

I love to hear that your mum is a horticulturalist. How can you get more inspiring than that?ĥ. Beautiful woman on the car talking about waxing products. There was a car wash one, some waxing brand. There was a hair lice commercial, a retirement village commercial. Do you remember any of those ads that ran? Often, actually, it got accepted, and I was able to make a few hundred dollars - which was amazing as a 14-year-old.Ĥ. He’d hand me some of these ads, I would have a crack at it and see what I could do. I was probably 13 or 14, and I had an interest in doing music and was always messing around on the computer, downloading torrented software, things I couldn’t afford. Sometimes he’d have clients who wouldn’t like the library music they were offering for some of the small ads, so he’d hand me the video like, “Can you make something for this?” My dad was particularly supportive of it.
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My dad, he actually owned a production company making TV ads. My mom was a horticulturist, so she would teach us about plants and plant life. What did your folks do for a living when you were growing up? What do they think of your job now? Where I grew up, there wasn’t really much of a scene of electronic stuff, so I got most of my influence from the Internet.ģ. Then I’d go on blogs, and then SoundCloud happened.
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As a kid, I used to just go on Napster or Kazaa or whatever, and download music. I think what shaped me and my music is the Internet being able to access the world of music at my fingertips. How do you feel growing up in Sydney shaped who you are as a person and artist? He’s one of my friends that is really into it, and we go nerd out, record some stuff and hopefully something good happens.Ģ. We’ve got modular synths, the ones that look really crazy and you got to plug the stuff in. I’m about to go in and do a session with my friend Charlie. I live in Byron, which is two hours south, but my mom is up here, and I’m in Australia for a second so I thought I’d come see her. We Zoomed with Streten - who was parked in his car with his dog Percy - to hear more about this new look, the inspiration behind his mind-bending album, the local ads he used to score as a kid and more. (You may have noticed some strange company logos adorning his red biker jacket. Chief among the album’s visual storylines is the new motorbike rider character that Flume transformed into for his big mainstage Coachella performance earlier this year. Troye Sivan Sets Release Date For Third Studio Album, 'Something to Give Each Other'įlume’s first LP since 2016’s Skin, Palaces is once again paired with vibrant imagery from Streten’s friend and longtime collaborator Jonathan Zawada.
