I started writing this music to try and start a new project - basically. I’ve grown into a different person, and Flux Pavilion didn’t really grow with me for quite some time. That was exactly what I wanted to do at that age.
I started Flux when I was 19 and loved jumping around getting really drunk and playing parties. How have you evolved from that former version of yourself? As long as people listen to it, it’s not for me to say what it should be defined as. I just rode along with it - because I felt that it was too much energy to fight how people classified my music. The dubstep label with Flux Pavilion became this thing that was synonymous with my DJ sets and not actually with my music. I kind of carried on playing in a dubstep world, but all of my tracks never really felt like anyone else’s. Back in the early days, people were quick to say that my music wasn’t dubstep, because it didn’t really fit into what dubstep was. I think it will only be a shocking change for people who don’t know what Flux Pavilion is all about.” What did you mean by that?įlux Pavilion has been, for all intents and purposes, a dubstep act without really any dubstep. In November you tweeted, “This new album is the most honest to myself thing I’ve ever written. Here, Steele talks with Billboard about his new music, his evolution and how acknowledging his depression helped him to transcend it. “That has never been so untrue as this album now.” “Ten years on, if you say ‘Flux Pavilion’ to a regular person, they’re like “Oh, a dubstep guy,” says Steele. He still spends time reading fantasy books and playing Dungeons & Dragons, but the guy who loved getting drunk and raging around the stage in 2010 has transformed into a wise, whip-smart father-to-be (Steele and his wife are expecting their first child) who’s removed the constraints from his creative process. Therapy and antidepressants helped him make music that he feels like is an accurate representation of the person he’s evolved into after a decade in the scene. wav that Steele - whose anxiety often led to pre-show panic attacks in festival bathrooms - realized he’d actually been struggling with depression for much of his life. That feeling, he says, is a sort of childlike boundlessness, laced with a melancholy that’s long been familiar to him. He then had an epiphany: while his new music sounds very different than his era-defining hits like “I Can’t Stop,” the feeling this new music gave him was the same as he got from his heavier, earlier stuff. Having delved deeper into playing guitar and keyboards and singing live, Steele was ready to quit Flux Pavilion and launch a new project.
Little Boudicea was born on Saturday at 8:57amĮxpect an album of ambient baby music coming soon. We hope that Flux Pavilion and his wife enjoy their time as new parents, and are wishing nothing but the best for everyone.
He also stated that fans should ‘expect an album of ambient baby music coming soon’, and although that is likely a joke we think that it would sound pretty cool. Posting an adorable photo of him, his wife and his newborn at the hospital, other producers took to congratulating him such as Modestep, Moksi and Funtcase among many others. She was known as heroic and powerful, so this name is fitting and beautiful for their child. The meaning of the name is ‘victory’, named after the queen of the Iceni who lead a massive army of Britons against the Romans. Taking to Twitter to tell his fans the good news, he has revealed that his baby’s name is Boudicea. Now, he has welcomed his baby in to the world. In addition to this, he also premiered his new show in a virtual format in partnership with Moment House (you can check out our review of that right here). Known as his departure from dubstep, the album saw him take a more melodic approach which featured him singing and playing live instruments. In January to kick off the year strongly, he released his newest studio album ‘. This year is off to a strong start for the producer, real name Joshua Steele. Congratulations are certainly in order for Flux Pavilion, as he has just celebrated the birth of his child with his wife.
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