Red Bull Music Academy Radio

The XX

(Young Turks, XL Recordings, UK)

Headphone Highlights

Making themselves comfortable right between Young Marble Giants, early The Cure, and modern R&B. One of the hottest young British bands in ages.

Go To Show - More Pop

Flying Lotus

(Brainfeeder, Warp, Los Angeles)

Fireside Chat - Brainfeeder Special

This is the man like Fly Lo with a handpicked selection of inner and outer circle Brainfeeder specials. The lotus has landed!

Go To Show - More Hip Hop

Modeselektor

(Monkeytown, Berlin)

Headphone Highlights - London Session

Get Top of the Pops with Gernot and Szary. With them, Ramadanman is only a stone's throw away from Charlotte Gainsbourg - highly amusing announcements and chit chat included.

Go To Show - More Electronic

Jay Electronica

(Decon, The Dogon Society, New York, USA)

Fireside Chat - London Session

Hip hop's most recent lyrical wonder telling the tales that made him tall. To paraphrase his collaboration with Talib Kweli und Hi-Tek: he's only just begun.

Go To Show - More Hip Hop

Vince Clarke

(Erasure, Yazoo, UK)

Fireside Chat

Synth Pop? Vince Clarke! The groundbreaking Depeche Mode, Erasure, Yazoo man with his inside out.

Go To Show - More Pop

Picks Of The Day

Moodymann

(KDJ, Mahogani Music, Detroit)

Live from London - RBMA Rollerskating Jam - Pt 1

You can't kick this feeling when it hits! Rollerball enigma and silhouetted man-on-the-mic Kenny Dixon Jr. with the jams that make the jam. Vinyl only, please! Bounce, skate, roll!

Go To Show - More House/Disco

RBMA Culture Clash

(London 2010)

Live from London feat. Metalheadz, DMZ, Trojan, Soul II Soul - Final Round - The Decider

No ice cream sound allowed! Check four of London's baddest sounds playing nuff big tunes from four generations of bass culture.

Go To Show - More Reggae/Dub

Aeroplane

(Eskimo, Belgium)

On The Floor! - Live at Making Time, Philadelphia

Aeroplane isn't a new Belgian airline, but the hottest disco duo the country has to offer. Live and direct at Philly's Making Time party!

Go To Show - More House/Disco

Carl Craig, Francesco Tristano & Moritz von Oswald

(Detroit, Barcelona, Berlin)

Live from London - Royal Festival Hall

An electronic music super group? Von Oswald's rhythm and Craig's sound complemented by Tristano's piano at London's Royal Festival Hall.

Go To Show - More Electronic

Appleblim & Ramadanman

(Applepips, Hessle Audio, Bristol, London)

Live from London - Sin City, Plan B

Two masterminds in the world of free-spirited bass music team up with their dubstep-to-techno-to-funky alchemy.

Go To Show - More Dubstep/Breaks

Picks Of The Day

Soundstream

(Soundhack, Smith n Hack, Berlin)

Live from London - Secretsundaze - Pt 1

Berlin's irresistible Soundstream with a heavy dose of his trademark jack tracks, dubby disco loops and hypnotic house grooves. Live at Secretsundaze!

Go To Show - More House/Disco

Hudson Mohawke

(Warp Records, Glasgow)

On The Floor! - WARP/ED Session

The one any only Hud Mo with another cone-wobbling mix full of 8-bit crunch, digi soul, wonky beats and synth encounters of the third kind.

Go To Show - More

?uestlove

(The Roots, Philadelphia)

These Are The Breaks

Drums, please! Questlove still eats, drinks and releases Hip Hop in all colours, shapes and sizes.

Go To Show - More Funk/Soul

Morgan Geist

(Metro Area, Environ, Brooklyn)

Personal - Vol 20 - Happy Birthday Patrick!

The Geist inside the special fx machine: Environ's boss man and super producer glues yesterday's and tomorrow's Disco together.

Go To Show - More House/Disco

Pepe Bradock

(Atavisme, Paris)

Train Wreck Mix - Volume 1

The enfant mystérieux of the French (house) music scene with a very special selection. Inspiration information!

Go To Show - More House/Disco

Picks Of The Day

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Dem A Call Us Pirates…

RBMA Radio takes over Lisbon's airwaves

The revolution will not be televised – it will be broadcasted. On Antena 3, that is, as well as on Red Bull Music Academy Radio and a special pirate frequency destined to flood the sete colinas of Lisbon with nuff bass and musical vibes for ten hours on June 12.

From 4 pm to 2 am, a bunch of creative minds from the extended Portuguese Academy family will take over the Santa Catarina Palace in Lisbon for a celebration of the musical heritage and culture in the Portuguese-speaking world. All sets will be recorded and spread throughout the city via a pirate frequency announced on the same day at the Palace doors, nationwide through the Academy’s acclaimed partner station Antena 3, and even worldwide throughrbmaradio.com.

DJs, manjerico poets, emcees, fado singers and producers such as Ginga ninja DJ Ride, Macacos do Chinês, and Barcelona alumnus Mushug, will be at the forefront of this concerted bumrush and biggest street party within the city’s Santo António festivities.

In case you won’t be able to show up at Santa Catarina to pump up the volume with your boombox, handheld soundsystem, mobile phone or whatever is capable of tuning into FM radio these days, tune in online and start gearing up now with the 16 episodes of Portugal’s very own Ginga Beat show.