#Flume skin skin

So it’s this challenge of me wanting to just be comfortable and live a life, but then also to make the art, I have to push myself out of my comfort zone, which often ends up with me just traveling by myself to places. When I get really comfortable, I’m not very inspired. Travel inspires me-getting out of my head, going to different places. Flume performs at the Creamfields festival on Dec. To be able to see inside of it, and see all the different sections, gave me a different perspective on it. I’d always been a big music fan from a young age, but I didn’t really understand how it worked. I installed it, and basically saw music in layers for the first time. I thought that sounded cool, so I got him to get it. It was a CD with a simple music-making program. I was shopping with my dad and there was a cereal that had a promotion on it. And that’s in new music, and it’s mostly electronic. Looking back is great, but what I really find exciting is people pushing forward.

Musically do you have a decade you feel that you should’ve been born in? Definitely when I’m playing more EDM festivals, it can be a challenge for me. From some more poppy stuff to some more weird and dark spaces-I wanted to have both ends of the spectrum. I also wanted to make something that had a broader spectrum of sounds. I was like an old-school producer, where they get in the studio, they make the people feel comfortable, and create the vibe. Most of it was done remotely on the first album, whereas with this one I actually got in the studio and worked with people. A lot of that was by collaborating with others, which I had done in the past but not to this extent. What did you want to achieve in this album that was different from your first? Your second album, Skin, won a Grammy in February for the Best Electronic/Dance album.

#Flume skin skin

It’s easy to look askance at his festival megastardom and Flume definitely has his poppy hits, but Skin is far too cosmic for him to be pigeonholed with likes of David Guetta and Calvin Harris.įlume doesn’t love attention, but he sat down with TIME anyway before his Hong Kong show. But with its porous genealogy, “electronic” is a nebulous term, especially for Flume’s experimental music. Stacked with two multi-platinum singles, the record won the 2017 Grammy for Best Electronic/Dance Album. He is currently venturing through Asia for the first time to showcase his sophomore album, Skin. His self-titled first album and singles-notably, “Holdin’ On,” Disclosure’s “You & Me (Flume Remix),” Lorde’s “Tennis Court” (Flume Remix), and “Drop the Game” with Chet Faker-are ubiquitous on Billboard and Spotify. Since 2012, Flume-DJ moniker for 26-year-old Harley Streten-has enraptured millions. On Saturday night, Flume made his debut performance in Hong Kong. The stage brightens, the bar line empties, flags return to the air-all bracing for “Say It,” his platinum hit, to drop. The speakers start to quake with “Free,” drawing the glittered crowd tight into the handrail. In his trademark all-white performance garb, the Australian DJ, musician and producer lunges up the two-tier stage of Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo to be greeted by 6,000 Creamfields music festival-goers. One last gulp, and Flume sets his plastic champagne flute on the stairwell backstage.