Flume songs3/3/2024 ![]() Streten wrote this beat in a streak of inspiration – “the only tune I’ve successfully written hungover,” he told Pedestrian - then passed it to T.Shirt. ![]() It’s fitting that ‘On Top’ follows the pillowy warmth of ‘Sleepless’ on Flume: two clear sides of a shape-shifting producer. However, this one set the template for his future adventures in hip-hop. T.Shirt) Ĭonsidering the fully realised hits that came later, ‘On Top’ can feel like minor Flume. While ‘Sleepless’ came first, ‘Holdin On’ is perhaps his prototypical song - the one that gave a legion of would-be Flumes some big ideas.įun fact: the central sample - disco singer Anthony White’s take on Otis Redding’s ‘I Can’t Turn You Loose’ - came recommended from Van She’s Michael Di Francesco (later Touch Sensitive). Streten’s 2012 began with a midday slot at Field Day and ended with a No. As he put it to Pedestrian back in 2012, “This was the tune that started it all for me.” Six years later, Flume was back at Field Day to close the main stage - and he still played ‘Sleepless’. (In another snapshot of changing times, Calvin Harris played at the diminutive hour of 2:40pm.) His set time: 12:45pm, fresh from gates opening, on the smallest stage. Streten’s early productions won him the triple j Unearthed slot at Sydney’s Field Day on January 1, 2012. The partnership would change everything for both artist and label. Streten submitted the track for a Future Classic artist competition - it didn’t win, but they signed him anyway. If ‘Possum’ set the stage, ‘Sleepless’ was Flume’s breakout performance. What the track lacks in studio sheen, it makes up for in sheer exuberance - standing alone in Flume’s catalogue and setting a marker for the next eight years. “It made me realise this is the kind of music I want to make,” he wrote.Īs it turned out, the cereal box dreamer was a natural perfectionist, eventually submitting ‘Possum’ to triple j Unearthed in 2011. His real light bulb moment, though, was hearing Jai Paul’s ‘BTSTU’ for the first time. It sounds almost too Wikipedia-perfect, but Streten really did start making beats using free software from a box of Nutri-Grain.īefore that auspicious supermarket shop with his Dad, young Harley learned about hardcore trance from his next-door neighbour’s older brother. Here’s the unfolding story of Flume, from teenage amateur to Australia’s biggest electronic act, in 15 key tracks. (This followed a short lived 140-BPM trance phase.)Īfter countless laptop hours, he had something good enough for triple j Unearthed. Nine years ago, Streten was living with his parents on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, channelling his love of Flying Lotus, Shlohmo and Jai Paul into rudimentary beatmaking. It helps, of course, to have his preternatural talent. You know, regular stuff you do in your 20s.įlume’s stratospheric success is now a touchstone for bedroom producers everywhere. Around those releases, Streten cemented his stardom overseas, playing every festival worth playing, sharing studios with rap royalty and even winning a Grammy for Skin. Those five year gave us Flume’s second album, Skin, two companion EPs, some welcome surprise singles and the Hi This Is Flume mixtape. The homegrown boy wonder last played the festival back in 2014, and a lot has happened since. This October, Harley Streten will fly around the country as Listen Out’s 2019 headliner. Want more Junkee in your life? Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook so you always know where to find us.
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