![]() I mean, that's not such a bad thing, I don't care about the fact that it's commercial, but when something gets commercialised, it gets. What killed it for you? It got commercial. You said somewhere just recently that you used to be big into techno, house and trance, until that music essentially died for you in 2008 or 2009. So it really puts me in the power seat, and I can play instruments, I can play keyboard parts. I have the option to make the build-up extra long, or if it's not working so well, I can shorten things. I can take it to places that I couldn't otherwise. is a lot more fun and it flows a lot better and I've got, I suppose, more control than in a DJ set. Look, I've got, like, a drum pad now, and I've got different versions, live versions, of the songs that I'll play out. Trying to mix my tracks is quite a challenge. Aside from the Infinity Prism, how does a Flume live show differ from a Flume DJ set, from a spectator's point of view? Well, first of all, I'm pretty bad at mixing. What I do is not so visually stimulating, so having a really unique light show, something really special, that was the path we wanted to take. What we really wanted was that performance aspect. We were looking at stuff like Amon Tobin's crazy projections, but I guess they were an inspiration, too. It's kind of the next stage, I feel.ĭaft Punk kind of set the standard for light shows back in 2007, was that an inspiration for this? I guess they started it all. I still have the freedom to change songs up as I want, and the visuals will still work with the audio and react the right way. Every song has its own visual that's audio reactive, they work with the music. What they've done is they've actually made visuals from scratch for each particular song. ![]() We came to them and they came up with a bunch of different concepts,and we figured out the one which would work best and that we could actually achieve. They did the Parklife video where the people are wearing the Chewbacca costumes, they've done a whole bunch of promo videos. They're based out of Redfern and they just do random shit. You're bringing the Infinity Prism on tour with you where did this thing come from? Whose baby is it? It was these two guys, Toby and Pete. Your Australian tour is obviously going to attract a pretty broad range of people. But the way it's changed now, it's not like that anymore. They knew everything I'd done, they were music heads. That's what it was like in Australia when I played six months ago. Was that weird at first, when you'd play the tracks that are bigger here and didn't get a bigger response? Well, it wasn't that the big ones didn't get a bigger response, it's just that the smaller ones got a bigger response as well. ![]() The songs that don't have as many plays, the not-so-big songs, still get really big reactions from these kids who are super into music and come to the shows, rather than the average punter in Australia. Whereas overseas, I felt like I was playing to an Australian audience six months ago. Some of the smaller ones don't get as huge a reaction. Now that you've spent more time there, did you notice any major differences between American audiences and Australian audiences? I guess the big difference I did notice was that here in Australia where it's become more of a commercial thing, a bigger thing, you obviously get big reactions for the big songs. I played in New York and LA, but that's it. Was this the first time you'd played in America? I went over there last year in October for a small music conference called CMJ. I started off at South by Southwest, then worked my way to WMC, then all through North America and Canada for a month. You've just come back from a massive American tour. We caught up with the superstar producer to talk about "fucking up" One Direction and Justin Bieber, his next record, and how you can get your track a Flume remix. He claimed four spots in triple j's Hottest 100 (including the highest local placement), he's selling out a massive national tour, and his self-titled debut album soared to the top of the Australian charts. Now it's impossible to imagine our musical landscape without him. 18 months ago, you had no idea who Flume was. ![]()
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