Boiler Room (music project)
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| Industry | Music & Entertainment |
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| Founded | March 2010 |
| Founder | Blaise Bellville |
| Headquarters | London, England, UK |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Website | www |
Boiler Room is a global online music broadcasting platform commissioning and streaming live music sessions around the world. Founded in London, England in 2010, Boiler Room has now hosted shows in around 100 cities worldwide, from to Shanghai. They have regular operations in London, Amsterdam, New York City, Berlin, Lisbon, São Paulo, Mexico City, Kraków, Tokyo, Sydney, and Los Angeles and produce an average of 30–35 new shows each month. Their music programming originally focused on electronic music such as garage, house, techno, dub but quickly expanded to include additional genres, including grime, hip hop, classical, and jazz.
According to The Guardian, Boiler Room "have streamed over 3,500,000,000 minutes of music since starting out, with audiences of up to 400,000 tuning in to watch."
In March 2010 Boiler Room's founder Blaise Bellville invited Thristian "Thris Tian" Richards and the founder of NTS Radio, Femi Adeyemi, to record a mixtape for his online magazine Platform. The first Boiler Room session was recorded using a webcam duct taped to the wall of a disused boiler room, and the session was broadcast live online on Ustream.
During this period, Boiler Room developed their format of filming a DJ facing the camera a projected visual backdrop of the Boiler Room logo overlaid on old rave video footage, with Time Out noting: "the artists are, after all, the sole attraction at Boiler Room: attendees are positioned behind the decks in a bedroom DJ style set-up so that the selector is always the main figure in view."
Red Bull Music Academy explains how Boiler Room's initial visual style was developed further from the initial signature style: "the setup of a Boiler Room event, wherein the DJ faces the camera with the audience behind, left space for imagery in the background. The guys decided to add a big video projector screen to the mix during live broadcasts, and filmmaker Cieron Magat started placing the logo atop old rave footage."
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