The tape’s drums sound more industrial and metallic than they may in the past – a signature of SOPHIE’s sound. This reference to his favourite artists permeate far beyond their allocated songs – you’d have been forgiven for thinking that this was a Flume x SOPHIE collaborative mixtape. Hi This Is Flume is a mixtape that in some ways feels like a homage to his favourite artists – artists that we can only presume have helped shape the sound of the highly anticipated third album, which you would expect will be released this year, after he spent 2018 recording with artists like Damon Albarn, Nile Rodgers and many others. It’s 38 minutes of music, with a visualiser created by Jonathan Zawada. I made a mixtape with some of my favorite artists. Not one to make a fuss (after all, he did grow up near the beach), the mixtape announcement, in the form of a tweet, reads “Hi This Is Flume. It’s no surprise, then, that his follow-up would be highly anticipated. Flume has proven time and time again he is a champion of unheralded artists (his 2016 Splendour in the Grass set put artists like REMI, Baro, Vera Blue and Jess Kent on one of the most sought-after stages in Australia) and he has a knack for picking the next big thing – or making it happen himself.
The Sydney producer has been missing for a couple of years, ever since releasing the companion EPs to 2016’s Skin, his second album – and a world away from 2012’s self-titled album, which established the Australian as a pioneer of future bass, and would lay the groundwork for a mini-generation of Australian producers, as well as put Australian electronic music on the world map.
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The installation runs through Sunday 14 August 2016 at Urban Outfitters’ concept space Space15Twenty in Hollywood.Flume knows how to make an understated entrance. Zawada’s brightly colored artwork has been printed onto tactile fabric, and there are also new video works on view. Offering another way to experience this audiovisual collaboration is a pop-up installation coinciding with Flume’s shows in Los Angeles this weekend (he’s performing four nights in a row at Shrine Auditorium kicking things off yesterday with SOPHIE). Flume’s elastic beats and bass are surprisingly as tender as they are grandiose, creating a niche for the music producer in the EDM world, and the artwork complements them successfully.
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The tracks and cover of 24-year-old’s recent album Skin (featuring guest spots from Beck, Tove Lo, Little Dragon, AlunaGeorge, Vince Staples and more) are visually represented by Zawada’s CGI-like flora.
One of the greatest examples of this collaboration is Zawada’s work with fellow Aussie, Flume (notable tracks include “Drop the Game” with Chet Faker, and his remixes of Disclosure and Lorde). (Fun fact: Zawada used to be the creative director at Sydney-based label Modular Recordings.) While conceiving an imagined new universe ruled by each musician, Zawada seamlessly weaves the digital and analog to develop visuals that really synergize the music-rather than feel like his own work, simply tacked on. The Perth, Australia-raised (now LA-based) multimedia artist has been regularly commissioned to create album covers for largely electronic music acts like Classixx, Rustie, Baauer and The Presets. The artwork of Jonathan Zawada lives on your computer hard drive and-if you still buy CDs-on your bookshelf, too.
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