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harley edward streten aka flume on stage at coachella april 2016
Harley Edward Streten AKA Flume: he covers the musical waterfront. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella
Harley Edward Streten AKA Flume: he covers the musical waterfront. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella

Flume: Skin review – guest-heavy dance with broad horizons

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“Oh, great! Just what the world has been waiting for,” runs the cynical first response to this collaboration-heavy Australian dance package, “Disclosure from Down Under”. But while the multimillion Vevo views of F word-garnished electro power ballad Never Be Like You featuring Kai suggest the advent of a trance Eamon, Flume (the aqueous altar ego of Sydney bedroom boffin Harley Edward Streten) actually covers a wider musical waterfront than he needs to. Distinguished guests – UK nearly siren AlunaGeorge, rapper Vince Staples – are ushered respectfully through a series of viable electronic hinterlands, where a couple of them, notably perennial cameo supplier Little Dragon and Wu Tang vet Raekwon, manage to put down roots in actual songs.

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