That definitely influenced the new stuff a lot.” So I did want to keep the next album at a certain high energy. “If I wrote chilled stuff, which I really like, I’d find it difficult to play it at a festival. “I do think about them and I don’t want to isolate them,” says Streten of the writing process. A sizeable one at that - beyond millions of listeners and his own sold-out shows, Flume has become a major draw at international festivals, including Reading, Leeds, Pukkelpop, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and a headliner slot at Rock En Seine in Paris to 40,000 fans. “It used to be just writing for myself but now there is an audience,” says Streten. With good reason - its creation mirrors the complex rush of sensations that came with Streten’s success. The 24-year old Australian producer’s wildly eclectic follow-up is a meticulously crafted, vivid universe of big emotions woven into a densely cinematic whole. “Shock” plays a significant role on Flume’s often-outrageous second album, Skin.

“I was just some quiet kid in high-school and all of a sudden I kind of got dropped into the deep end. “It was a crazy journey,” says Flume - aka Harley Streten - of his 2012 self-titled debut’s international success.

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