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“The thing is, at the start, it’s really exciting and really incredible. ‘Tell Me,’ another massive collaboration with American artist RL Grime, followed not long after in 2014, landing the longtime friends at the tip-top of bass music’s mighty hierarchy. Right on the cusp of the North American EDM boom, their trap and moombahton-kissed flavours permeated festival fields, and their chill groove, ‘High You Are,’ which dropped via Skrillex’s Owsla label in 2013, became an instant hit.

The Australian imprint Sweat It Out! released their debut EP ‘Dollar Bill’ in November of that year, back when Flume was still a teenager. In 2011, he was a member of what was formerly the duo, What So Not, which he helmed alongside fellow producer Chris Emerson, known to many as his alias Emoh Instead. Streten recently turned 30 years old, but his career has seen more twists and triumphs than most will experience in a lifetime. “I got on a train and it just continued to speed up and up and up, and I guess I got used to a certain level of anxiety and stress, and didn’t even really realize where I was at.” But we swear he looks happier, too.“My entire twenties were taken up with this work,” he explains of the breakneck schedule that came before this fortuitous period.

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Suddenly we realise it’s been a full 10 years since the future bass prodigy dropped his self-titled debut album, spurring the creation of a sub-genre that would alter the pop landscape as we knew it.Īs such, the unfamiliar appearance may be nothing more than the product of maturity. The revamped hairdo is one striking attribute, but there’s something about his face that seems distinctly changed. We can’t help but notice how different the person peering back at us from our computer screen looks these days. He flips his camera on briefly and his mid-chin length, bleach blonde hair is tousled loosely about his head. He’ll soon return to set to shoot a music video, but for the moment he’s still lounging in bed. When we catch up with Streten, he’s in Hobart getting his bearings. On other occasions, Flume’s creative director, Jonathan Zawada, stops by to discuss the visuals and thematic elements that will accompany his forthcoming album, ‘Palaces,’ due out on May 20th via the independent record label, Future Classic. It’s been very healing, especially after being away for so many years.” Some days it’s just Streten and his three-year-old Goldendoodle, Percy, tucked away in a quaint house on the East Coast, south of Queensland. But, I started growing my own vegetables and just living a wholesome existence. “I moved up to a part of Australia that I’d never lived in, and I kind of started a new life,” he explains with a sense of calm in his voice. There was just so much uncertainty.” Unsure of how California’s lockdown would play out, Streten took the same steps as many people did back in the spring of 2020: he packed up his suitcase and headed back to his homeland. “I was also worried about my parents getting sick or something. No one was vaccinated, there was panic, stores were empty, blah, blah, blah,” the accomplished producer trails off, communicating the exhaustion that comes with dwelling on those harrowing early pandemic days. It was just full on with the Covid and the Black Lives Matter protests.

Though other circumstances in the world kick-started the hobby as well. With help from his mother, who is a horticulturist, he achieved his goal earlier than expected. Tilling the eight-acre plot in New South Wales is a relatively new project for the Grammy-winning artist, though it is one he’s aspired to tackle for ages. I think you call them peppers? Then there’s some pumpkin, kale, spinach, all the herbs,” says Streten, casually rolling off the contents of his garden, during an early-morning call with DJ Mag. Harley Edward Streten, on the other hand, prefers a little peace and quiet.

Flume fills arenas, smashes stage props with sledgehammers, and builds booming soundscapes with the high-tech gear that fills his ever-expanding studio.

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