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Peter Brötzmann is a revered free jazz musician from West Germany whose over 50-year career has taken him from the interdisciplinary radicalism of the late 20th-century Fluxus art movement to ...

Brian Reitzell is a musician, composer, producer and music supervisor best known for his contributions to several films by Sofia Coppola, including The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation ...

Since 1993, San Francisco-based Ubiquity and its sister labels Luv’n Haight and CuBop have been responsible for quality releases through a wide range of genres from old school jazz and funk to modern ...

Since the early 1970s, when he began to make music with his childhood friend and Cabaret Voltaire partner Richard H Kirk, Stephen Mallinder has followed a uniquely crooked path. This route has taken ...

The journey from a Berlin dissident punk band to Golden Globe-nominated film score composer in Hollywood might seem incredible, but it’s exactly the path Reinhold Heil’s career traveled. Having ...

Originally from the town of Offenburg, South-West Germany, Michael Mayer moved to Cologne with his longtime friend Tobias Thomas in the early ’90s. They started DJing in various venues under the ...

Fellow innovator Steinski called this man “the closest thing hip-hop has to a genius.” By the age of ten, Prince Paul’s pals were comparing him to Grandmaster Flash. He had to convince them otherwise, ...

In a public conversation with Ego Trip founder and Academy team member Chairman Mao at the 2015 Red Bull Music Academy Festival in New York, celebrated Harlem MC A$AP ...

Raised to the sounds of the East Coast underground freak-punk scene, Dre Skull perceives urban music culture as a holistic affair and follows the paths of Don Was, Rick Rubin and Heavy D in terms of ...

He’s performed in fog-filled rooms and made aging churches rattle in his adopted hometown of Montréal. Tim Hecker's eight-album career has been about stepping into the dense smoke to find beauty and ...

As part of the Red Bull Music Academy World Tour in 2011, five hip-hop legends took the couch over five days, discussing five classic albums from five boroughs. At night, the artists re-created their ...