One of Australia’s leading talents of electronic-based music, Harley Streten, who y’all may recognise under the performing moniker Flume, has made some interesting comments in a recent eye-brow raising interview.
Despite the fact that he is booked as a headlining artist at dance music festivals around the globe, Streten told The Guardian, “I don’t think I make dance music” – hold on a minute, what?
He explained this rather outrageous quote further, “It’s not even 4/4. And it’s slow. When it first started happening and I saw people dancing to it I was like, what the fuck? The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to,” believing it was “for iPod listening on the bus or in the car or at home.”
Streten then tried to shake the label of an EDM artist, suggesting that his music teeters “on the edge of that”, and what he produces is “just the new kind of pop I guess. I feel a lot of it doesn’t have a lot of soul, but it gets the kids moving – it does the job.”
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The 23 year-old said that he found rock music a little limited, “The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
“It’s very stuck whereas with electronic music new sounds are being created. Imagine a Skrillex bassline 20 years ago – no-one would have been able to fathom what that sounded like. 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.”
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It’s not that surprising that Streten would make such comments against rock, he’s been a huge fan of electronic-based music since his teen years, and is continually pushing his own creative boundaries with technology and his productions.
Whether you’re a big fan of Flume’s tunes chilling out at home or raging at a club or festival, we’ve got great news – the producer dropped a brand new tune a couple of weeks back which you can listen to here.
