![]() ![]() Similar story with Kučka's involvement in the track. I was really happy, I love the tone of his voice. a few weeks later he sent back new verses for it. in September, and that's when I showed him the beat. Vince and I got to meet in person for the first time in L.A. Flume said, "It wasn't originally intended to have rap on it. Background įlume explained that he had started work on this song in the back of a van on the way to Las Vegas in mid-2015. The track is taken from Flume's second studio album, Skin. It made its debut on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show and was released on 29 January 2016, by Future Classic. It features vocals from American rapper Vince Staples and Australian singer Kučka. The way Is it Cold in the Water chops up and rudely deconstructs a simple lullaby,ĭreamtime sets in montion a whirlwind of mildly distorted electronics coupled with ethereal female humming." Smoke & Retribution" is a song by Australian DJ and record producer Flume. One can salvage the metallic synth melody of Jewel, The mixtape Hi This Is Flume (2019) suffered from the same disease: The rap songs Lose It (Vic Mensa), Smoke & Retribution (Vince Staples), and You Know (Raekwon) are also the worst.ĭespite the fact that Skin had plenty of fluff, Flume released alsoĪ Skin Companion EP I, recorded from the same sessions that yielded Skin, containing more fluff. The instrumentals are largely pointless, and The mellow pitch-shifted chant of Kucka (Australian producer Laura-Jane Lowther)įrom a chaotic, abrasive soundscape worthy of (Aluna Francis is the singer but one hardly notices her),Īnd Numb & Getting Colder, which extracts Six-minute Innocence, possibly the baroque peak of his arrangements This time flume rarely challenges the listener. The inferior Say It, which sounds like Kate Bush gone hip-hop Īnd the stately litany Tiny Cities sung by Beck over a wavering electronic tapestry. Number sung by Canadian contralto Kai (Alessia De Gasperis-Brigante) Hence the his biggest hit Never Be Like You, a straightforward dance-pop Same techniques in a more cohesive manner and emphasized the melodies. Skin (Future Classic, 2016) was a more commercial effort that used the Which became the first hit of future bass and created the genre's standard, aįlume was also half of the duo What So Not with Australian producer Christopher "Emoh Instead" Emerson, whose electro-house song High You Are, off their EP The Quaker (2013), was remixed by New York producer Sam "Branchez" Kopelman to become a classic of future bass. ![]() The came the three-song EP Lockjaw (2013)ĭrop the Game What About Us This Song Is Not About a Girlįlume's remix of British duo Disclosure's You & Me (2013), The last four or five could have been trimmed out. Unfortunately, the songs get less and less interesting towards the end. Sensual female vocals (Moon Holiday) intone a poppy melody over a Stay Close is a duet between a male voice and a "chipmunk" voice over dejected synth lines Holdin On (the "future bass" prototype) weds gospel-soul fervor and dramatic keyboard stabs Īgainst a distorted organ and a dense beat Space Cadet fails to bridge neosoul and rap,Īnd the languid ballad Left Alone sounds trivial,Īndroid wonky beat, African chants and monster synth distortion, is emblematic Sleepless, with the most surreal effect of chopped-up vocals (Jezzabell Doran's vocals) Īnd the instrumental Ezra, in which the synth acts like a jazz trumpet. The "calm" songs include Sintra, that chops up both the vocals and the beat He operated at the border of house music, hip hop and pop on his debut album Flume (2012) and relied massively on the method of chopping the vocals ( Copyright © 2019 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of Use)įlume, the project of Australian producer and dj Harley Edward Streten (1991), Flume: biography, discography, review, best albums, ratings ![]()
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