BRUX to represent Australia in Berlin at Red Bull Music Academy

Sydney EDM act BRUX will be Australia’s participant in this year’s Red Bull Music Academy.

Now in its 20th year, the Academy takes place in Berlin from September 8 to October 12.

Over the five weeks, BRUX will experience lectures, record studio sessions where participants work on new music together, and one-of-a-kind music events alongside 61 emerging names from 37 countries including Kenya, South Korea, Mexico, Canada, the Philippines, Russia, New Zealand, Spain, Turkey and Brazil.

This year’s representatives are exponents of a diverse range of styles including Japanese electronica; IDM from Iran’s underground club scene; new-school UK jazz; Afro-future dance music from South Africa; experimental hip-hop from Germany; Nigerian neo-soul; Georgian drone; industrial techno from Poland; and post-punk from the US.

BRUX is a recording project of DJ, producer and singer songwriter Elizabeth Maniscalco, which pays tribute to one of her greatest inspirations The Knife.

It marks a heavier and darker direction for Maniscalco, from the synth tracks she created as Elizabeth Rose.

Under the Rose moniker, she won the Qantas Spirit of Youth Music Award, FBI Radio’s Next Big Thing SMAC award, and her ‘The Good Life’ was most played song on triple j in 2014.

Recently, collaborated with LA producer Madeaux on “The Wave” on Fool’s Gold Records, showing just how she throws down those sorcerous tones in a club context.

The Academy boasts almost a thousand alumni.

Through the years, lecturers have included Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Erykah Badu, Ryuichi Sakamoto, D’Angelo, George Clinton, Nile Rodgers, Frankie Knuckles, Giorgio Moroder, Questlove, Stephen O’Malley, Rakim, RZA, Steve Reich, M.I.A., and pioneering synth inventors Bob Moog, Tom Oberheim, Don Buchla, Roger Linn and Dave Smith.