Join the livestream ↓
Today at 5PM we'll be kicking off our weekly stream broadcast, where we can all hang, chat, and listen to these records together live. All that action will be going down in our Discord, so make sure to join the only email with an afterparty.
This week on the HiFi ↓
“Happy Powders day to all who celebrate” -Baxter, Booking
Astra King - A Little Bit Closer
“Astra king is giving early PC music in a really refreshing way” -Mia, Socials
“She made this album before Feed The Beast and then got told she couldn’t release it!” -Mo, Marketing
“Here’s a Devo original that’s often thought to be a Nirvana song (Nirvana covered it on Incesticide)” -Adam, Production
Harmony - Shoplifting From Nike
“love that 1/2 of Girlpool is now making pop music” -Mo, Marketing
Sade - Cherry Pie (Henri Juno Edit)
“FOR THE SADE FANS” -Arianna, Booking
Melt-Banana - First Contact to Planet Q
“Life changing band. Still the best thing I’ve ever seen live.” -Seany, Ops
Róisín Murphy, DJ Koze - Fader
“Unbridled chemistry from these two on this whole LP.”
-Jai, Content
Little Simz, Cleo Cole - Woman (Flwr Chyld Flip)
-Nabila, Community Care
TSHA, Ellie Goulding and Gregory Porter - Somebody
-dis_aster_ous (aster ryan) on discord
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
-Archie, Special Events
-mike5170 on discord
Happy Powders day to all who celebrate.
Scene-scapes ↓
Nightcore - the 6-track primer
by Payton
Before hyperpop, there was nightcore — a micro-genre with the simple concept of speeding and pitching up tracks. That technique was pioneered by Norwegian students Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Soderholm in 2002 when they remixed "Nessaja" by Scooter, before later naming themselves "Nightcore." Their tracks eventually got re-uploaded to YouTube, and countless imitations became so mainstream that they would go on to influence artists like Laura Les from 100 gecs. Certain sonic signatures echo in the hyperpop sound, but the term "nightcore" gradually faded on platforms like TikTok and was replaced by "sped-up remixes”. The rapid-fire nature of the genre made it perfect for TikTok's short sound bites, and once again kicked off the nightcore revival.
CMTEN, Glitch Gum - NEVER MET! (100 gecs r3mix)
Thundercat - Them Changes (Sped Up)
Keshi - UNDERSTAND (Sped Up)
Yameii Online - Baby My Phone
mazie - dumb dumb (Sped up)
aldn - glittr
Before hyperpop, there was nightcore.
Curated Playlist ↓
Ahead of a massive night in The Hall, Dutch producer and DJ Jarreau Vandal brings us a curated playlist loaded with fun house flips, bangin' amapiano and NY drill galore –
