Meet 11-Year Old Aussie Producer Black Summer

Get ready to feel inadequate, there’s a new producer making a splash in the Australian music scene and he’s only 11 freaken years old. Known to his mum and dad as Rhys, the Canberra EDM king makes beats under the name Black Summer.

Already boasting fans like Nina Las Vegas and Flume, the EDM prodigy told triple j he’s been making music for “five or six years now” – meaning he started at age 5, when you and I were busy learning how to tie our shoes.

“You’d hear Metallica blaring out of his room, then he’d be singing along to Pink Floyd, then he’s on the computer making electronic music,” explains his dad. “We don’t have a clue how to operate what he uses.”

Now Black Summer has himself a studio, set up in his dad’s home office, and has uploaded three tracks to his triple j Unearthed profile. One track, Toxic Nirvana (below), even has its own stop-motion music video made with Lego.