The third installment in the Red Bull Studio Sessions series is a milestone and a testament to the power of great, electronic music in South Africa. Over the Series the Studio has given listeners the opportunity to explore tunes from some of South Africa’s top producers including the likes of Spoek Mathmabo, Gazelle and Mix [...]

Reading his biography online, and meeting the man in person it is clear to see the enthusiasm and humility that drives Alex Coetzee AKA Lex Orbit. His open-minded, organic view to a genre, which is so electronically bound, is as refreshing as it is original. He began his early years as a Hip-hop producer, providing [...]

s August 23, 2011 (Cape Town) – As the first stop on the 10-city Red Bull Music Academy World Tour, Cape Town will host the creation of a massive sound system from August 29 to September 1.  Under the guidance of Dillinja and K-aze – the visionaries behind the world-famous Valve Sound System (UK) – [...]

The full line-up of music at this year’s stage at Oppikoppi Unknown Brother, along with the sound and visuals, promises to be a non-stop sonic roller-coaster exploring the full spectrum of what the South African electronic music scene has to offer. Last year’s Red Bull Studio Live Stage at Oppikoppi 2010 set a precedent for [...]

With the advancement of DJing technology over the past decade, these days, at least technically speaking, anyone can step up behind the booth and play music. Which is why it is important for up and coming artists to be able to produce their own music as this is what will set them apart from the [...]

A couple of weeks ago we invited Das Kapital into the Red Bull Studio to flex his musical muscle. His Offering is a Dubstep shuffle of the highest order. A great dose of Bass infused pushes and raw, organic piano lines that tie the over-all sound of “Flight of the Robin” into a perfect, potent [...]

There is not much you need to know about Callan Maart, other than he is the new kid on the block, or more like block-rocking nu-kid. Specializing in grinding basslines, he has managed to perfect the currently mega popular sound of bro-step and drum-step, the gnarly, electrofied mutation of dubstep sweeping the world’s dancefloors. We [...]

The i art sa community mural project, a collaboration between A Word Of Art and Adidas Originals, has, if anything, shifted the focus of Cape Town’s creative scene from the protected frame of the art-fag clique to Woodstock as a whole, a suburb that is incredibly diverse in terms of its social fabric. A mixture [...]

19 year old electronic music producer Das Kapital is the perfect example of the talent being nurtured in the electronic music scene in Cape Town today. He’s been honing his craft for the last 6 years having started in 2005. At the time he fancied himself the future of hip-hop music, and so started making [...]

The Red Bull Music Academy takes place Tokyo from October 23 to November 4, and November 13 to November 25, 2011 and entries close on the 4th April 2011. To get a feel for what to expect at the Red Bull Music Academy, Workshops will be held around South Africa. Intimate, interactive and informative, the [...]

South African producers, instrumentalists, vocalists, and DJs are invited to bring their skills to the Red Bull Music Academy, an annual platform for those who shape our musical future. Having circumnavigated the globe, with previous sessions in Barcelona, Cape Town, Toronto, Sao Paulo, London and Melbourne, the Academy will touch down this year in Tokyo between October [...]

After a rocking first instalment, the Red Bull Studio’s vaults have once again been opened to the public with the release of The Red Bull Studio Sessions 02 presented by Richard the Third. 2010 was the year the Red Bull Studio in Cape Town got its swagger. Helping produce the internationally acclaimed debut by Spoek [...]

Upon seeing the Red Bull Studio Live tent and stage, and stepping into it, I felt like I had been abducted by aliens. Inside the massive jumping-castle-esque peanut shaped double dome, appropriately dubbed the Peanut, one could already see the throbbing 3000 capacity audience losing their minds to the line-up of some of the best [...]

The Red Bull Studio Live stage at Rocking the Daisies 2009 swept the festival onto its feet with a electrocuting line-up of DJs and live acts on the razors edge of modern music perfectly complemented by a soundsystem, lighting and VJ rig that raised the bar for electronic music stages country wide. Following in its [...]