Quotes by Flume - Page 3

To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really intimate and personal; it's living, organic. That's how I want the music to sound; I want it to feel alien and strange, but also like it's got a heartbeat, like it's got a soul, like it's not made by a robot.
Flume / Music Producer
Heartbeat
Intimate
Soul
Strange
Music Soul Me
Weird
Living
Music Me Weird
Alien
Skin
Organic
Personal
Robot
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I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
Flume / Music Producer
Dad
Able
Cereal
Computer
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Nine
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Promotion
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Shopping
Simple
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Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taught me it. It's been useful. Now I use it for a bunch of different situations, whether I'm stressing before a show or something in the day really pisses me off.
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Powerful
Stress
Writing
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My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.
Flume / Music Producer
Dance
Bunch
Chilled
Crazy
Flying
Influence
Movement
Strong
Trance
Come
Artists
French
Early
Electronica
Experimental
Still
Round
Hip
Hop
Inspirations
Lotus
Main
Moby
Super
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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.
Flume / Music Producer
Hook
Melody
Progression
Chord
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What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.
Flume / Music Producer
Blank
Instrument
There And Then
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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 / Music Producer
Stay True
Success Your Will
Commercial
Poisons
Smash
Triple
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
Flume / Music Producer
Australian
Favourite
Love Work Music
Love Work Great
Same Stuff
Similar
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There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones. I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music. I think that's happening. With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.
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Creative
Djs
Industry
Nice
Producers
Spotify
Artists
Music Always Culture
Be Nice
Biggest
Discover
Happening
Necessarily
Otherwise
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I could do another tour, make a record that's very similar, do similar venues. Or I could make a different record, do different venues, and grow. It's exciting to take it to new places, but it's never been my intent to be the biggest thing in the world. That's not what my drive is. I want to make what I want to make, and make a living off it.
Flume / Music Producer
New Places
Venues
Living
Drive
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Off
Intent
Record
Places
Similar
Tour
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I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.
Flume / Music Producer
Design
Bunch
Fun
Fun Stuff
Guy
Next
Reality
Stuff
Thinking
Virtual Reality
Art Work Design
Weird
Album
Did
Bit
Tap
Work Art Design
Record
Jonathan
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Virtual
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real. It was like a psychological battle to be creative. I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
Flume / Music Producer
Asking
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Fun
Living Proof
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Proof
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Successful
Used
Job
Living
Always People Fun
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Record
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It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.
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Nice
Song
Unique
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