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“It completely shifted everything I was doing, and had a lot of influence on Flume.”Īnd that’s an unfortunate reality about this widely publicized album. “That was a new thing for me,” explains the producer about his discovery of the LA beat scene. But there’s more to Streten’s music put off by the commercialization of dance-music culture, he eventually turned to artists like Flying Lotus and Shlohmo. Jezzabell Doran)”-which featured on XLR8R back when it was initially released by Future Classic in August of 2011, marking one of Flume’s first media appearances before it found its way onto an international Rip Curl ad campaign-are upbeat and easily likable, and sound something like a clear-headed brand of chillwave. The influences undoubtedly show through, but it’s important to note that-unlike Skrillex, Rusko, A-Trak, or any other such EDM artist working with similar genres-Flume’s songs have a more tender side, and identify closer to pop music than, say, dubstep or electro-house. “Just 4/4 music, essentially.” In an interview with Dazed, he also named The Prodigy, French club music circa 2006, and early-’90s trance as touchstones of his sound.

The producer is quick to point out that his sound stems from the dancefloor. It would seem that the world of electronic dance music has found a new golden boy.Īmidst the flurry of accolades and benchmark achievements hurtled at Streten, however, an integral element of the hype feels somewhat overshadowed: his actual music. Subsequently, that aforementioned album stream was taken down, only to reappear a few months later on Complex as a “US premiere” from “one of the breakout beatmakers in 2013.” Now, Flume can be purchased on North American and UK iTunes, where it has been hovering around the Top 10 Electronic Albums chart alongside Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace album, Disclosure, Moby, and Daft Punk’s Discovery. After notoriously beating out One Direction and Pink for the #1 album slot on the Australian iTunes charts, he garnered rave reviews from various tastemakers, and eventually signed a deal with Mom + Pop, the US label currently backing upper-echelon indie-pop artists like Neon Indian, Sleigh Bells, and Metric. Around the initial release of his album, Califonia EDM outpost Magnetic called Flume a “phenomenon,” he was deemed “the future” by Australian website In the Mix, and the NY Times cited him as an artist to watch. “It’s definitely been a shift of life in general over the last few months,” Streten tells us from his home in Sydney, though it sounds like a complete understatement. Then, almost suddenly, something else happened: It blew the fuck up. Another young producer’s work got its day in the spotlight, and the gears of the music world kept turning.

The requisite PR email blasts were sent to the appropriate media outlets, a handful of which took note and shared Flume with its readers.

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In November of 2012 (exactly one year after Flume’s first live performance), a full stream of the album was posted to SoundCloud, just before local label Future Classic made it available for purchase on iTunes and other digital music stores. Flume) managed to do so well before it was “officially” released. It’s a safe bet that just about everyone who really wanted to hear the self-titled, debut LP by 21-year-old Australian Harley Streten (a.k.a.

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