Give them each a laptop computer, recording equipment, and the expertise of two LA-based studio pros. Sequester them in a downtown B&B with all the junk food they can eat. Can they make music worthy of the dance floor let alone jump-start a career - in just 4 days?
By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff, 4/18/2004
The man with the dreadlocks slams down his headphones. For two days and nights, Rodney Marable has been huddled over a PowerBook, packing the computer with RZA, Black Uhuru, and Gipsy Kings samples. He's trying to turn these clips into a song. And he's failing. As a DJ at bars in Somerville and Cambridge, Marable has been stuck spinning other people's stuff. That's why he applied to participate in the Red Bull Music Labs, an intensive four-day workshop paid for by the caffeine-spiked energy-drink company. To make his own track.
The students were given 12" PowerBook!
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/109/living/Take_10+.shtml
By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff, 4/18/2004
The man with the dreadlocks slams down his headphones. For two days and nights, Rodney Marable has been huddled over a PowerBook, packing the computer with RZA, Black Uhuru, and Gipsy Kings samples. He's trying to turn these clips into a song. And he's failing. As a DJ at bars in Somerville and Cambridge, Marable has been stuck spinning other people's stuff. That's why he applied to participate in the Red Bull Music Labs, an intensive four-day workshop paid for by the caffeine-spiked energy-drink company. To make his own track.
The students were given 12" PowerBook!
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/109/living/Take_10+.shtml