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As an electronic musician in suburbia, I've often found myself stumbling around in the dark when I try to learn how exactly my favorite artists (four tet, mt. kimbie, holly herndon, tokimonsta, questlove, future brown etc.) go about producing, or how they play that material live.

 

RBMA has been invaluable to me in this quest for knowledge, and I'd wager I'm not the only one here who can say that.

 

So, what are your favorite RBMA lectures? I'll start it off with a classic:

 

 

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I found this one to be particularly insightful:

 

 

So grateful that RBMA is making these things happen. They're truly doing a great service to the music world with their corporate money. More corps could learn from their examples and get involved in music, imo.

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Was already thinking to start a similar thread, so much gems in this archive it is just incredible. The ones that really influenced me (and have watched them multiple times each):

 



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp1Ko5EI7Og

 

edit: this was the lecture of Theo Parrish, but it's gone from YT now. Preview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnPdm5XcQzU

And shoutouts too:

 

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/brendan-m-gillen-make-the-transmission

 

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/legowelt-building-bricks

 

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/cosey-fanni-tutti-visceral-sounds

 

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/stephen-o-malley

 

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/madlib-king-of-the-beats

 

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/i-f-body-language

Forgetting a lot here but I've watched countless hours of RBMA, discovered tons of great music through it too. One of the upsides is that they actually get interviewers that are very knowledgable DJ's themselves (Benji B, Gerd Janson).

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As an electronic musician in suburbia, I've often found myself stumbling around in the dark when I try to learn how exactly my favorite artists (four tet, mt. kimbie, holly herndon, tokimonsta, questlove, future brown etc.) go about producing, or how they play that material live.

 

RBMA has been invaluable to me in this quest for knowledge, and I'd wager I'm not the only one here who can say that.

 

So, what are your favorite RBMA lectures? I'll start it off with a classic:

 

 

Disappointing. Maybe they should have gotten Autechre or someone else who actually has an interesting set. I can't believe that he just clicks as fast as he can to make a glitchy sound, when a fully developed Max patch would be so much easier, cooler, and more interesting in every way.

 

I like how Keiji couldn't just start the lecture normally, he had to go straight into the weird shit. Thanks for that. This lecture is much more interesting than the 4tet one (no offense to OP).

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Disappointing. Maybe they should have gotten Autechre or someone else who actually has an interesting set. I can't believe that he just clicks as fast as he can to make a glitchy sound, when a fully developed Max patch would be so much easier, cooler, and more interesting in every way.

 

Been awhile since I watched the video, but I actually thought that was pretty cool.. that he's doing it in such a primitive way. It's what works for him. There's a Funkstörung interview (not RBMA) where they talk about how people think they are using Reaktor or Max/MSP or crazy plugins, when they are really just chopping up the audio into a million pieces and getting it done.

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When you've got a 4am-6am DJ set and you've been at it smoking weed & dancing since the show started at 10pm, there's nothing more energizing & refreshing than asking the barkeep for a crisp, cold Red Bull to keep you going through till sunrise! It really gives you wings!

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haha damn there are a lot of good ones here.

 

i really liked the OPN one, had a lot of insightful bits. he seemed sorta sleepy and stoned hah. i would have liked to hear more about replica, but perhaps he's already talked about it a lot elsewhere.

I don't know where the fuck they got the interviewer for the OPN one. He was weird as fuck. I know that should be expected from anything related to OPN, but still, he was a terrible interviewer.

 

Disappointing. Maybe they should have gotten Autechre or someone else who actually has an interesting set. I can't believe that he just clicks as fast as he can to make a glitchy sound, when a fully developed Max patch would be so much easier, cooler, and more interesting in every way.

Been awhile since I watched the video, but I actually thought that was pretty cool.. that he's doing it in such a primitive way. It's what works for him. There's a Funkstörung interview (not RBMA) where they talk about how people think they are using Reaktor or Max/MSP or crazy plugins, when they are really just chopping up the audio into a million pieces and getting it done.

Wouldn't it be a lot cooler if they were using Max/MSP, though? You can get a lot more things done that way, in way less time, which leaves plenty of possibilities for even more shit to be done.

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I've seen most of these up through 2011. Binge watched them when I worked as a library digitizing clerk. Some duds, some gems, and some surprises... the Sir Mix A Lot lecture is really good.

 

 

 

haha damn there are a lot of good ones here.

