RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY & LAST OF THE RECORD BUYERS PRESENT: Come watch key twin cities and Rymesayers Entertainment artists create music with an unfamiliar collaborator in a limited amount of time and then perform it for you that same night!!! -THE MCS: Abstract Rude, Manifest, St Paul Slim, Carnage, New MC, Sims, & Felipe Cuauhtli -THE PRODUCERS: Blueprint, Medium Zach, O-D, Katrah-Quey, Benzilla, X:144 & Big Cats!
WHAT: Fourteen up and coming national and local independent hip hop emcees and producers will descend upon the studio rooms of the Institute of Production & Recording to create new music with an unfamiliar collaborator. Partnered up randomly, each producer will bring their best beats and each emcee will bring their best rhymes and in a limited amount of time create a new track and then perform it for the public just hours later.
WHO: The seven emcees: Abstract Rude, Manifest, St. Paul Slim, Carnage, New MC, Sims of Doomtree & Felipe Cuauhtli of Los Nativos.
The seven producers: Blueprint, Medium Zach of Big Quarters, O-D, Katrah-Quey, Benzilla, X:144 and Big Cats.
Hosted by Brandon Allday of Big Quarters. For more information on the artists visit http://bit.ly/DgXxL
WHEN: Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 6pm for the artists to begin their 3 hour collaboration, and 9pm for the public to watch each newly formed duo perform their song
WHERE: The Institute of Production & Recording (IPR) 312 Washington Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55401The event is all ages and free to the public.
LIVE STREAM: For those that cannot make the event, the collaboration will be broadcast live online at http://www.livestream.com/contentunderpressure
http://www.myspace.com/contentunderpressurelrb
