Every song I put out, when I listen to it again, I can hear what I want to change. TC: How do you know when you’re done with a track, is there an innate desire to go back and fiddle with it?įlume: Always. So there are all these factors that come into play which I try and block to keep the art as pure as possible. Now I think about things, you know? I’ll finish a song and then I’ll think, but what if I worked with so-and-so, maybe it would get more exposure? And if I want to play it at the shows I end up tending to go heavier sometimes, when often I feel like a song doesn’t need to, but because it’s always more satisfying to see people’s reactions to heavier songs. TC: In the beginning you were making music purely for the love of, there was no bright spotlight or pressure on you, do you feel like it was easier in the beginning?įlume: Definitely. It was from a pure place though it wasn’t poisoned by what other people thought – it was just pure creativity. So I just did whatever felt right and wacked it up online and things kind of snowballed. Beat stuff I loved it, but sometimes I wanted a bit more melody. I felt like there was a void in music at the time and a lot of the L.A. TC: Where did the confidence in your sound come from? To so boldly push a sound that no one else was making at the time and a sound that’s really shaped this new wave?įlume: Honestly, I was just making what I wanted to hear. Everyone takes inspiration from somewhere. Beat Scene and a lot of other dance music. I mean I knocked off people, I feel like I was really inspired by the L.A. I guess that happens to anything when it gets to a certain level of success. But it’s been a few years now and things have really evolved. But then I was like, you know they actually like it enough to want to do that, which is really flattering. TC: Do you feel like the way it happened is pretty cool though?įlume: Oh yeah it’s great! I feel like there are some really bad knock offs though which at first was a bit frustrating at times because I was like, man you literally just copied what I did and you did a shitter version of it. I don’t feel like a weight or a responsibility, I just kind of let it happen. In Australia there’s a huge producer scene and there’s a lot of people getting a lot of airplay and gigs and things. Tecla Ciolfi: What are the biggest challenges you face knowing that you inspired a generation of young producers to break out from bedroom production and take their music seriously? Do you feel any pressure because of this?įlume: I was part of one of the earlier wave of Soundcloud producers who were really able to break through. The Grammy Award winner looks totally at ease. The Australian producer and DJ is soft-spoken and unaffected, sitting cross-legged opposite me on a sofa backstage before his headlining set on Oppikoppi’s final night. With two highly successful albums, a string of high profile remixes, a superb collaborative EP with Chet Faker, and a string of awards under his belt, Harley Edward Streten (aka Flume) has achieved feats few in the industry could have predicted, all at the tender age of 25.
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