Flume (musician)

Harley Edward Streten (born 5 November 1991), known professionally as Flume, is an Australian musician, DJ, and record producer.

Flume has remixed songs from such artists as Lorde, Sam Smith, Arcade Fire, Hermitude and Disclosure.

[7] His father, Glen Streten, is a filmmaker and record producer, and his mother, Lyndall, is a horticulturist and former teacher.

[11][12][13] At the age of 11, he began composing music by using a basic, CD mixing and DJ program packaged in a box of Kelloggs' Nutrigrain.

[16] Flume had his first radio play with the song "Possum", which had been uploaded to Triple J Unearthed, and was signed in 2011 through an original artists competition managed by the Australian record company Future Classic.

Nathan McLay, founder of Future Classic and now Flume's manager, assisted with the release of his first EP, titled Sleepless, which contained the three original tracks.

[22] The album's production saw Flume collaborating with vocal artists Moon Holiday, Jezzabell Doran, Chet Faker, and New York rapper T-shirt.

[23] In December 2012, Flume signed with Mom + Pop Music and announced the North American release of his self-titled debut studio album.

[24] The album was released in the US on 21 February 2013 and received strong support from American critics, averaging a score of 73 out of 100 on review aggregate site Metacritic.

[32][33] Flume spent the beginning of 2014 touring internationally, including stops at Lollapalooza in South America and Coachella where he debuted his remix of Lorde's "Tennis Court".

In 2015, Flume released his first original track since his debut studio album, "Some Minds", featuring vocals from Miike Snow's Andrew Wyatt.

On 21 February 2015, Streten announced that he had left the project, saying: "Emoh and I have been moving in different directions creatively, we haven't made any music together in quite a while.

The following month, the lead single, "Never Be Like You", featuring vocals from Canadian singer Kai, reached number one in Australia, making it Flume's first chart-topping song.

[35] In April, Flume released his second official single, "Say It", featuring the Swedish singer and songwriter Tove Lo.

Later in May 2016, the track list for the album was unveiled, revealing that Vic Mensa, Allan Kingdom, Raekwon, Little Dragon, AlunaGeorge, MNDR and Beck were among the other collaborators to be featured on Skin.

Flume contributed productions for Lorde and Vince Staples' albums Melodrama and Big Fish Theory respectively.

Hi This Is Flume consists of 17 songs, featuring collaborations with Kučka, Eprom, JPEGMafia, Sophie, HWLS and Slowthai.

[47] It is 34 minutes long and consists of ten previously unreleased songs dating from 2012 to 2021, and features collaborations with Injury Reserve, Isabella Manfredi and Panda Bear.

[50] It is 37 minutes long and consists of another ten previously unreleased songs, dating from 2015 to 2021, and features collaborations with Jim-E Stack and Emile Haynie.

Although quickly removed from the platform, the post was circulated widely on social media and shared by a range of news outlets.

The Environmental Music Prize is a quest to find a theme song to inspire action on climate and conservation.

Flume at ARIA Awards 2013
Flume at ARIA Awards 2013