Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Just Begun

Mr. Spacek…in the place to be!

We’re now in the middle of Day 2 of the second term of the Red Bull Music Academy. You can click here for your boy’s take on Day 1.

I’m at the Red Bull Music Academy with our crew of 50+. About two dozen participants are here to make music and learn from masters like Steve Spacek, Marco Passarani, Patrick Pulsinger, and my roomie DJ Zinc, as well as enjoy conversations between us team members and our legendary special guests.

Skream and Just Blaze will be here, for instance, and I’ve been given the enviable assignments of interviewing Joe Bataan, Arthur Verocai, Black Milk, and (alongside man like Benji B) the Mizell Brothers. All that plus great food!

I’ll also be part of the radio crew, so just click on the Radio Player popup here. You will be able to hear mixes from the likes of Derrick May and my non-alter ego, the Chairman himself, Jeff Mao, who escaped the egotrip pressure cooker in LA for a couple weeks.

Holla back here and there for updates, and def go crazy running around on the RBMA site. The day after each of the interviews, the great folks at RBMA will be uploading edited podcasts of the interviews, so it’s worth your daily visit.

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