A production with lots of instruments battling for the listener’s attention can often lead to the listener losing the will to stay focussed. What can we learn from this? When we’re producing and mixing, often it’s better to use fewer sounds rather than adding layer upon layer to your mix. Just having these four elements makes it easy for the listener to stay engaged with the music. ‘Never Be Like You’ is dominated by just a few main elements the bass, drums, a synth, and the vocals. Keeping The Arrangement Simpleįlume makes the track easy to digest by keeping the arrangement (choice and number of instruments) minimal. Once the listener is pulled in, how does the track keep their focus? Read on to find out. Why? Because it’s so different and unique. When the listener hears the instantly recognizable high-pitched fastpaced “Never Be Like You” vocal, it grabs their attention. This creates an easy-to-digest foundation upon which the vocal can add more complex and unusual melodies.
For example, the chord progression is relentlessly simple: C, Dm, F, repeated all the way through. Why was ‘Never Be Like You’ so successful? How did it manage to get so many radio plays and still maintain it’s artistic credibility? The songwriting and production have a great balance of simplicity with novelty injected at the perfect points. We can then use these techniques to help guide our decisions to get great results in the studio. In this post, I’ll be decoding the mix of ‘Never Be Like You’ to see what we can learn from Flume’s approach to making music. 4 years later he released his second album ‘Skin’ which won the best Dance/Electronic album at the 2017 Grammy Awards. The lead single on this incredible album was ‘Never Be Like You’. Here’s Tom!įlume ascended to stardom at the age of 21 when his debut self-titled album topped the ARIA album charts and reached double-platinum. In this post, you’ll find some serious nuggets of engineering wisdom, as well as links to free trials for all the Mastering in the Mix plugins. Tom’s a weapon in the studio and he specializes in using his cutting-edge plugins to dissect and help you learn from anthem tracks.
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He created two tracks "Flow" and "Fizz", in addition to several remixes. In 2010, Streten began producing house music under his initials, HEDS. He began creating music at about the age of thirteen, with a basic production disc that was packaged in a box of cereal. Harley Edward Streten was born on 5 November 1991 and grew up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, where he still resides. The album and single provided Flume with four wins and four nominations at the ARIA Music Awards of 2013: Wins included Best Male Artist, Breakthrough Artist – Release, Best Dance Release, and Producer of the Year. Its lead single, "Holdin On", reached the top 20 on the related ARIA Singles Chart and No. His debut self-titled album was released on 9 November 2012, which peaked at No. Harley Edward Streten (born 5 November 1991), better known by his stage name Flume, is an Australian electronic music instrumentalist, producer and DJ.