Flume Quotes

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.

My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

I listen to 'deep dish house'.

I embraced EDM from the beginning.

I'm into a lot of music, definitely a lot of rap. 'Dedication 4', the Lil' Wayne album. Actually, I've been getting into some Swedish house music; the beat just keeps me going a little bit.

I love mixing house and disco with anything bass.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.

I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.

I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.