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21-year-old Harley Streten, or Flume as he likes to be called, is a Sydney based producer who recently beat One Direction to the top of the Australian iTunes chart. Wow, already a hero to anyone in the world who isn’t a pubescent girl. His self-titled album is rich in self-assurance, panache and ability.
Citing artists Moby, M83 and Flying Lotus as key influences, the producer still manages to sound like all of the above, whilst carving out his own very strong sense of identity, and a chiselled quintessential sound.
The 15-track- long album is bursting with hip-hop percussion and spacey synths along with samples from the likes of Sam Cooke’s ‘I Can’t Turn You Loose’ on ‘Holdin On’ and bloggers favourite Chet Faker on ‘Left Alone’.
‘Sleepless’ - his stunning debut single is a low-fi gem, sounds a lot like witch house pioneer Grimes fused with elements of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. This track managed to clock up an astounding 1 million views on YouTube. ‘Insane’ is another of his most wondrous moments, mixing ghostly vocals with a thudding, multi tonal baseline.
What Flume has seemed to effortlessly master is the ability to expertly predict the popular music forecast – and in doing so, used it to his full advantage. His musical journey began at the tender age of 13 after winning music producing software on the back of a cereal box.
So from the most humble of beginnings to a literal worldwide buzz, (especially in America) there seems to be no stopping Flume, the new electronic music whizz kid.
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