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Friday, July 28, 2017

Red Bull 3Style Sets Date for National Finalist Announcements

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DJ Puffy at the 2016 Red Bull Thre3Style World Finals in Santiago, Chile. (Alfred Jürgen Westermeyer/Red Bull)

DJcity will reveal the Red Bull 3Style national finalists for each participating country starting Monday, August 7. Like last year, there will be six finalists per country.

The national finals will take place from September to December. The winner of each, along with three wild cards from non-participating countries, will compete at the world finals in Poland. The wild cards will be announced in September.

For the first time since the competition began, DJs will be allowed to compete with all-in-one controllers in place of players and mixers.

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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Entries Open for Red Bull 3Style

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Red Bull 3Style has begun accepting submissions for this year’s competition.

DJs from around the world can now apply for a chance to compete in the national finals of their country of origin. If their country is not hosting a national, then the DJ has a chance to compete in the world finals as a wild card.

This year’s 3Style is open to DJs who use all-in-one controllers in place of players and a mixer. However, 3Style has noted that DJs who use all-in-one devices should make the most of their capabilities.

To apply, fill out the form and submit a five-minute performance video at 3Style’s website. The submission process ends on May 31.

3Style will announce the participating countries along with their finalists on July 1 (six per country). The wild card finalists will be revealed on the same day.

The national finals will take place from September to November 2017. The winner of each final will represent their country at the world finals in Poland.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Details of Next Red Bull 3Style World Finals Revealed

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Red Bull 3Style has announced the details of the eighth world finals, which will take place in Krakow, Poland.

Entries for the competition open on May 1 and close on May 31. To apply, DJs must register and submit a five-minute performance video on the 3Style website. A full list of rules can also be found there.

Speaking of rules, for the first time, 3Style will allow DJs to use all-in-one controllers in place of players and a mixer. However, their website says that DJs “better freak that thing.”

3Style will announce the participating countries on July 1 along with their respective finalists (six per country). DJs who don’t live in a participating country will still have a chance to compete in the world finals as a wild card. The list of wild card finalists will be revealed alongside the national finalists.

The national finals will take place from September to November 2017. The winner of each final will represent their country at the world finals in Poland.

The spelling and numbering convention of the competition have also changed. The spelling is now “3Style” (it used to be “Thre3style”) and Roman numerals are used instead of the year (3Style World Finals VIII).

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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Skratch Bastid Discusses the ‘Amen Breakbeat’

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The 2016 Red Bull Thre3style World Finals included a variety of workshops and jam sessions. One of our favorites was the “Ultimate Breaks and Beats” event, which was named after the 1980s compilation series of the same name.

In this behind the scenes clip, Skratch Bastid discusses the importance of the “Amen break” and Poland’s VaZee scratches over it.

Released by The Winstons in 1969, “Amen, Brother” is one of the most famous samples of all time. According to WhoSampled, it has been used in over 2,500 hip-hop, jungle, and drum and bass songs.

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Monday, March 13, 2017

69Beats Shares Advice on How to Create a Thre3style Routine

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69Beats performs at the Red Bull Thre3style World Final in Santiago, Chile on Dec. 16, 2016. (Alfred Jürgen Westermeyer/Red Bull)

69Beats, the 2016 Red Bull Thre3style Poland Champion, has shared some advice on how to create a Thre3style routine. The 28-year-old DJ has been inspired to help beginner DJs as the submission process for this year’s competition approaches.

In a lengthy message posted to Facebook and YouTube, 69Beats broke down his “Fire Story” sequence, which he performed at last year’s world finals. The sequence is based on “storytelling,” a technique in which a DJ strings together multiple “word plays” to tell a story.

“Storytelling is nothing new in [the] DJ world,” 69Beats wrote. “There are many, many sets with many different approaches to storytelling. For me storytelling was a natural ‘level-up’ from just simple word play.”

He continued: “While preparing for Thre3style 2016 I wanted to take [it] a little further for myself so instead of just mixing tracks with the same phrases I started collecting tracks that had the same theme and doing bigger combos of them. And while [I was] collecting ‘fire’ themed songs I started to see that some of them [were] actualy [sic] creating a sequence of events and decided to make a full routine based on that.”

69Beats also wanted the routine to be versatile as possible. “The whole sequence is flavoured with as many different techniques as possible – scratching, juggling, tone playing/pitch playing, fingerdrumming [sic], cue point drumming etc.”

Watch his sequence and read his breakdown below.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

DJ Cross Performs Unheard Thre3style Routine

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DJ Cross, the 2016 Red Bull Thre3Style Belgium Champion, has performed an unheard Thre3style routine exclusively for DJcityTV. The two-a-half-minute piece was intended to be the intro of his set at the world finals, but he didn’t get a chance to perform it.

Tracklist:

1. The East Flatbush Project ft. DeS – Tried By 12
2. Cronelnegro Acapella
3. TNGHT – Bugg’n
4. Eek-A-Mouse – Anarexol – D-DOTs Remix
5. Buraka Som Sistema – Hangover (BaBaBa) – Acapella
6. RL Grime – Core

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