Paging Future Classic, if your A&R guys are on the lookout for the next Flume, we may have just found him in the most unlikeliest of places. His name is Richard Blomfield, he’s a professional nurse, and he knows how to make a banger.
As ABC News reports, Blomfield, an English expat, lives in the far-western Queensland town of Bedourie where he works at one of Australia’s most remote medical clinics. But the unlikely producer has dreams of EDM superstardom.
“For most of my life I’ve been playing around with music,” he said. “I’ve been blessed to be born into a slightly musical family, and I’ve enjoyed doing my own projects over the years — either on my own or with other people.”
He’s not slack, either. Since arriving in Bedourie less than a year ago, he’s completed three self-produced and self-released albums. “It’s very easy to self-publish an album these days,” he said.
“I felt I had no excuse after all these years not to put some compilation of work on the internet for sale, as a kind of brief embodiment of my work and thinking at this point in time.” After all, there’s not much else to do in the small regional town.
“It’s just a natural extension to do what I can do out here in this remote environment,” he said. “There aren’t too many musical instruments in sight, so the computer has turned out to be quite a useful medium by which to make music.”
“In a sense it’s given me the inner peace that I need to come forward with new original work,” Richard said of his new home. “Bedourie and this whole area, especially Bedourie, has been the key to my work of late.”
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So what do his productions sound like? Well, you can check ’em out for yourself in the playlist below or over on YouTube where Richard has helpfully uploaded his discography. There’s definite shades of early Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method in there.
“In terms of ambitions… I’m just going to stay in the creative flow of things and hopefully it’ll open up some doors and opportunities,” Richard said. “Maybe to do some work with others, I’d like to offer myself as a support act for rock bands going around the world.
“I don’t want to leave this job I’m in here and I do love it, [but] I think there would be a place to have a bit of alternation now and then. It would be good for both worlds.”
(Photo: Ash Moore / ABC News)
