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Equiknoxx and Shanique Marie on a New Jamaican Sound | Red Bull Music Academy

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Channel: Red Bull Music Academy · 2018 · Entertainment

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Over the past decade, Equiknoxx has become one of the most reliable and innovative production crews in Kingston, Jamaica. 

In this extended lecture at the 2008 Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona, he talked about the making of the seminal album It Takes a Nation of Million to Hold Us Back, his path to fame, the changing nature of the music industry, politics, art, and plenty more.
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TOPICS:
08:42 - Origins of Equiknoxx 
14:54 - Influence of Soundsystem culture
21:47 - Sampling bird sounds
26:19 - Daggering and dancehall politics 
38:58 - Connecting to Poland and Manchester 
54:47 - Turning things into our own 

MUSIC: 
24:05 - Aidonia – “Flying Dagger aka 100 Stab” https://youtu.be/Y9QXuuvfGr0
50:21 - Equiknoxx – “Last of The Mohicans”
55:49 - Equiknoxx – “Plaintain Porridge” https://youtu.be/_Cd6DAT0Aso

Centred around the producers Gavin Blair, AKA Gavsborg, and Jordan Chung, AKA Time Cow, alongside vocalists Shanique Marie, Kemikal and Bobby Blackbird, Equiknoxx draw from the same innovative flair as their illustrious predecessors to make riddims for the 21st century. After years of local work with some of the biggest names in dancehall – Aidonia, Beenie Man, T.O.K – Equiknoxx crash-landed the global dance and electronic scenes with their 2016 album Bird Sound Power, a collection of unreleased riddims that drew a line between Kingston, America and Africa. Released by Manchester’s DDS label, the album was praised by both industry and fans and was soon followed by a proper, yet still fully instrumental, album, Colón Man.

The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year.

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