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"It’s always more fun making stuff tactile, twisting knobs and fiddling with things is more human. Where Harley used to enjoy toying with "in-the-box" software on his laptop, lately he's been messing with hardware, like the Roland TR-8 drum machine and the new Prophet X sampler/synthesizer. "Every time he comes around, we just mess around on all the hardware for an hour and just record everything, chop it up." JPEGMAFIA also enjoys geeking out with Flume over the new tech filling up the Aussie producer's L.A. Speaking to triple j on the eve of releasing new single 'Friends', we picked Harley's brain about the mixtape's cast of collaborators. He's probably also giving a bunch of listeners their first taste of Slowthai, JPEGMAFIA, Eprom, and SOPHIE. "I hope it opens up people to more left-field electronic music," says Harley Streten, aka Flume. It's a decidedly weirder, more experimental turn that might blow the minds of casual fans, bridging the gap between populist bangers and the stranger, electronic fringes that inspire Flume - artists like Flying Lotus, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Arca.
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Released with only 24hrs notice and busting a two-year music drought, Flume's surprise mixtape Hi This Is Flume is 38 minutes of mind-warping beats and creative collaborations that sounds like one of Australia's most celebrated producers carving out his post- Skin career path in real-time.įrom its lack of radio-friendly singles, to the spontaneous shifts in sound and bizarre song titles that have become memes, the mixtape doesn't seem destined to win ARIAs and Grammys like his Hottest 100 dominating second album did.