The beat scene, Low-End Theory - all that shit. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do. It’s got an amazing harbor, the weather is awesome, the climate’s great. Sydney has so much natural beauty it’s just a beautiful city. Some people might throw around a lot of comparisons, but it’s got a completely different feel, I think. How does Los Angeles compare to Sydney? Oh, it’s completely different. It hasn’t really been a huge issue yet, I guess. ![]() But once they know my name they call me Harley. Have people started to call you “Flume” yet? Well, if they don’t know my name they’ll call me “Flume,” especially at the shows. ![]() Then I actually went down and saw that it was the fifth and the second street, or whatever. ![]() Like, someone would say, “We’re on the corner of 22nd and 101st,” and I didn’t know what that meant. And I actually finally understood what they mean by “uptown” or “downtown.” I had heard it a gajillion times - in Seinfeld or whatever - but I never actually knew what they were or what that meant. I had never been to a place where there was so many people living on top of each other in such a small vicinity. It was crazy seeing how densely populated it was. Were any spots in the US particularly memorable? New York. Australia is like halfway between the two, maybe. We get so much TV from the US and the UK. How has your time in the United been? Is our accent difficult to understand at all? The accent is never much of a problem over in the US or in the UK because we’re so used to it. I wanted to get her something, like buy her something to say thank you, but I didn’t know what to get her. ![]() I had met this girl once and we ended up hanging out the whole week.Īre you going to write her a song? I talked to A$AP Ferg last week and he apparently just released a song about someone he met in Trinidad. Can you teach me?” and she was like “Yeah!” So I went over to Thailand and stayed with her for a week. I was on Facebook, and I saw that she was in Thailand doing some teaching and living there, so I messaged her and said, “Hey, I see you’re in Thailand. Some pictures of you scuba diving recently appeared on Facebook? Are you an avid scuba diver? Well, I had some time off, so I was like “Fuck it, I’m gonna learn how to scuba dive.” I had met this girl - this beautiful Norwegian marine biologist dive master - when I was on tour. For Streten, Flume is something that’s happened to him, rather than a persona that he’s grown into, a subject he discussed with us last week. Still, it’s hard to shake the feeling that his name is one we’ll be hearing for a long time, and that’s not just because of Flume’s uncanny ability to mesh song-based electronic pop with hard-edged dance beats, either. Being largely responsible for a musical and cultural resurgence isn’t easy, as Streten made clear during our recent interview. Twenty-two-year-old Sydney native Harley Edward Streten isn’t quite used to the prospect of being Flume, even though his set at Coachella this past weekend brought a crowd too large to accommodate the massive Gobi Tent he was performing in.
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