What even is "Pop" music? It's what's "Popular" at the time, hence the abbreviated "Pop". But here's the catch: I'm not exactly making music because I want it to be heard in a café or a restaurant, or see it climb to the top 40, I just want to make music with interesting textures. This presents a challenge for me to work with songs from two artists who work on very different ends of the Pop spectrum and create stylistically unconventional results out of them.

A few years back, I attempted an extended mix of the Years & Years song "King" in the Logic DAW installed on my old college's computers using some stems sourced from a link in a YouTube video. I never released it and at this point it's considered a "lost" remix. It's not a big loss since at that point I was only just beginning to develop my production skills and any tracks I made around that time mostly consisted of default presets found within the program. A few years later, I developed a much larger grasp of Ableton Live and how to make cool sounding stuff in it, so I decided to give the remix thing another go. This time, I flipped the original stems from Eighties style dance-pop to Dub Techno, bringing out the interesting textual elements. To speak in Basic Channel terms, It's the "Quadrant Dub" to King's "I'm Your Brother".

100 Gecs have taken the world by storm at this point. Their album “100 Gecs” absorbs Eurotrance, Ska, Trap and more into a sensory overloading mixture of madness which helped Hyperpop grow further in the music world. However, rather than stick to the formula of overbearing Auto Tune vocals and everything else, I decided to take stems they released of their goofy interlude, “I Need Help Immediately” and treat them as a sample pack. The result is what I would call a nightdrive IDM tune. The vocals still remain, but the overall tone turns from lighthearted goofs to a more disconcerting vibe. You might also get vague Skee Mask vibes by the end of it. I’m way too late to get a slot in the Tree of Clues at this point but that’s fine, I’m content with self releasing this anyway.

Bandcamp is a corporate owned platform now so in the event that this goes belly up, I'm likely going to repost it elsewhere.