Aussies Named Among Red Bull Music Academy Line-Up

11 July 2014 | 1:28 pm | Staff Writer

Three of our finest will rep the nation at the series’ Tokyo event

Internationally renowned travelling workshop series the
Red Bull Music Academy
has announced its participants for its Tokyo event this October and November, with three Aussies scoring a place among the lucky golden ticket-holding delegation.

The wonders from Down Under to have scored themselves a coveted spot at the series of lectures, workshops, studio collaborations and performances are Summer Disbray, aka Summer, Lewis Gittus, aka Lewis Cancut, and Mark Maxwell, aka Estii and Yale.

The trio were among 60 artists from 34 countries selected from a pool of more than 6000 applicants, about a 60% increase on 2013's numbers.

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Berlin-based, Australian-born producer, DJ, instrumentalist and vocalist Summer has been steadily earning herself a reputation for crafting refined chill-out, house and R&B arrangements that take cues from soul, synth-pop and electronica – when she's not honing her graffiti and baking skills on the side. Have a listen below to get acquainted:

 

Lewis Cancut hails from the Greater Melbourne locality of Kallista, from where the renowned producer and DJ constructs the distinct style of “tropical trap” that has helped make him a regular offsider to the likes of Diplo, Switch, Benny Blanco, Crookers and Sinden.

In addition to his performance work, Cancut spends time running his own label, Scattermusic, as well as pitching in for collabs with other producers and MCs, and putting out remixes, not to mention probably sleeping and eating in there somewhere, too. Expect big things following this experience.

 

Newmarket-bred producer, DJ and instrumentalist Mark Maxwell, of Estii and Yale, deals in expertly assembled nu disco and pop sounds, putting his training in mechanical engineering to good use with a methodical approach to creating his tunes that has seen the performer get snapped up for spots at festivals such as Future and Creamfields.

Maxwell – who has been compared with Swedish luminary Todd Terje – has a penchant for truly danceable and dynamic arrangements that pulse and push and pressurise as well as occasionally detouring into R&B-flecked, wub-dappled slow jams, and, like his fellow Aussie RBMA attendees, is sitting at the cusp of a fresh bout of world-conquering.

 

The three Aussies will join international participants such as Istanbul-bred experimental noise artist Ipek Gorgun, challenging New York City hip-hopper Zebra Katz, Paris-based chanteuse Lafawndah, Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Laura J. Martin, and Sapphire Slows, of Tokyo.

This year's RBMA events have a brand new interactive website created in collaboration with graphic design studio Other Means, which is up and running now, as well as the premiere airing of the trailer for Layered Memories, a documentary about 2011 academy graduate Yosi Horikawa that is due for release in August.

 

 

The 2014 Red Bull Music Academy Tokyo event will be held from October 12-November 14 this year. See the Red Bull Music Academy website for more information.