Red Bull Thre3Style has changed the face of modern DJ battles and has proven itself to be one of the most entertaining events of its kind. Beginning in Canada four years ago, in 2010 Red Bull Thre3Style became an international competition. Events took place in ten countries around the globe that culminated in a sonic clash-of-the-titans world final in Paris, France at the end of the year.
The rules of Red Bull Thre3Style ensure that the competition is a perfect marriage of technical Djing and party rocking prowess. Participants have to play a selection of three genres or styles of music in 15 minutes. It doesn't matter what genres of music are chosen so long as the DJ can make them work together. The participating DJs are judged on their track-selection, technical skills, creativity and most importantly their ability to bring the house down. It doesn't matter if they know all the DJing tricks and techniques in the book, if they cant get the feet on the dancefloor and hands in the air, they don’t stand a chance of winning a Red Bull Thre3Style battle.
In previous years Red Bull Thre3Style had been an exclusively Canadian event, but in 2010 the competition went global with ten countries from around the world hosting events to determine who the top party rocker in their country would be. This year the ante has been upped with challenges taking place in 16 different countries around the globe! Each country will select top DJs to participate per qualifier and the winners of those battles will compete in a national final to determine who is the Red Bull Thre3Style champion for that country. The ten champions from around the world will then go on to compete at the final in Vancouver, Canada in December. The winner will be the second international champion in history and they will have Red Bull's official stamp of approval that they can rock the party like nobodies business.
Every Red Bull Thre3Style battle will be judged by a panel of professional party starting DJs with much experience in the industry. And once everyone has played and the winner announced, the judges themselves will get behind the 1’s and 2’s to show the crowd just how it’s done. So if you want to experience a night where every DJ is out to entertain to the max, you can't miss Red Bull Thre3Style.
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The essence of Red Bull Thre3Style
DJing has grown from being a skill simply based on entertaining people with recorded music, to become one the modern world's most popular and celebrated art forms. DJs around the globe pursue their skills and techniques with obsessive vigor, sourcing never-heard-before works of musical genius, learning to beat-match so well that each tracks flows seamlessly into the next and pushing the art of turntablism or scratch-DJing to the point that they can literally re-invent a song on the spot. Yet so many spinners forget that the founding principle of DJing has never changed: DJs are there to entertain people with recorded music, in layman's terms, "Rock the party with records".
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. Red Bull Thre3Style 2009 raised the temperature like a club with no air-con. 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