 

i really liked the OPN one, had a lot of insightful bits. he seemed sorta sleepy and stoned hah. i would have liked to hear more about replica, but perhaps he's already talked about it a lot elsewhere.

I don't know where the fuck they got the interviewer for the OPN one. He was weird as fuck. I know that should be expected from anything related to OPN, but still, he was a terrible interviewer.

 

I saw him in the audience of Flying Lotus' 2009 official sxsw gig (the only year I volunteered and went to showcases)

 

He looked rather tense and looked around a lot and didn't seem into the music at all. I thought he was a bouncer for a moment. He sneaked out or moved to the back at some point, didn't see him for long.

 

Same dude did another good interview with voigt. They get very very German as it goes along.

 

https://vimeo.com/29219685

 

he also did this one but anyone could of been interviewing, Buchla is fascinating by himself

 


 

the timing of this lecture is pretty band in retrospect, he'd have SO much more to talk about now with Planet Mu's success and all of the juke and footwork releases under the label's belt


another great one...and 10 years ago!

 

https://vimeo.com/29652228

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haha damn there are a lot of good ones here.

 

i really liked the OPN one, had a lot of insightful bits. he seemed sorta sleepy and stoned hah. i would have liked to hear more about replica, but perhaps he's already talked about it a lot elsewhere.

I don't know where the fuck they got the interviewer for the OPN one. He was weird as fuck. I know that should be expected from anything related to OPN, but still, he was a terrible interviewer.

I saw him in the audience of Flying Lotus' 2009 official sxsw gig (the only year I volunteered and went to showcases)

 

He looked rather tense and looked around a lot and didn't seem into the music at all. I thought he was a bouncer for a moment. He sneaked out or moved to the back at some point, didn't see him for long.

 

Same dude did another good interview with voigt. They get very very German as it goes along.

 

https://vimeo.com/29219685

That Voigt interviewer is a completely different person, though. Also, why did he say that they're going to do the interview in German, and then only speak English the entire time?

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haha damn there are a lot of good ones here.

 

i really liked the OPN one, had a lot of insightful bits. he seemed sorta sleepy and stoned hah. i would have liked to hear more about replica, but perhaps he's already talked about it a lot elsewhere.

I don't know where the fuck they got the interviewer for the OPN one. He was weird as fuck. I know that should be expected from anything related to OPN, but still, he was a terrible interviewer.

 

I saw him in the audience of Flying Lotus' 2009 official sxsw gig (the only year I volunteered and went to showcases)

 

He looked rather tense and looked around a lot and didn't seem into the music at all. I thought he was a bouncer for a moment. He sneaked out or moved to the back at some point, didn't see him for long.

 

Same dude did another good interview with voigt. They get very very German as it goes along.

 

https://vimeo.com/29219685

 

That Voigt interviewer is a completely different person, though. Also, why did he say that they're going to do the interview in German, and then only speak English the entire time?

 

Nothing but an awkward joke (true to RBMA interviewer form), how did you not get that from his explanation right after?

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from memory

 

Francois Kevorkian for explaining the influence of deep disco dubs in the evolution of house music, playing the entirety of ONJ's "Magic" and generally be a clued up analog studio bfiincunt

 

Terre Thaemletz (sp? aka Sprinkles if you can handle the hardcore gender politics has LOADS on early 90's US house. I consider that genre & era a specialite de la maison & the cunt threw at least 4 monsters that i'm still hunting for. Wicked jock too.

 

The Maurice Fulton 1 is fun but the Theo Parrish 1 is the most mint just for the contagious nature of that guy's love of good records - soul, modern soul, vocal styles, a mini Jon Hassell sub-section .......the evolution of his sound = pwoper nawtee

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2015 is weird as shit, who could have predicted 20 years ago that Red Bull would be one of the most serious and well loved institutions by watmm readers.

still waiting for someone at an RBMA lecture to mention the fact of how fucking ridiculous it is, odd that no one has yet. Notice how AE/aphex hasn't done one of these yet?

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Yeah, corporations suck, they just wanna take your money, blah blah blah. But what I am looking at in this thread is at a fuckton of really interesting free content that probably wouldn't have happened if it weren't for red bull. Of course, now people are associating an energy drink brand to all this content. But is it really harmful? Have any of you actually drank more red bull cause of these interviews? Has it permeated the culture, have these artists 'sold out'? The good outweights what little bad RBMA causes, imo

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