Flume – The Coronet, London 15/11/13

Having sold out two shows at London’s Heaven in July, Flume returned to the capital this evening to play to a bigger crowd, at a bigger show, with bigger lights and a bigger line-up – an ‘all-nighter’ featuring the likes of Bondax and Ryan Hemsworth.

Arriving onstage a cool thirty minutes later than scheduled, Sydney’s Flume (real name Harley Edward Streten) is greeted by a packed out, overtly ecstatic crowd who are fully prepared to lose their collective minds. Kicking things off with the “Intro” to his new deluxe edition mixtape before quickening the pace with a series of smooth track transitions, his signature beats and flickering background animations constantly change the mood of the set, commanding a reaction from the crowd each time.

Some new material is aired but it is consistently the well loved and familiar favourites that prove themselves highlights. “Holdin On” is welcomed with the most electric reaction that flows right through the heart of the crowd and sees every person dancing as if their life depended upon it. Similarly, “Insane” lives up to its name and is accompanied by the most impressive background projections of the evening – all bizarre, colourful abstract shapes and female figures.

Yet, the whole show is more than a great cacophony of brazen beats, but one you can tell has been carefully crafted with space to breath – its more ambient moments, such as “Change” and “Ezra”, proving just how necessary it is to bring the pace down.

The last section of the set is introduced as the “Hip-Hop section” and pushes the crowd back over that frenzied edge. A fantastic remix of Hermitude’s “Hyperparadise” ushers in a surge of energy that had been absent for a few tracks, pushing the set to its glorious climax. The light show goes into overdrive, all hands are thrown into the air and the bass reverberates around the room, rising from the vibrating floor straight through the bodies of the gathered crowd.

Flume finally departs the stage after an impressive encore airing of his remix of Disclosure’s “You and Me” against an intimate backdrop video featuring two lovers kissing and, despite some peoples obviously discomfort, it’s a rapturously high note to end the evening upon.

Already huge in Australia and New Zealand, Flume’s popularity is only going from strength to strength. And though there are points tonight that see the crowd’s attention drop somewhat, the man himself sums things up pretty well with the end of set exclamation “You guys are f-cking nuts!” With his hands in his hair, it seems that the realisation of just what he has created has finally hit him.