Industrial Strength: Inside Track – Sept 19, 2013

Future Classic preps deluxe edition Flume record 

Future Classic has a 4-disc deluxe edition of Flume’s #1 debut album out on November 8. It includes the album, a second audio disc with a mixtape with guest vocalists and new remixes, and a DVD of a full length concert filmed at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on the recent sell-out Infinity Prism tour. The Producer Disc is a look inside Flume’s creative process and a beginner’s guide to becoming a producer. It features Ableton Live 9 Lite (Flume’s music production software), stems to three Flume tracks (Holdin On, Insane, On Top), and more sounds and samples from Ableton. Meanwhile he makes his New Zealand headline debut in October, with five shows selling 11,000 tickets already. He then heads to UK to join Disclosure on their sell-out run.

Rising overseas sales for Tame Impala 

Tame Impala continue to attack the overseas markets. While the Lonerism album streaks towards platinum in Australia, it has gone gold in Europe (sales of 80,000) and silver in the UK (60,000) where it debuted at #14. In the US, where it had come in at #34, it won Record of the Year at the inaugural Record Store Day Adapter Prize and placed in US Rolling Stone’s Greatest Live Acts In The World list. Lonerism has sold 285,000 copies worldwide.

The Models to unveil new songs live 

The Sean Kelly, Andrew Duffield, Barton Price and Mark Ferrie lineup of The Models has been working on new recordings in Duffield’s studio in South Melbourne and a host of re-releases. The band plays two shows at Melbourne’s Ding Dong Lounge this Friday and Saturday, where some of the new material could well surface live. “With several new works still in progress, it’s almost a case of the ’match-fitness’ ie. readiness, and ’horses for courses’ – what we think will work on the night,” said Kelly. “Two, or three perhaps?” The new material “sounds more like a sequel to Cut Lunch or The Pleasure of Your Company. To an extent, we’re doing what we always do – distilling our contemporary influences, trying to come up with new ideas.” Due around Christmas is a box set of the albums that this lineup made, with some bonus tracks. According to Duffield, “Stuff like the demo of Barbados, and the English version of Two Cabs To The Toucan we did whilst we were over there. The Cut Lunch EP was really just meant to be us getting some material together for our trip to England. It was released as a 10″ EP so there could be some ongoing interest in the band back here while we were overseas. We shot the film-clip right up to the moment we got on the plane.” Check out the clip for I Hear Motion.

Robbie Williams swings both ways, does it in pairs 

Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways, out November 15, is a sequel to 2011’s Swing When You’re Winning, his best selling album ever. The new one is a mix classics with six new songs written with Guy Chambers, who also produced. There are duets galore. The classics include Dream A Little Dream (with Lily Allen), I Wanna Be Like You(with Olly Murs) and Little Green Apples (with Kelly Clarkson). The newies include Soda Pop (with Michael Buble) and Swings Both Ways, written and performed with an unashamedly star-struck Rufus Wainwright.

Williams says, “First of all, I wanted to do a Swing album because I wanted to do a swing album. I always knew I’d do another and I think now is the perfect time to do it. I’m enjoying showbiz and I’m enjoying my life and my understanding of where I am now is that there needs to be an event every time I bring out a record. The album this time is a definite ode and a loving glance towards a period on the planet that I was never invited to ‘coz I wasn’t there…I wanted to be, which I feel still very strongly linked to.”