The Australian electronica star thought he was making strange downtempo tunes to listen to – but now they’re making people dance the world over
It’s an article of faith that dance music has swept America, but the fact that young Australia also now rocks to synthesizers rather than guitars has been less remarked upon. The leading light of the Australian electronic music scene is Flume, a 23-year-old from Sydney’s north shore called Harley Streten, whose self-titled debut album was released at the end of 2012 and whose lush, downtempo but surging electronica became the signature sound of his homeland the following year, particularly his first anthem Holdin On.
Two years on, Streten has toured the world his trademark light-up prism (he now has two: the second one fits into two suitcases), while he’s remixed the likes of Arcade Fire, Sam Smith and Lorde. America is now his second-biggest market after Australia, and he’s considering a temporary relocation to LA as he works on his second album. “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,” he says, munching poached eggs in the lobby of New York’s chic Standard Hotel.
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