Streten is keen to stress that he is grateful for the opportunities he’s had, but the catapult to fame at such a young age was isolating. The bounties of his career have been a double-edged sword. “It was, honestly, one of the best years of my life,” Streten says. He just went to the beach, hung out with his dog and learned to be on his own. The global shutdown of the music industry meant that for the first time, he had no deadlines to meet, no tours to jet off on. He was newly single, after spending much of his adult life in relationships. Burnt out on cities and keen to remove himself from the temptations of alcohol and drugs, he decided to start again in northern NSW instead of returning to his home town of Sydney. Photograph: Amy Sussman/Getty Images for CoachellaĪfter a four-year stint in Los Angeles, Streten returned to Australia at the start of the pandemic to be closer to his family. ‘I’ve never really been a performer but I had to do it’ … Streten performing at Coachella in April 2022. I just didn’t know what I’d missed out on until I did have this time.” I didn’t really get to live my 20s, and I never thought about it like that before. “But after being here for a year, I started to have friends and a community, and I realised, oh, that’s what that void was. “I felt like there was something missing in life,” the now 30-year-old tells Guardian Australia over lunch at a pub near his house, Percy curled at his feet. He was widely hailed as a preternatural talent who pioneered a lush, layered electronic sound that has been often imitated, but never bettered. His second album, Skin, won him a Grammy in 2017, going to No 1 on the Australian charts and No 8 in the US. He was just 21 when he swept the Aria Awards with his 2013 self-titled debut, arriving on the red carpet in a stiff suit that made him look more like a kid at his year 12 formal than a multi-platinum musician. Photograph: Natalie Grono/The Guardianīefore he bought this sprawling, secluded property in early 2020, Streten had been on the go for almost a decade straight. Shortly after, he was named by Fuse TV as one of the 30 “Must-See Acts” that would be performing at the SXSW festival that year.‘I felt like there was something missing in life’ … Streten at home. That same year, Flume announced the dates for his Australian tour, the “Infinity Prism Tour”. The album was later released in the United States in 2013 through Mom + Pop Music, and received praise throughout the country. In 2012, Flume released his debut self-titled album, which peaked at the #1 spot on the Australian iTunes charts and went double Platinum according to the Australian Recording Industry Association. The company liked him, and signed him to their label, through which Flume released his debut EP Sleepless. In 2011, he participated in a contest led by Future Classic, an Australian record company, for which he submitted the songs “Sleepless”, “Over You”, and “Paper Thin”. From then on, he began to produce house music under the name HEDS, his initials, and created the tracks “Flow” and “Fizz” independently. His introduction to producing music, specifically house music, came when he was a young teenager and opened a cereal box to find a production disc that allowed him to create simple mixes. Taking on the stage name Flume is Sydney, Australia, native Harley Edward Streten, who was born on November 5, 1991.
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