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" I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success. "

Flume

You

Doing

Trying

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Perfection

Imperfection

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" It's always the first 10,000 SoundCloud listens; that was definitely a big moment, seeing the online stuff grow and crowds grow. "

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" I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing. "

Flume

Daydream

Always

" Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make. "

" I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from. "

" I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement. "

Flume

Myself

Grandiose

" To me it's all about textures, and that's the side of music that I'm finding really exciting. I feel like it's one of the only parts of music that mankind hasn't fully discovered yet. "

" A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element. "

" I wanna make weird stuff. "

" I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online. "

" I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff. "

Flume

Stuff

Really

" I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music. "

" In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home. "

" Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit. "

" For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started. "

Flume

Music

Flying

" I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones. "

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" I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person. "

Flume

Morning

Person

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" Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first. "

Flume

First

Melodies

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" I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music. "