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Oliver Tank Admits He's Not In Same League As Flume Or Chet Faker

29 June 2013 | 10:11 am | Matt O'Neill

"I’ll hopefully be up there one day."

Oliver Tank laughs at the suggestion that he's in any way affiliated with Sydney's Flume or Melbourne's Chet Faker. At this point, it's perhaps a justifiable reaction. Over the past 12 months, both Flume and Faker have taken Australian electronic music to a level of commercial success and popular awareness far beyond what anyone would have predicted. But, Oliver Tank's career began with the same movement.

“It's flattering. I don't know if I'd consider myself to be in the same league as the Flumes and the Chet Fakers. Maybe in their infancy I was. I'll hopefully be up there one day, anyway,” he laughs. “I do think electronic production's been so down-skilled and become so much cheaper to do has just made it that kids are now learning production in the way kids used to learn guitar growing up. I think that's what it comes down to, really.”

Tank delivered his debut EP Dreams in late-2011. Since then, he's performed alongside Megan Washington and Active Child at the Sydney Opera House, toured to the UK (where he played both the Liverpool Sound Conference and The Great Escape), performed as part of Brisbane's BIGSOUND conference and enjoyed strong headline shows across both Australia and the UK.

The key difference between Tank and his peers is that he didn't actually release any new material over that period. While his career appeared to be taking off, Tank was in actuality struggling with writer's block and a series of undisclosed personal issues that kept him away from making music for nearly a year. It's only in recent months he's managed to pull himself back into the studio.

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