Flume sleepless sample2/21/2024 ![]() ![]() I like your own shows because you can have a bit more fun and extend your set, you can go a bit over if you want because it’s your show. ![]() Whereas at the festivals, you’re one of many acts on a bill so I find it’s less pressure. I haven’t really been to New Zealand in the last little while, so I’m just quite actually surprised at the response it’s gotten from the shows and stuff.ĬDM: What's it been like going on your first headlining 'Infinity Prism Tour', as opposed to playing festivals and after-parties?įLUME: When it’s your own thing there’s a lot more pressure to make it awesome, since these people bought tickets specifically for you. Now, it’s a lot different now, we’ve got a full show and everything. I’ve done the Laneway festival and I did Rhythm and Vines, but that was quite early on in the Flume thing. That was me.ĬDM: You're returning to New Zealand this October, are you looking forward to coming back?įLUME: Yeah I feel like New Zealand’s a bit of an unchartered territory for me in a way. We actually drove around and caught a boat which moored behind the stage and then you’d go play, then when I finished I jumped back on the boat and it was nighttime, and then we cruised back.ĬDM: And then a crazy girl attacked you with a lolly lei. It was a little stage set-up, but probably my favourite memory was the fact that I had to catch a boat to get to the stage because it backed onto the water. I don’t want to spoon-feed them what I know they’ll like."ĬDM: Last time I saw you it was at Laneway in New Zealand! Do you have any favourite New Zealand memories from that visit?įLUME - HARLEY STRETEN: Ah, that was actually a fun little show! That was the first ever Laneway that I’d actually played, it was cool. a lot of people who don’t listen to that kind of music starting listening to it and it converted a bunch of people and opened up what they thought about electronic music and made them try something new - I want to try and do that again. Yes, this is that interview during which a Flume/Lorde collaboration was born. a suburb in Sydney's Northern Beaches - kindly cut short a recent sleep-in, to talk to Coup De Main about Flume's upcoming return to New Zealand via his 'Infinity Prism Tour', the importance of maintaining musical integrity and his past-life as a champion Pokémon Master. Twenty-one-year-old Streten boasts a Number One album in his homeland, Australia - that was certified platinum within five weeks - and has headlined every Australasian music festival known to humankind, all in the space of two Summers. and as they say, the rest is Flume - inspired by the Bon Iver song of the same name - history.įlume fans - Flumies? - you ought to address your thanks to a little application called 'Andrew G's Music Maker'. When Streten was thirteen-years-old, a chance encounter at his local supermarket spotting a box of Nutri-Grain cereal with a music production programme inside, kickstarted his love for sample packs, plug-ins and vintage analogue hardware. surfing, Wolverine and his dog, Sam - but his other dog, Scruffy, not so much. Harley Streten likes burgers for breakfast, ranch dressing and Froot Loops.
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