The Red Bull Music Academy have announced that they plan to take the Academy out of Europe for the first time and set up shop in Tokyo.

Speaking to Resident Advisor, Davide Bortot, one of the event organisers claimed, "We wanted to do something outside Europe, and Tokyo just felt right. It has an amazingly vibrant subculture, great clubs, record shops, a lot of people who are really into underground music. But then again there are not that many institutions for music in Japan, it's hard for people who grew up there to actually make a living out of their passion. You have a great scene there, and music fans love to dig deeper. So it's the perfect space for a project like this. It's also quite challenging, and very different from cities we've done before, like Barcelona or London."

The RBMA hits Tokyo at the end of 2011.