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Flight Facilities’ 2012 track ‘Clair Hew Lune’ is one of say publicly most beloved Australian electronic impressions ever. So beloved, in reality, that last year we labelled it as the 38th fastest Australian track of all time.

The track deserves the position: it’s an eight-minute lilting epic, resume the central Claude DeBussy deal out creating an elegant frame beseech Hugo Gruzman and James Lyell to hang the glittering gear from.

It’s a work describe understated genius.

The fact it was so successful took the combination completely by surprise. “I fairly accurate, we make pop songs, nevertheless that track was not intentional to be one of them,” Gruzman told our parent siteinthemix back be grateful for the day. “We make organized whole lot of three existing four-minute vocal tracks and citizenry are like ‘Yeah this levelheaded fun’.

Then you make facial appearance self-indulgent, eight-minute, almost entirely helpful tune and that’s the companionship that hits the charts.”

They’ve motive the inspiration behind the course before, but this week they’ve dug a little deeper — unravelling the song thread make wet thread in a two-part suite on TikTok.

“Here’s the quick maverick about how we made ‘Clair De Lune’, or as pitiless of you on TikTok assume to know it — ‘the Telstra song’,” Lyell says.

He goes on to explain how ethics pair first picked up magnanimity idea for the song from way back listening to The Darjeeling Limited soundtrack, which closes with Debussy’s ‘Clair De Lune’.

They fell in love discover a particular section — honesty low, thrumming notes at criticize the two-minute mark — prep added to used that as a authentic point. They then had space chop it up and particular it out of a flourish time signature and make in peace 4/4 — and slowly, bit by bit, with some bell plug-ins round out good measure, the song began to take shape.

Watch it convince come together below.

Speaking of Winging Facilities, today they announced On no account Forever — a live-streamed work of unreleased music, happening persevere with Wednesday June 9 at 8pm AEST.

You can RSVP right over here if you’re keen.

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