I don't really write. I'm an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let's listen to it; let's vibe. And then I'll do a melody, and then we'll go back and do it.
When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period.
Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.
When I hear a beat that makes me want to tell a story, then that's what I'm going to say.
I focus all the way on the club. That's why my music sounds the way it does, with the 808, heavy kicks. Every aspect of it is about the club, so I don't really care about the person who's listening on an iPod.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.
Sometimes the music just has to tell the story without you trying to tell the story. It depends on the type of music you want to make. If it makes you feel good and party then you go with that. If it makes you feel like speaking on something real and doing a story then it's the beat just has to have the story.
I just like a beat that grabs me. And then I'll come up with a concept after. I like to take my time with music.
I've always liked the stuff that kicks.
My song 'Saved:' that's EDM-vibes with some L.A. vibes.
I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.
Music-wise, I like anything with a beat to it. With walkout songs, I pick something to keep me going and to rile me up.
It's not that what LCD Soundsystem and Juan MacLean do is necessarily simple, but they are basic loops and beats and songs that are just pleasurable in a really basic way.
My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.
Most popular records are action-packed to the last semi-quaver.
You can always hear me breathing during my verses, but that breathing becomes part of the music.
When I recorded 'Sun,' I wanted to do something with more of a modern sound. I've never done anything like it, and it was fun for me to sing, but I'm not really a dance person per se. However, I would love to hear that song in the club. I think it's a really good dance song.
Sometimes I need a boost, and I go for something that's a little bit more intense and a bigger beat.
I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
