Flume sleepless sample2/25/2024 ![]() I always look to dudes like Rustie, Hudson Mowhake and Flying Lotus. The biggest thing I get off on is innovation. I respect good songwriting, guitar, vocals and chords. I feel like I have my own sound and I want to pursue that. At the first meeting with Future Classic, the last thing they said to me before I left was: “Essentially, what we want you to do is make your own genre.” It was a bit of joke, but that’s the type of mentality that they have. If they had called me up initially and offered me that right away, I would have said yes to a shitty contract and I would probably be doing music that I hate. Soon after that came about, all the big labels started taking notice-Universal, Sony and all this shit. The best thing about it is they are an indie label. They had a remix competition and I sent in the “Sleepless” CD, which I had sitting on my hard drive for quite a few years. I thought it was a bit more of dance music than my music, but I thought it would be worth being on a cool label. How did you end up joining your label Future Classic? ![]() Literally a few months after I really started working, Future Classic came along. After six months I said to myself I’ve got to make this happen, so I quit playing computer games, quit smoking weed, just knuckled down and started writing a whole bunch of stuff. I Just hung around being a bit lazy, played a lot of compute games, smoked the bong-just being a teenager. I didn’t go straight to university or anything. I knew what I wanted to do from quite a young age.Įventually I left school and had a gap year. I had all this time wondering around the blocks for ages delivering and I’d always daydream of one day performing, traveling around the world and stuff. I’ve been writing music as a hobby since I was 11 years old. What did your family think when you decided to pursue music professionally? By themselves, they don’t sound amazing but when you drum them together it sounds like a whole piece of music. The whole concept of how you can separate drums from synths and the bass was really interesting to me. ![]() I plugged it into the computer and had to muck around. It was Nutri-Grain and a thing called Andrew J’s music maker, a simple loop mix program. What type of cereal was it and how did this find jump start your career? You began creating your own music at age 11 or 12 after finding a music production disc packaged inside a box of cereal. The 21-year-old Australian producer’s beats range anywhere from deep chill-out house to instrumental hip hop, all of which will be on full display when he returns to San Francisco at Mezzanine on August 24.įlume’s recent collaborations include tracks with with lo-fi artist Moon Holiday, Melbourne-based downtempo talent Chet Faker and fellow Sydney resident and female model Jezzabell Doran on his noteworthy track “Sleepless.” We had the chance to talk with Flume in an interview from Ireland to ask him a few questions about how he got into producing, details of his global tour and run-ins with Skrillex and Diplo during his last visit to San Francisco. Harley Streten, better known as Flume, carries a welcome tendency to pair savvy original beats with complementary vocal artists.
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