Edwin “Win” Butler III is the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter for Canadian band Arcade Fire. Known for their symphonic pop-dance-rock-noise arrangements, surrealist music arena ...

For the 20th anniversary of Red Bull Music Academy in 2018, we headed back to the city where it all started. Berlin is a city that’s stayed close to our hearts since RBMA’s first edition back in 1998 ...

Songwriter and producer Scott Storch is no stranger to success. After being drafted into hip-hop band the Roots in 1994 upon moving to Philadelphia, the group’s first album Organix leaned heavily on ...

Giorgio Moroder brought a very European aesthetic to black American dance grooves. Although Italian by upbringing, Moroder did most of his work in Munich and the influence of Düsseldorf’s Kraftwerk ...

Todd Edwards is well known for his hypnotic collage of cut-up samples over swing house beats and extremely juicy, disco-flavored bass lines. Credited as one of the godfathers of UK garage, his four-to ...

Randy Muller is the brains behind a stack of 1970s classics. Working with bands such as Brass Construction, BT Express and Skyy, he brought orchestral strings to funk, was at the forefront of synth ...

The couch literally buckled under the weight of Bernard Purdie and the huge number of heavy breaks he’s unleashed upon the world. Whether it’s James Brown or Aretha Franklin, jazz heavyweights like ...

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Few men have shaped the sound of modern music like Herb Powers Jr. Renowned around the world for his deep pumping bass and crisp highs that feel so close you can almost touch them, Herb’s mastering at ...

Mulatu Astatke became an international star in his 60s, thanks to the Ethiopiques series of reissue albums and the subsequent use of his music in the Jim Jarmusch movie Broken Flowers. What brought ...