3 genres, 8 DJs, 15 Minutes. The search for the country’s best party rocker begins on October 5 in the city where it all began – Vancouver. Red Bull Thre3style has ignited clubgoers across Canada and beyond and will continue to do so in 10 cities across Canada featuring eight of the best local DJs throwing down their best party sets. The challenge: each DJ needs to deliver 15 minutes of sonic infamy that incorporates a minimum of three genres of music. The constant: a pulsating, all-in all-out crowd. Capping each night is a special headlining performance from Canadian DJ legend Skratch Bastid, with the first show touching down in Vancouver on October 5 at Fortune.
Red Bull Thre3style: The Infinite Playlist
The tools: Two Technics 1200 Turntables, one Rane TTM57 mixer, terabytes of tracks and years of sleepless nights djing, That is the pre-requisite for 80 of Canada’s best DJ’s as they sort through millions of songs and potential mixes to prepare for the ultimate live DJ party competition.
Red Bull Thre3style will feature the industry’s top talent – music writers, musicians, promoters, bloggers and headlining DJ’s – judging the DJs, evaluating each performer based on Originality/creativity, track selection, skills, stage presence, and audience response. The winner of each stop will move on to the National Final set to take place in Toronto on Saturday November 12 at Sound Academy.
Bringing it back to it’s roots, 2011 will mark a milestone as the World Finals will be taking place in Vancouver on December 12 – 17 as the world’s top DJs will be battling it out for ultimate turn table domination.
The History of Red Bull Thre3Style
The original concept of Red Bull Thre3Style began three years ago as a Tuesday night experiment at a small club. With a steady supply of Red Bull, the concept found its wings in 2007 and became a fully-fledged DJ battle. The event had a regional focus and took place in six cities across Canada.
In 2008 Red Bull Thre3Style exploded with ten regional qualifiers throughout Canada. Local contests took place in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Victoria. The finals took place at CiRCA in Toronto and it was Halifax's DJ Cosmo, an old school meets new-school alchemist, who clinched the title.
In 2010 the event went global and changed the face of modern DJ battles. From the USA to Japan to Colombia to New Zealand, 10 countries from around the world held deep-heated events to determine who the best party-rocking battle ambassador would be. Ultimately these warriors of the one’s and two’s came together in Paris, France at the end of the year and flexed every musical muscle in their body at the Red Bull Thre3Style International Finals at the Élysée Montmartre. In the end is was Paris’s own DJ kArve who wowed the judges, consisting of heavyweights such as Jazzy Jeff and DJ Craze, with his impressive collage of hip-hop head-nodding electro-rocking tunage. If last year’s event was anything to go by then Red Bull Thre3Style 2011 is guaranteed to send the international DJing scene spinning like a record on a turntable.
Red Bull Thre3style 2011 Events
Oct 1 EDMONTON Empire Ballroom
Oct 5 VANCOUVERFortune
Oct 6 WINNIPEG Rockbar
Oct 13 TORONTO Guvernment
Oct 14 LONDON Club Rouge
Oct 15 OTTAWARitual
Oct 20 HALIFAX Palace - line up TBC
Oct 21 MONTREAL Telus Theatre
Oct 22 QUEBEC Ozone - line up TBC
Nov 12 TORONTOSound Academy - NATIONAL FINAL - line up TBC
Dec 17VANCOUVERCommodore - WORLD FINAL - line up TBC
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