El Guincho - Hiperasia (2016)

Hiperasia marks the return of one of Spain's most noted producers after achieving international recognition with his first album Alegranza (2007) and his sophomore mega hit Pop Negro (2010). "I started Pop Negro in 2008..... I've even forgotten some of the lyrics! Things have happened to me since that record which have left more of a mark on me than that album..... everything I record gets released, and it's been that way since I was young; I'm lucky of course, but it also enslaves you". The immediate impression on the listener to Hiperasia is its abrupt, almost violent, enhanced, futuristic sound. "I thought of making music that pushes itself. I like music that seems to move inwards, from its sides towards its own centre. As if it were actively trying to become mono but some force, which is usually something prominent like a 808 or a voice, expands to push those sounds sideways". Thus from a simple song based around one or two ideas, you will find intrusions - "Tutti frutti", as Pablo explains: "We can throw bombs in, firecrackers - sounds, other songs which poke through for a moment.... whatever you want".