Martyn Guest Curates Red Bull Music Academy’s Online Magazine
The 3024 and Ninja Tune DJ/producer takes over our magazine to celebrate his album The Air Between Words.
Martyn is one of house and techno’s most distinctive DJ and producer’s precisely because he doesn’t come from a strictly house and techno background. Dutch-born Martijn Deykers started in the electronic music world as a drum & bass DJ, heavily influenced by Metalheadz’s Blue Note sessions.
It’s been impossible to pin Martyn down, ever since he left drum & bass behind. The only thing you can say about his third full-length album, The Air Between Words, is that it sounds like Martyn. (Even when guest stars Four Tet and copeland turn up.) The Washington DC-based producer has a cohesive sound, despite rarely revisiting the same sound twice.
In advance of that third album, we invited Martyn to take over Red Bull Music Academy’s online magazine for the week. With wide-ranging musical (and non-musical) tastes, he selected a fascinating spectrum of articles that we rolled out over the five days.
Martyn: An Introduction
A brief overview of the DJ/producer’s career thus far.
Stop Making Sense: An Appreciation
The Dissolve’s Noel Murray considers how the Talking Heads concert film came to be regarded as one of the finest concert documentaries of all-time.
Interview: Eskimo Noise’s Bevin Denton on Doing Sound For Metalheadz at Blue Note
We catch up with one of the sound architects behind the iconic drum & bass night.
A Guide to Strata-East
We run down some of Martyn’s favourite records from the iconic ’70s jazz label.
Interview: Morphosis on Charles Cohen, Lebanon and Ritual
We caught up with the Lebanese-born producer recently to talk about his upbringing, why Cohen’s work made such an impact on him and much more.
Martyn Interviews Wookie
Our guest curator talks to one of his UK dance music heroes.
Interview: MVRDV’s Jacob Van Rijs on Designing Eindhoven’s Effenaar
Music and architecture with the designer of the building that housed Martyn’s drum & bass night in Eindhoven.
Fugazi, Live at the White House, 1991
Mark Jenkins on a show the likes of which we’ll likely never see again: A hardcore band’s protest concert in front of the White House.
Interview: It’s Bigger Than’s Dan Cole and Lisa Swarna Khanna on Dance Music and Charity
A sit-down with the founders behind the Berlin-based charity initiative.
Image - Mel D. Cole
