8/31/2023 0 Comments Flume album flume![]() The same can be said on an international level too, with artists including San Holo, ODESZA and Illenium building their sounds off Flume's sweeping breakdowns and glitching melodies. ![]() I'm not saying that artists like Peking Duk and Cosmo's Midnight wouldn't exist if it weren't for Flume, but his debut album popularised the synth-saturated sounds that each of these artists' built off early on in their careers, pushing these sounds to the forefront and allowing the masses to become accustomed to (and enjoy) this relatively new sound before these artists came in and swept up. Although Alison Wonderland's first major single Get Ready was more hip-hop than electronic, much of the work that followed – including her debut album Run – was an evolution of the crashing, synthy breakdowns which Flume explored early on. Early work by Wave Racer, Basenji and Cosmo's Midnight resembled a bubblier, more sample-saturated take of Flume's synthy sounds, while the early work from artists like L D R U and Peking Duk held a substantial similarity to Flume. While other artists were also pushing the early form of this sound – namely Rustie and his 2011 debut Glass Swords – Flume's debut was instrumental in the rise of some of Australian electronic's most-respected names today. On a local level, the album and stand-out singles such as Holdin On and On Top paved the way for a rise in trap, future-bass and other electronic genres built around these early hip-hop instrumentals, so much so that for a while there, 'Flume-step' was heavily used as an actual genre name. It charted on the ARIA charts for three years straight – eventually knocking Bruno Mars off the top in 2013, picked up a bunch of ARIA Awards and saw the producer go from a little name opening festival stages to an international drawcard. Released five years ago this week, Flume's self-titled debut completely changed the face of both Australian dance music and how the international market perceives our electronic music scene. Then, came Flume, and his self-titled, debut album. While all great and huge in Australia at the time, only a few ever managed to break into the international market and even then, most of this international fame came years after the single was initially released (a fair chunk of people overseas think Bag Raiders' Shooting Stars was actually released this year because #memes and Empire Of The Sun's US career only took off this year after Walking On A Dream was featured in a car commercial). Pre-2012, Australia's most popular dance acts at the time were mostly radio-friendly house-influenced names – Cut Copy, Bag Raiders, Empire Of The Sun, Architecture In Helsinki, Art Vs Science, Flight Facilities, PNAU and the likes.
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