SAPIENZA: Do you remember the first song you ever made?įLUME: I made a lot of shit songs, so many terrible songs. The production was cutting edge for the ’90s back then. It’s kind of like these American guys went to Africa and recorded all local music and mixed it with new age. ![]() It’s actually still one of my favorite albums of all time. SAPIENZA: What’s your earliest music memory?įLUME: My parents used to play me this album when I couldn’t go to sleep. I’m just sitting back in the dressing room by the rocks. We just had a really intense period of three shows in Seattle and then four shows at the Shrine in L.A., then one in San Diego. This Saturday, he will perform at Forest Hills Stadium in New York.įLUME: It’s going good. We spoke over the phone before his performance at Red Rocks in Colorado, and discussed meditation, sound design, and the fear of a sophomore slump. Its much-anticipated follow up, Skin (Future Classic), came out in May, and its upbeat, candy coated EDM tracks (“Never Be Like You” and “Say It”) were met with commercial success and crowded concerts.įlume is in the midst of a world tour, playing at arenas and stadiums alike. While he was only 21 at the time of Flume‘s release, the album was critically acclaimed and launched Streten into recognition across the internet and airwaves. It’s title track is an airy take on the head-bobbing, sampling distortions of J Dilla and Flying Lotus, and set the tone for his self-titled LP in 2012. ![]() Streten continued to make music as a teen, upgrading to other mixing programs over the years, and in 2011-after submitting songs to a Future Classic competition-released his debut EP Sleepless (Future Classic). ![]() His cardboard box beginnings have proved fruitful. I got it and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.” “There was this cereal and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. “I was nine and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad,” Streten recalls. Harley Streten, the 24-year-old producer and musical artist who you likely know by the name Flume, discovered music through a cereal box.
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