Australian talents Flume and Chet Faker are set to release a collaborative EP due in the next few months.
The hugely successful 21-year-old Flume, also known as Harley Streten, spoke to The Music about the collaboration of two of Australia’s biggest upcoming acts.
“I’ve got an EP coming out with Chet Faker, that’s coming out in a few months,” said Flume. “I’m really, really psyched to get that out I think it’s really strong.”
“We went away for like a week and wrote some music and it turns out that we’re like an awesome duo,” he adds. “I mean, well, his strengths are all my weaknesses and vice versa so we kinda complement each other it’s a bit like a yin yang thing we’ve got going on.”
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The two started working together earlier in the year, shortly after Faker rose to prominence with his 2012 debut EP, Thinking In Textures, and a Beck’s Super Bowl ad.
“We went away for a week at the start of the year, down to the beach in Australia and just recorded a bunch of stuff,” said Faker in an May interview with Tone Deaf. “I don’t think we really had a plan, we just locked ourselves away and wrote a bunch of tracks. We haven’t even figured out yet whether it will be Flume and Chet Faker or a side project. I’m not really sure.”
Flume said the duo hit it off during their recording sessions, resulting in a new sound for both artists.
“(The) record doesn’t sound particularly like Flume or specifically like, you know, a Chet Faker record,” he continued. “It really is kinda like a hybrid of both sounds going to one. I feel like everything we did with that EP it was just totally everything was collaborative about the whole effort, and I think that shines through.”
The two collaborated on ‘Left Alone’ (below), featuring on Flume’s hugely successful self-titled debut album.
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