2011 sees the seventh year of collaboration between Sonar and Red Bull Music Academy, which is undoubtedly one of the world’s most important trackers of global talent.
And for the third consecutive year, the Red Bull Music Academy is responsible for curating the SonarDôme stage, at Sonar by Day, which completes its line-up with the inclusion of 12 new artists, in addition to the 14 announced previously.
A total of 26 shows by artists coming from 13 countries over 3 days (16, 17 and 18 June) in a unique mix of live music, global rhythms and a controlled chaos of melodies and acts with very different origins and and styles.
The headlining shows by Katy B, The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble, Zinc andDiscodeine, are joined now by these new additions such as the young North American beatmaker 00Genesis; the Romanian hitek house producer Cosmin TRG; the legendary British reggae dj David Rodigan; the Spanish beatmakers Niño and Debilorithmicos, and one of Spain’s best djs Carlos Hollers; the New Zealand band Electric Wire Hustle; the dreamy house of Japan’s Hiroaki Oba; the danceable rhythms of San Soda; the native hip-hop of Matador Rockers and Pai Mei, the new leading lights in the Del Palo collective.
This is the definitive line-up presented by Red Bull Music Academy at SonarDôme:
00Genesis (Rxlngr/US)
AEIOU (Universal/MX)
B. Bravo (Frite Nite/US)
Carlos Hollers (Goad Rec/ES)
Cosmin TRG (Rush Hour/RO)
Daisuke Tanabe (Circulations/JP)
David Rodigan (Kiss FM/UK)
Debilorithmicos (Molts Records/ES)
Discodeine (Dirty/FR)
Electric Wire Hustle (BBE/NZ)
Hiroaki Oba (BITB/JP)
Illum Sphere (Hoya:Hoya/UK)
Jullian Gomes (G. Family/ZA)
Katy B (UK)
kidkanevil (First Word/UK)
Matador Rockers (Del Palo/ES)
Niño (Donky Pitch/ES)
Pai Mei (Del Palo/ES)
Poirier feat. Boogat (Ninja Tune/CA)
San Soda (We Play House/BE)
Star Eyes (Trouble & Bass/US)
Teebs (Brainfeeder/US)
The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble (!K7/DE)
Tiger & Woods (Running Back/Outerspace)
Venice (Gomma/IT)
Zinc (Bingo Beats/UK)
Red Bull Music Academy is one of the main trackers of musical talent in the entire world, and one of the cultural institutions that comes closest to the Sonar philosophy. For over 13 years, the Red Bull Music Academy has been selecting young producers and artists from all over the world in order to stimulate their creativity and facilitate their learning by means of a travelling musical academy, which was based in Barcelona in 2008 and will take place in Madrid, at the multi-disciplinary arts complex Matadero Madrid, from the 23rd of October until the 25th of November 2011.
