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The resulting imagery is a fascinating counterpart to Flume's inventive sounds, from scenes of Flume following his own doppelganger across sand dunes or digging him out of oily earth, to the driver's eye view of a road that appears to loop into infinity as dinosaurs and police cars float overhead.

'We are on the same page with everything.

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Having done all the visuals for Skin - including album and single artwork, touring graphics, even stage design - Harley says extending his partnership with Zawada was a no-brainer. He designed the sleeve for Hi This Is Flume and created the accompanying visualiser, which was filmed in Western Australia over a couple of weeks. ' On reuniting with visual genius Jonathan ZawadaĪrguably the mixtape's biggest and most important collaborator is Jonathan Zawada. I basically just sampled her thing and crafted that beat. It’s this Elektron FM Synth and she’s just mastered it can just make the most absurd sounds from it, so effortlessly. She has this little box with knobs on it. Can you just play some of them? And I’m going to record everything’. 'I was just hanging out with her, SOPHIE, and said 'You’ve got the craziest sounds. 'When I played at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl with Vince Staples, Kučka, and SOPHIE, we hired out a studio because we had a couple of dates there.' The latter collaboration actually dates back to Flume's 2017 tour behind Skin. The leftfield Scottish producer appears twice on the mixtape: Firstly, Flume puts his spin on SOPHIE's 'Is It Cold In The Water?', then the pair cross-pollinate on ' Voices', with a topline from Flume regular Kučka. I’m trying to force myself to step away from the screen a bit and it’s been really productive.' He's in awe of SOPHIE's sounds 'It’s always more fun making stuff tactile, twisting knobs and fiddling with things is more human.

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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. 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. Watch for yourself or stream the new effort below.Guests, gear, and that car. Much of the extended clip follows the producer traveling on deserted roads and exploring the desert, with occasional cuts to empty highways and run-down gas stations. Zawada’s visual for Hi This Is Flume spans 42 minutes, pairing the mixtape with striking visuals that draw from the natural world and urban environments.

Eprom also co-created the album’s final song, “Spring”. Notably, Streten also drew from SOPHIE’s debut LP last year, Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides, teaming with Eprom for a remix of “Is It Cold In The Water?”. Kučka, who was featured on Flume’s 2017 release “Hyperreal”, reunites with the producer on “Voices” alongside Scottish DJ and singer-songwriter SOPHIE. Baltimore rapper JPEGMAFIA is featured on “How To Build A Relationship,” while slowthai spits verses on “High Beams,” which was co-produced with HWLS.

In addition to a dozen solo tracks, the new mix sports a handful of collaborations from a wide range of special guests. The Los Angeles-based musician accompanied the effort with a visualizer created by friend, visual artist, and fellow Aussie Jonathan Zawada. Australian producer Flume (aka Harley Streten) has dropped a new mixtape called Hi This Is Flume, marking his first collection of new music since his Grammy-winning 2016 LP Skin.

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