Fruity Loops, 'the Sopranos Jersey', and the creation of an empire, is just here."Mario Caldato Jr. (Rio de Janeiro) "The Rio-based record producer takes you on a guided tour to the legendary Atwater Village playground that was the birthplace of the Beasties' über-classic 'Check Your Head'... and way beyond."Derrick May (Transmat, Detroit) "As one third of the infamous Belleville Three, he created a beast named techno that longed for a beauty called soul. Unparalleled and universally valid... It Is What It Is."M.I.A. (XL Recordings, London) "In the pantheon of female singers, Maya Arulpragasam could stand in the line of women navigating their way through exotic technicolour soundscapes, somewhere between Ari Up, Neneh Cherry, and Kelis. Here's her video logbook."Skream (Tempa, London) "Wherever Croydon's enfant terrible goes a pleasant mayhem follows, so we tasked Emma Warren with keeping the peace. In this session: Playstations, rackets, Jamaica, pirates, and other roots of Skream's skaning dubstep riddims."DJ Harvey (Map Of Africa, Venice Beach) "Yes, DJ Harvey is one of those figures in the dance music world whose influence is out of all proportion to his own fame. And yes, we'd love to change that."Bun B (UGK, Port Arthur) "The undisputed elder statesman of country rap reveals how the Underground Kingz hustled their way to the top, and managed to stay there despite more drama Hollyhood could have invented. It’s UGK for life, you already know..."Moritz von Oswald (Rhythm & Sound, London) "One half of dubtechno demigods Rhythm & Sound and Basic Channel opens his heart on live mixing, his early days with Palais Schaumburg, and the Kingston-Detroit-Berlin axis."
Sounds Like
MCs from Krakow and LA rhyming on booming bass noises by East London and Wellington's finest, while an IDM violinist from Hong Kong provides strings; then three legendary producers who gave jazz-fusion a name, peek in to the studio and coax even more melodic freakiness from the vintage synths and the drum kit. One thing's for sure: When the Academy studios are fired up, anything can happen.
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