Los Angeles - The Red Bull Music Academy is proud to announce the 61 participants of the 2015 Academy edition at la Gaîté lyrique in Paris. Selected by a jury out of 4,509 applications, this year’s class is composed of producers, DJs, instrumentalists, vocalists and composers from 37 different countries. (Represented for the first time in the Academy’s 17-year history are artists from the Philippines, the Ukraine, and Iceland.) Their musical styles stretch from modern classical to juke, bedroom pop, R&B,shoegaze, techno, instrumental hip hop, power electronics, ambient, jazz, IDM, drone, future bass, disco, drum & bass and beyond.
From October 25 to November 27, the participants will take part in studio sessions, workshops and lectures with legendary artists at the Academy during their respective 2-week terms. At night, each participant will join the lineup at one of the many events that will take place at la Gaîté lyrique and throughout the city as part of the Red Bull Music Academy. Stay tuned for more information about those events in the upcoming weeks.
The Academy experience in 2015 will unfold in various ways throughout la Gaîté lyrique. In an exhibition titled Paris MusiqueClub, we will collaborate with visionary French collectives from the music world and beyond to bring their stories and aesthetic visions to life. RBMA Radio, meanwhile, will find a place at Plateau Media, creating a public-facing studio for the many hours of live programming that will be done throughout the Academy.
The U.S. participants selected for the Paris installment of the Red Bull Music Academy 2015 are:
- Astrolith: Evan Sutton explores the space between hip hop, techno, and pop. His fiery productions rely on rugged beats as a backbone, weaving in swathes of European-style synth lines.
- Lil Jabba: Brooklyn-based producer inspired DJ Rashad whose music contributed to a radical new kind of club music that speaks to what it’s like to grow up on the internet. Lil Jabba has released on underground labels Local Action, True Panther and Watercolor.
- Mulherin: Alongside his twin brother, Marshall Mulherin makes up one half of Mulherin: a downbeat pop and R&B-infused duo from Tennessee. Marshall’s strength lies in making electronic and acoustic instruments sing in the same, longing voice.
- Suicideyear: Louisiana’s James Prudhomme sits singularly – and comfortably – on the outer fringes of southern US rap production, bringing an experimental, ambient-inspired edge into the equation. He released his debut Rememberance on Oneohtrix Point Never’s Software label.
- Taskforce: There’s a cacophony of sounds, memories and ideas inside the mind of the producer who calls his sound “Timbaland on 1200mg of DXM making techno.” he’s produced beats for experimental NYC rapper Le1f and Fade To Mind’s Nguzunguzu have remixed him.
- Tide Jewel: A producer, self-taught pianist, and visual arts teacher who folds influences as far-reaching as French literature and experimental jazz into his radical noise soundscapes, Tide Jewel’s own voice is one that speaks to the power of the individual in a world of noise.
- Wheez-ie: Producer/DJ whose brand of juke is thundering and propulsive, built to fry subwoofers and burn holes in the shoes of any dancers bold enough to keep pace. He also runs his own label, Southern Belle Recordings, and has releases on Fool’s Gold, Trouble & Bass, and more.
- Your Friend: Taryn Miller plays guitar, percussion and bass to make soaring ambient pop, with hints of country and electronic blues. She has a multimedia approach to music production that is thoroughly modern, and caught the ear of seminal British indie label Domino.
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Photo Of Mulherin by Patrick Walsh
