I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

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• Floyd Skloot:

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• Floyd Skloot:

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• Flume:

  I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

• Flume:

  What it is now is basically I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an in

• Flume:

  Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.