He flips his camera on briefly and his mid-chin length, bleach blonde hair is tousled loosely about his head. He’ll soon return to set to shoot a music video, but for the moment he’s still lounging in bed. When we catch up with Streten, he’s in Hobart getting his bearings. On other occasions, Flume’s creative director, Jonathan Zawada, stops by to discuss the visuals and thematic elements that will accompany his forthcoming album, ‘Palaces,’ due out on May 20th via the independent record label, Future Classic. It’s been very healing, especially after being away for so many years.” Some days it’s just Streten and his three-year-old Goldendoodle, Percy, tucked away in a quaint house on the East Coast, south of Queensland. But, I started growing my own vegetables and just living a wholesome existence. “I moved up to a part of Australia that I’d never lived in, and I kind of started a new life,” he explains with a sense of calm in his voice. There was just so much uncertainty.” Unsure of how California’s lockdown would play out, Streten took the same steps as many people did back in the spring of 2020: he packed up his suitcase and headed back to his homeland. “I was also worried about my parents getting sick or something. No one was vaccinated, there was panic, stores were empty, blah, blah, blah,” the accomplished producer trails off, communicating the exhaustion that comes with dwelling on those harrowing early pandemic days. It was just full on with the Covid and the Black Lives Matter protests. Though other circumstances in the world kick-started the hobby as well. With help from his mother, who is a horticulturist, he achieved his goal earlier than expected. Tilling the eight-acre plot in New South Wales is a relatively new project for the Grammy-winning artist, though it is one he’s aspired to tackle for ages. I think you call them peppers? Then there’s some pumpkin, kale, spinach, all the herbs,” says Streten, casually rolling off the contents of his garden, during an early-morning call with DJ Mag. Harley Edward Streten, on the other hand, prefers a little peace and quiet. That surprise album included features from Isabella Manfredi, Animal Collective's Panda Bear and experimental hip hop group Injury Reserve so our minds are racing to think who might pop up in this next instalment.Flume fills arenas, smashes stage props with sledgehammers, and builds booming soundscapes with the high-tech gear that fills his ever-expanding studio. The huge news follows his last release of archival bangers on Things Don't Always Go The Way You Plan, which he dropped in February. But yeah I'm putting another 10 out in a week or two or something." "I don't know if I'm supposed to tell you that. "We've been putting a bunch of them out, and we're going to put another 10 out really soon. "There were a bunch of songs that I always loved that just never fit on a record," he said. And he revealed there are even *more* never-before-heard tracks on the way. The Sydney-born producer jumped on triple j Breakfast with Pip Rasmussen on Wednesday to chat about his upcoming 10 Years Of Flume set at Splendour. He's just been locked in as one of the Splendour In The Grass 2023 headliners but prodigal son of bleep-bloop tunes Flume has let slip he's releasing more unheard music really soon.
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